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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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Digitizing data from the 1696 Aberdeenshire Poll Book
Title page, List of Pollable Persons within the Shire of Aberdeen. 1696. Volume Second., printed in Aberdeen by William Bennett on behalf of the Spaulding Club in 1844 | Internet Archive The poll tax When we hear of a poll tax in the United States, thoughts turn to our sordid history of Jim Crow systemic…
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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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The Cromar-Robb line I: progress and methods
And to think this is still a work in progress as of this writing: the Cromar-Robb Hypothesis tree under construction. With 7 out of 9 generations finished, it may only be about 50% complete. Note the impossibly dense parent-child linkages in a tree of this magnitude, as well as the consistent generational growth pattern seen…
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Ron Cromar and me
I’m hazarding a guess that Ron Cromar passed away around 2016 or not long thereafter, based on the dates of internet accounts and chatroom activity that I’ve run across in my research. In the 2012 article accompanying the picture above, it mentions that he was living and working in Banchory, well east of Aboyne but…
