To understand Family History, to be able to research Family History successfully, it is very important to understand the Times of Our Ancestors.
The most important thing in all of life is our own personal family unit. Over the centuries the family as a unit has not changed much. The family that still prays together, and shares the good times and the bad times, still sticks together. But influences such as Religion, Patriotism, Wars, Famine and man's own inhumanity towards man, have exerted great and varying influences on our family circles.
I was dismayed recently at a Highland Gathering to find that some teenagers present thought that Scotland was always the romantic land of Clans, Laddies, Lassies, Bagpipes and flowing tartans. They knew nothing of the terrible times of the Great Irish Famine, or the horror of the Scottish Clearances, when some Chiefs turned on their own Clan People.
I hope that his book explains some of these less Romantic Times.
James McClelland, OAM
ISBN: 978-0-908492-60-2
A4 Comb Bound with laminated covers. 94 pages
