Castles, Glasites, and the Widow of Annat

Castles, Glasites, and the Widow of Annat

by B. Short

| Charity, glasites, Hey Genealogists, lodges, perth, scotland, Syndicated
February 28, 2018

Okay. When we last left off, we had determined that Robert Milner Morrison was a cousin living in the house of an Alexander Moody and Jessie Stuart along with their children. But we didn’t really know how exactly Robert was related to these people or to whom specifically. We researched Alexander Moody and Jessie Stuart’s […]
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A Son Elaborates and Clarifies

by B. Short

| East India Company, genealogy, gumshoeing, Hey Genealogists, Syndicated, the great disruption
February 20, 2018

Dad’s last post encapsulates a lot of what I loved listening to while he was doing all of that research. First, it included a lot of the crazy, insane-seeming, ultra-detail-oriented fine-tooth-comb gumshoeing that dad always seemed so good at. Sorting through handwritten census records to find a name that had been misspelled (sort of!) a […]
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A Dad Defends His Position

by B. Short

| Begum Samru, genealogy, go back and trace your steps, Hey Genealogists, Lord Cornwallis, Presbyterian Free Church, Syndicated
February 4, 2018

In a previous post we had discovered that my wife’s ancestor Robert Milner Morrison did not have a bust in the lobby of the University of Edinburgh, but we also found out that he had graduated from there and taught at the university for a time in the late 1870s and early 1880s. In addition, […]
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A Son Digresses into Outer Space

by B. Short

| genealogy, Hey Genealogists, History of Earth, National Geographic, Syndicated, Theia planet
January 28, 2018

Here’s a digression, riffing off of what dad put into his last post. For me, when I’m thinking about questions like “How did we get here?”, the ones that dad was pondering about in that last blog update, my brain shoots all the way back to the beginning. Not necessarily to the Big Bang, which […]
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A Dad Reflects on the Research Process

by B. Short

| Awkward moments pistoning us towards clarity, genealogy, Hey Genealogists, Metaphysics, Missions statements, Syndicated, Why I Write
January 28, 2018

So at this point in our adventure we know that my wife’s ancestor Robert Morrison got a degree and a doctorate from the University of Edinburgh (so now we can refer to him as Dr. Robert Morrison). We also know that he was born in St. Thomas, USVI, which stands for United States Virgin Islands. […]
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A Son Remembers Scotland

by B. Short

| braveheart, genealogy, go back and trace your steps, Hey Genealogists, irvine welsh, macbeth, scotland, Syndicated, trainspotting, william wallace
January 21, 2018

I didn’t really know much about Scotland before we went there. Or I knew what everybody knew. I knew Braveheart and I knew Trainspotting and I knew, what, Macbeth, I guess. I had read Irvine Welsh’s breakout novel in college when it was recommended to me by a friend as “the greatest novel ever written.” After […]
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A Dad Solves One Mystery and Discovers Another

by B. Short

| Edinburgh Castle, genealogy, helpful librarians, Hey Genealogists, Holyroodhouse, not so helpful librarians, scotland, Syndicated, University of Edinburgh
January 21, 2018

This post is continuing the story from Ed’s last post. Our family headed to Edinburgh, Scotland, for a two-week vacation partly to find out if my wife’s ancestor Robert Morrison had a bust in the lobby of the University of Edinburgh. The bust’s existence was according to family lore. The 1891 Winnipeg Canada census showed […]
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A Son Suggests, Hey, Let’s Get This All Down on Paper

by B. Short

| antiques roadshow, finding your roots, genealogy, Hey Genealogists, Syndicated, who do you think you are?
January 9, 2018

So I want to talk all about that Scotland trip—about what it was like and what it meant for me and what I thought it meant for the family—but I think there’s just a little bit more table setting that should be done in terms of how we got to this point. Because this project […]
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A Dad Explains How He Got Into Genealogy

by B. Short

| genealogy, go back and trace your steps, Hey Genealogists, scotland, Syndicated
January 2, 2018

It all started as a family story from my mother-in-law. Many times she had recounted a family story regarding her former husband’s family. The story went that there was a bust of one of my wife’s ancestors situated in the lobby of the University of Edinburgh. The story remained nothing more than a curiosity until […]
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A Son Asks, Why Do Genealogy?

by B. Short

| genealogy, go back and trace your steps, Hey Genealogists, Syndicated
January 2, 2018

Going down into my parents’ basement, the stairs go down, then a brief landing, then they go down the other way. Along the walls are displayed a series of maps, photographs, letters, articles, and advertisements that my father has collected over a decade of genealogical research, the images and words and posters following you down […]
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