Thank you to those who have donated their time, expertise and patience to help me with transcribing documents for the ADM 8 Database Project. This project could not happen without these volunteers.
Valla is the University Archivist and Classics, History and Philosophy librarian at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta. She graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Arts in History a Master of Library and Information Studies and a Master of Archival Studies. She also recently completed a post-master's certificate in Digital Archives and Records Management from San Jose State University's School of Information. Her professional interests include archival outreach and advocacy and digital preservation.
Darren S. Layne received his PhD from the University of St Andrews and is creator and curator of the Jacobite Database of 1745, a wide-ranging prosopographical study of people concerned in the last rising. His historical interests are focused on the mutable nature of popular Jacobitism and how the movement was expressed through its plebeian adherents. He is a passionate advocate of the digital humanities and of creating organizational methods for historical data and metadata. Darren can be found on Twitter, as can the Jacobite Database Project.