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Migrations II: first forays out from Aboyne
A guilty pleasure I’ve made no secret of one of my deeply guilty pleasures: watching Outlander. You’ll find this show somewhere in a demonic Venn diagram intersecting Downton Abbey, Game of Thrones, World on Fire, and H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine, with some generic beach-read romance novel love scenes bordering on female-gaze porn thrown…
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Robert vs. Robert vs. Robert Cromar and Jannet Dun: turmoil in Scotland
AUTHOR’S NOTE: New information and research has invalidated certain conclusions about the identity of John Cromar in this post. You may read about this development at Ann Cromar redux — or reconsidered? and at Ron Cromar and me. Because this journal is about the real-time process of researching and developing a family history hypothesis, and not the hypothesis itself, I have decided to…
