April 30, 2015Here are some new resources to be taken away, the first on the nature of civil society in medieval Scotland, and two others on the Ulster Plantation which began roughly speaking at the beginning of the 17thC though some preliminary attempts at colonization were made earlier. Since so many members of this FTDNA section are descendants of the Plantation Scots (Scotland ==> Ulster ==> Appalachia), its not a surprise that many wish to know more about these people who were largely drawn from long established agrarian populations in southwest Scotland.Land, Law and People in Medieval Scotland, by Cynthia J. Neville. Edinburgh University Press, 2010, 265 pp. This book examines in an exemplary academic fashion the records, such as they are, pertaining to civil legal matters such as land title in the period 1100 - 1400 AD. !TZJ1UbYZ!3V8RAv8cDTUeNHwFYkLOp2-7ysVcaoBO1LcVGGxWYKUThe second item is THE major work on the Ulster Plantation, THE MIGRATION OF SCOTS TO ULSTER DURING THE REIGN OF JAMES l by M.B.E. Perceval Maxwell, a PhD thesis defended in 1966 at McGill University in Montreal. This is the original typescript version which runs to more than 1100 pages of intense detail. The volume has been republished a couple of times the last time being as a trade hardback no doubt with some revisions along the way. !GMJEVb6D!_4KXCvXnK8adyWk2gQKpwTrDTvVHgMqXPML15l3H5-4The third item is a short article on the Ulster Plantation which has been posted on Academia site. It is in Word docx format and appears to be a term paper for a graduate history course. It covers the main points in easily accessible language. Timothy E. Miller, THE ULSTER PLANTATION: 1556-1640, dated November 6, 2012 when it was submitted to someone named Dr. Jacob Selwood who was running History 8260 somewhere in the Western World. It runs to 35 pp. including notes. !mMwSSIAb!1-WkEqPEetHM5XQRDSfDVE_yMwuH6kef4cbvbuK12wc
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Here is a copy of a very recent book by Jean Manco, Ancestral Journeys, 2013 Its the product of years of reading and writing. It integrates archeology, linguistics and genetics in a thoroughly accessible fashion to describe the settlement of Western Europe by migration in the post-glacial period. The author has provided one of the most extensive bibliographies I have ever seen in any scholarly book. Lots of half-tone maps and photos some of which did not fare well in the scanning process. I paid particular attention to the chapter on dairy farmers because lactose tolerance is a large part of the success of some genetic collectives as opposed to other groups that were not so fortunate. It turns out to be a mutational loss of a gene which in the otherwise normal course of human events turns off lactose tolerance at age about 4 years thus enforcing weaning and making possible subsequent fertility. Lifelong dairy eaters are bigger and stronger and much healthier and that's an important part of the story. The segments on the discovery, development and spread of advanced metallurgy are also very important to grasp. All in all an illuminating read.On a much lighter note, there is John MacCulloch's Celtic Mythology. Its now more than 100 years old and recounts ancient Irish and Welsh legends of the fanciful kind. There are two versions available, the original that I obtained in .epub format and a .pdf I made by conversion. The latter is not at all elegant but the content is all there. If you have a Kindle, Calibre on your PC, or whatever, the .epub formatted version is by far preferable. -%20John%20MacCulloch.pdf 2ff7e9595c
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