Canadian, educated in Scotland, now living near Chicago; master's thesis on Scottish emigration to the Canadian frontier; working as a reference librarian specializing in genealogy and local history. I am a member of the United Empire Loyalists Association of Canada, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and historian with both North American associations of Clan Macalister as well as the clan centre in Kintyre. I am currently transcribing the Dewar Manuscripts for the Friends of the Argyll Papers project.