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Isle of Arran Heritage Museum
Found this museum that offers genealogical research services related to historical residents of Arran. Once the project’s research is sufficiently completed, we’ll hand it over to the museum to see what they can add. Continue reading
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The McMillans of Arran
Found another article with interesting information on the Highland Clearances. This one written by a descendant of John McMillan, a member of one of the families we’re researching. We’ll be contacting the author of this article to share information from the Archibald project and see if the author has anything more to add. Continue reading
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Clearances of Arran
Information (and possibly images) from this article (subscription required) will be used in an Appendix section on the Clearances. This painting, in particular, would be appropriate for the Appendix. Citation: “Painting of an Arran family being ‘Cleared’, courtesy of the Sannox Centre, Arran.” Continue reading
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Isle of Arran Map – 1824
This 1824 map of Scotland found at the National Library of Scotland will serve as the basis for the project’s family-specific maps used in the report and, possibly, the wall chart as well. The map will be cropped and modified in MS PowerPoint, adding semi-transparent labels to note the towns relevant to the history of Continue reading
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The Memorandum Book of Anthony De Hooges
One of the great pleasures of the Westfall project was finding Dirk Mouw’s book The Memorandum Book of Anthony De Hooges which provides English translations of the many notes the young De Hooges recorded while at the Rensselaerswyck colony. One of my favorites was a 1647 note about seeing a white whale in the Hudson Continue reading
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Map of Westfall Ancestors in New Amsterdam
One of my favorite pages in this project is Appendix G – Westfall Ancestors in New Amsterdam – 1660. For one thing, I love old maps and I like working them into reports where I can. I also like presenting individual biographical information in a larger context, whether that’s in the context of outside historical Continue reading
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