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Charles Robb Cromar, Jr. | 10-22-37 — 10-23-22
Below is a draft of the eulogy I will deliver at my father’s funeral this coming Saturday. It is published here to honor his memory. He passed away at the age of 85 years and 2 hours. He came to visit us in Philadelphia last Christmas with my sister Paige and her husband Greg. It…
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Refining the itinerary for Aberdeenshire
Time doesn’t permit a long and carefully edited post this week. We are busy, one month away from our journey, tweaking and refining our study-abroad day in Aberdeenshire, which I am dubbing the “Aberdeenshire Archaeology Tour.” Many sites in this area close down for touring after October, and this necessarily limits what we can do.…
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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…
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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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On returning to Scotland (again and again)
Yes, it has been a LONG hiatus from journaling, and I have left many promises from prior posts unfulfilled. I have, at least, one excuse: we are quite busy preparing for our study-abroad journey to Scotland — again! Just as I intend to keep our promise to get students to Scotland, I intend to keep…
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Migrations I: from Aboyne to the four corners of the earth
Dunedin On the east coast of New Zealand’s South Island lies the small city of Dunedin (duh-NEE-din), named in honor of the capital of Scotland, Edinburgh (ED-in-bur-ah , not eed-in-burg), which is confusing unless you are aware of the Gàidhlig name of that ancient city: Dùn Èideann (tun-EE-chin). There are other Dunedins in the world…
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