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The Howe of Cromar, Roy Military Survey of Scotland, 1747-55, <\/strong>collaged from the digital files at the National Library of Scotland








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I’m William Cromar. By day I’m an artist<\/a> and educator<\/a> exploring digital media, and in that capacity my nom de guerre is williamCromar. By night, I’m an extremely amateur genealogist living in Philadelphia PA USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This blog started in 2021, but the seeds for it were sown when my wife gifted me with a DNA ancestry kit. Years and much trial and error later, I feel confident enough in my research skills to document the journey of my family through time and place in this blog. I was inspired by the family history blogging work of Martin Robb<\/a>, who may in fact prove to be a distant relative. Martin borrowed a line from E. P. Thompson<\/a> which I thought so appropriate to describe the endeavor of family history generally that I had to borrow it from him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My family is no different than others\u2014we do have our share of famous and infamous ancestors, as does everyone\u2014but without the usual blather of living in the reflected glory of the illustrious and nefarious, we can say: every family’s story is worth telling. So, like my perhaps-cousin Martin, I am here not to boast of connections to Robert the Bruce or William Shakespeare, but instead to rescue my humble farmer and stone-mason ancestors from the “enormous condescension of posterity.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paying forward <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

One reason I began to commit this journal to the net is to pay forward all of the help I’ve received from others as I’ve pieced this family history together. I’ve learned so much from the efforts of so many, I hope that I can help others. If we share any family history and you happen upon this blog, please contact me. And even if you don’t, you may find some reasonable hints about genealogy that I sure do wish I knew about when I started!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s why I’ve created some resource pages in addition to the blog found at the home page:<\/p>\n\n\n\n