I'm pleased to say that this website will now be home to a series of notes I've been keeping on Scottish immigrants to the new world who were probably or definitely of royal descent. You can find these underneath the "Scottish Immigrants" tab at the top of the screen. Eventually this will include a separate page containing notes for each immigrant, but at the moment only a few of these are live. I hope to gradually add more over the coming months.
Please do let me know if this material is useful and, particularly, if there's an immigrant or immigrants on the index page whose details you'd like me to load sooner rather than later. I'm happy to accommodate individuals' research interests and am also curious to see which immigrants attract the most attention.
In due course I also hope to say something on this blog about what it might mean that so many immigrants to the new world descended from a single medieval royal family and how that should encourage us to rethink some of the concepts underlying the genealogical fascination with "gateway ancestors" and "royal descents".
Copyright © 2014 Kelsey Jackson Williams
Please do let me know if this material is useful and, particularly, if there's an immigrant or immigrants on the index page whose details you'd like me to load sooner rather than later. I'm happy to accommodate individuals' research interests and am also curious to see which immigrants attract the most attention.
In due course I also hope to say something on this blog about what it might mean that so many immigrants to the new world descended from a single medieval royal family and how that should encourage us to rethink some of the concepts underlying the genealogical fascination with "gateway ancestors" and "royal descents".
Copyright © 2014 Kelsey Jackson Williams
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