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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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Day 0/1 – 13 & 14 June 2023: Our Journey Begins!
Second in a series of guest posts by Paige Cromar Davis Off to Scotland! The first leg of our journey to Scotland was a Delta flight from Cincinnati to New York’s dreaded JFK airport. We had decided ahead of time to pack light to avoid baggage claim or lost luggage issues on the outbound flights.…
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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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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…
