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Planning our trip to Scotland: Leveraging lessons from my brother, Bill
A guest travel blog by Paige Cromar Davis, sister of site owner, William “Bill” Cromar.
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Migrations III: Peter Cromar’s Milne, Buckner, and Esson descendancy lines in the Northeast
Author’s Note: After a long hiatus, I’m finally able to return to posting! I moved this website to a new domain and server, a time-consuming process and not for the faint of heart. But the results are worth it: no more ads, a new design, better support for multimedia, easier navigation. Did I mention no…
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Peter Cromar 1690 descendancy study is complete!
Six months Six months to the day after I received Ron Cromar’s notes from Paul Smillie, I finalized the descendancy study for our progenitor Peter Cromar. If you wish to cut right to the chase and see the results, you’ll notice a new link in the menu above: Database. As of this writing, the compilation…
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Anniversaries, outreach, and progress
Two anniversaries This is a big anniversary in a couple of ways, and while I don’t want to interrupt the flow of documentation this blog is intended to journal, it would respect the spirit of this work to include a brief mention. My mother’s passing First and foremost, this week marks the anniversary of my…
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Genealogical data and visual design II: mixing metaphors
In our previous post, we discussed Edward Tufte’s notions about the rich visual expression of data, and we introduced some basic metaphors used in genealogical diagramming: trees, fans, roads, timelines, quilts, and networks. We observed any one of these can express perhaps one or two classes of data very well, but often at the expense…
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Genealogical data and visual design I: metaphors in visualization
Will they tell your story? TimeWho lives, who dies, who tells your story? TimeWill they tell your story? TimeWho lives, who dies, who tells your story? — Lin-Manuel Miranda Genealogy is data… … but what does this data do? Well, for starters, it can tell your story. Data, alas, does not willfully do so. Left…
