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The trouble with GEDCOM
A school of red herring in a sea of bias The vitriol spewing forth from the mouths of this year’s edition of authoritarian U.S. presidential candidates is a veritable school of red herring swimming in a vast sea of bias. We have actual problems to solve that this gang is deliberately avoiding. There is a…
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Digitizing the 1696 Aberdeenshire Poll Book: Volume 2 complete!
For an account of Volume 1 and the development of the searchable database, visitDigitizing data from the 1696 Aberdeenshire Poll Book Voilá! Or, perhaps more appropriately in Scots Gaelic: Mar sin! My Canadian cousins have completed the digitization of the List of Pollable Persons within the Shire of Aberdeen. The data for Volume 2 is…
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Kirkton of Aboyne and Environs in 1696: a new old map
Time is the Space that may not be seen. — William Emerson From Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon, p. 326 At the beginning of my last post, Mapping 1696: Cromars and Robbs in the Poll Book, I imagined what an incredible map could be produced by synthesizing historical map information and place-name orthographic study with the…
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Mapping 1696: Cromars and Robbs in the Poll Book
Of all the maps I’ve researched, this one expresses the least ambiguous geographic relationship between Aboyne, Formaston, and Kirkton of Aboyne, with the Tarland Burn clearly running between Aboyne and Formaston. This informs my theoretical distinction and placement on an evolving new map of the Aberdeenshire Poll Book. Mapmaker: Gordon, Robert, 1580-1661 Title: The draught of the…
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Digitizing data from the 1696 Aberdeenshire Poll Book
Title page, List of Pollable Persons within the Shire of Aberdeen. 1696. Volume Second., printed in Aberdeen by William Bennett on behalf of the Spaulding Club in 1844 | Internet Archive The poll tax When we hear of a poll tax in the United States, thoughts turn to our sordid history of Jim Crow systemic…
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“New” information on Kirkton of Aboyne
A Scottish collaborator I have a new collaborator in Scotland: a cousin whose relation to me stems from George Cromar 1735, son of Peter Cromar 1690 and younger brother to Robert 1717. She sent me an image of a map of Kirkton of Aboyne which I can say is supremely helpful for our upcoming visit…
