Description

The chapter titles illustrate the main subjects covered:

Getting On the Ancestral Trail; Certificates, Censuses, and Spelling; Church Registers and Naming Traditions; Given Names and Nicknames; Surnames and Septs; Clans and Parent Kindreds; Charter Chests and Traditional Tales; Emigrants and Explorers; Soldiers, Sailors, and East Indiamen; Connecting Cousins and Coming Home to the Highlands.

The 21 appendices form an extensive guide to sources for clan & family history in the Highlands, listing and locating such things as church registers, valuation rolls, sasine registers, kirk session minutes, poor law records, burial grounds and transcriptions, archive centres, public libraries, clan centres, museums, and local heritage groups.