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Day 2: 15 June 2023 – “Cromar Day” with Kathy Ader of Wild History and Whisky Tours
Third in a series of guest posts by Paige Cromar Davis The Drive to Aboyne We set out early from Dunfermline and made our way north via the M90 to Perth, then A90 east through Dundee. So far, so good: the roads were easily navigable, and the roundabouts in Dundee were not hateful. Greg was…
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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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The pros and cons of the “one big tree”
I’ve recently been corresponding with a person in Canada who had come across their deceased father in the Cromar-Robb Hypothesis tree I authored using the Ancestry platform. They wanted to know how their father came to be listed in my tree, and what our connections might be. Using my tree, I traced our most recent…
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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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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…
