About this genealogy

An independent working genealogy of Clann Dubhgall Cheire, the Glengyle line of Clan Gregor. The baseline is Peter Lawrie's compilation at Glen Discovery, which this site keeps in automatic sync so that his corrections flow through. On top of that baseline the tree carries the keeper's own research: records merged or detached where the sources require it, notes on individual people, the chiefly succession, and a marking for the branches whose attachment rests on assumption rather than record.

Three layers

The section is built in three layers, each with its own job.

• The tree is the working view and the place to start. It shows one person's close family at a time: parents and grandparents above, partners alongside, siblings in the same row, children below. Click any card to make that person the focus. This is the only view that draws every layer together, and it is where the site's own work shows.
• The branch pages are the written argument for each branch: a descent diagram, prose, and footnotes to the records. They keep Glen Discovery's page structure, one page per branch, so that the sync stays simple. Each card in the tree carries an icon at the bottom right: a figure, which opens the person's own page where one has been written, or a page, which opens the branch page for that person.
• The branches map is the overview: every male-line descendant on one diagram, with the outline of the branch pages beneath it.
• The people pages are about one person each: a timeline of the events the records show, the source behind each event, and their close family. They are built from the keeper's research tree rather than from Glen Discovery, so they carry the evidence the branch pages summarise.

Reading the tree

• The round buttons on a card's edges show or hide that person's parents (top), siblings (left or right) and children (bottom). The toolbar can expand the whole tree, fit it to the window, show relationship labels, show the male line only, or show the chiefly succession only.
• A red connector marks the chiefly succession of Clann Dubhgall Cheire from one chieftain to the next. A dashed red connector marks a step that is provisional.
• Branches whose attachment rests on an assumption that Glen Discovery's own notes call into question are left out of the tree. They stay on their branch pages and on the branches map, drawn faded, and the departures page says which they are.
• A small sage tab over the top right corner of a card's photo area marks a local addition: a person who is not in Glen Discovery at all and comes from the keeper's own records.
• A speech-bubble icon opens a note on that person. Hovering over a card shows the full dates and places on record.
• The address bar follows the focus, so a link of the form /genealogy/?focus=<slug> opens the tree on that person.

Sources and sync

Glen Discovery publishes its genealogy as numbered web pages, one per branch. This site mirrors those pages as GEDCOM files, consolidates them into one tree, and regenerates the branch pages, the branches map and the tree from the result. When Peter Lawrie corrects a page, the mirror is updated and the correction flows through on the next run. Each branch page names the Glen Discovery page it is built on in a baseline line at the foot.

The keeper's own research sits in a separate layer that the sync never overwrites: a record per person for corrections, notes and the living flag, and a small set of tree edits for merges and detached links. Every place where that layer moves away from the baseline is listed, with its reason, on the departures page. Everything else in the tree is Glen Discovery's and should be credited to Peter Lawrie and the contributors he names.

Nothing here is proven in any strict sense. The baseline follows the parish registers where it can and informed guesswork where it cannot, and the branch pages say which is which.

Living people

People who may still be living appear by name only where they have agreed to it, and otherwise as a placeholder card that says the name is withheld, so that a line of descent can still be followed to someone who has agreed. No birth or death dates, marriages, residences, occupations or other personal details are published for them, in the tree, in the diagrams or in the diagram source. The same caution applies to recent records of people who have died: within the last hundred years the pages give the fact and the register reference, but no addresses, informants or causes of death. The full note, including the lawful basis and how to ask for a name to be removed, is on the branches map.