Continually keeping published editions up-to-date with on-going research and new findings is an impossible task. No sooner has a latest edition been released than a further trip to an archive yields […]

The Red Book of Clan Donnachaidh   The oldest written history of the chiefs of the Clan Donnachaidh was the ‘Red Book’ which, in the mid 1600s, was destroyed in […]

For those of us fortunate enough to have been born in this technological and scientific age the sheer extent of infant mortality in years gone by is immensely difficult if […]

George Essex Montifex Drummond was born on 3 September 1856 and was the only son of George Henry Charles Francis Malcolm Drummond, and grandson of George Drummond, Earl of Perth […]

  Charles Agathon Guiliame Oliphant was born in Holland, in 1811, as the only son of Carel Naret Oliphant. Achieving a good degree of success as a merchant, he settled […]

____________   Note: Not having done very much to this account for some time, and with no plans for continuing research, I thought I would make what was to hand […]

  It is always a great privilege to be involved in any petition whether for a Chiefship or a title, be it a Baronetcy, a Peerage, an Earldom or a […]

For those periods in time for which few parish registers survive, establishing precise dates of marriage can be a difficult task and therefore entries as these contained within Protocol Books […]

  The genealogy of the 16th century family of Edmonstone of Duntreath continually niggled away at me as, chronologically, what the evidence appeared to say didn’t quite fit as it […]

  I have noticed the existence of some confusion in relation to the antiquity of the family of Weir of Stanebyres. The assertion is that William Weir, younger son of […]