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The Backstory
Every good story has an origin myth, a meta-story that leads up to the major plot and fills in important details about the main characters and their circumstances. Since a backstory helps develop a fully realized fictional story world, surely it must be so for factual tales. So… Charles “Big Honey” Robb Cromar Sr. and…
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Mystery in the Howe of Cromar
Howe is a Scots term meaning “valley” or “hollow.” The Howe of Cromar is an enigmatic and distinctive oval impression in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and can easily be seen in a satellite image map. It is the ancestral home of the Cromar and Robb families, representing the pure Scottish roots of my paternal grandfather. My father…
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Welcome to Cromarbaile!
Cromarbaile is the successor site to Cromarville, founded in May 2021 to document travel and research activities into the origins of my family in Scotland. We “emigrated” from our old website in May 2023. If you’re new in town, visit About, then visit the Directory to peruse posts in three categories: Family History + Genealogy,…
