Re: Preston of Craigmillar

On Dec 2, 1:21 pm, WJhon...@xxxxxxx wrote:
Well you mistake my point-of-view.

As Leo says there are hunters and gatherers.  I'm a gatherer and so it  
should seem appropriate that I would not go chasing a single family to the  
detriment of my larger project which is to catalog all related families.

That some sources present it this way or that way, is a matter to be  
catalogued for future research.  But at the present, I'm still far away  from even
cataloguing all the Earls and Dukes, and so the finer details of minor  families
and the resolution of discrepancies has to wait.

My ultimate goal would be to find primary statements for each link and for  
that the A2A documents are quite head-and-shoulders above Burke's.  You  will
note that these are online for perusal which is what I suggested to our  
esteemed original-thread-creator and for which I'll probably have to wait until  I
should chance to do it myself.

So after long but now in short, I do do original research, or rather  
research in original documents, which you know quite well my dear, but which I'm  not
quite eager to do in this case, since we have a list-writer who could do it  
themselves, were they so inclined.

In particular it would be quite advantageous to us and the world, if  someone
were to catalog all the references to the Lord Dingwall which exist in  A2A
and if they bring anything new to the table (which I'm sure they  will)..

Will Johnson

"research in original documents", huh? Like Burke's Commoners, for
example? Or maybe the Visitations and Peerages which you recommended
earlier in this thread? Or maybe that excellent "original" document
Wikipedia?

And Leo's definition of hunters and gatherers is directly opposite to
the way you choose to use the terms. Leo's site says: "Hunters are
those who access primary sources and their findings are used by the
gatherers."

But this dialogue, such as it is, has reached the point of futility.
I wish you well in the noble effort of "my larger project which is to
catalog all related families" . Keep us informed of your progress
toward this goal. :-)

[BTW, only a small subset of "original documents" are on-line....]

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