Can you find the parents of Jas. Livingstone of Salt Lake City?

James Livingstone died in Salt Lake City, Utah Sept 1874. He had emigrated from Scotland some years before. Am I correct in assuming that his parents were William Livingstone and Margaret Galloway and that they had lived in Dalgety, Fife.Can you find the parents of Jas. Livingstone of Salt Lake City?
If you go do a search at http://www.familysearch.org for James Livingston (sp?) who died in 1874, the first result will be under a header titled "Ancestral File." If you click on that, and then Pedigree, you can see a near complete pedigree chart for him going back 4-5 generations into the 1600s in Scotland.



His parents are listed as:



James Livingston

Birth: 23 Mar 1783

Reidraw, Dalgety, Fife, Scotland

Christening: 30 Mar 1783

, Dalgety, Fife, Scotland

Death: 27 Jul 1839

Scotland



and



Christian Livingston

Birth: 14 Feb 1789

Fordel, Dalgety, Fife, Scotland

Christening: 25 Mar 1789

Death: 12 Oct 1876

Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah



Good luck,

Dave

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I have searched for him and I found, he was born on 30th August 1828, in Dalgetty Fife in Scotland, he died 23rd September 1874. www.familysearch.org show his mum and dad to be James and Christian Livingstone both born in Dalgetty , Fife Scotland. Hope this helps Tom mamsgel1956@yahoo.co.ukCan you find the parents of Jas. Livingstone of Salt Lake City?
Odd question, given UT and SLC history it's a "given" that James would be listed at familysearch.org - and that anyone questioning that would have known where to look.



The problem is that so many of the ancestral files are rife with poor genealogical research and others copy the bad work wholesale *because* they found it at LDS. Bah!
NO hostility intended, but NO- you would not be correct in ever "assuming" something in good genealogical circles.

As immediately shown by replies... you are coming up with one set of parents, and other "files" show something else. Unless you (or others) have researched for a while, you can't imagine how common that really is. I know of mistakes in every single online location, and many offline sources.

My advice is to step back and EVALUATE the source of your information, compared to the other listings. Hopefully, the others will have provided what they are using as a source to back up their conclusion.

It is quite possible that Mr Livingstone was prominent enough to appear in a biography or other historical record, in which his parents were stated. There may be other original records available, in Utah or in Scotland. There might be a family Bible. The answers below MAY be correct, or it may be that you found some source that shows the earlier researchers to have jumped to a false conclusion.

I thoroughly love the internet, but also realize that many researchers have a false sense of security, in that they easily find someone else's research, and never have the opening to discover how to verify their findings. I learned this lesson pre internet, after proudly discussing the parentage of one ancestor, taken from a published (professional) source. A few months later, I found court documents showing the conclusion to be completely wrong. I was red-faced for a while for having shared it, but it sure taught me something about how to back up my conclusions.

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