i need to know about these historic people

[TheAndersonClan]

i need all there is to know bout william wallace rob roy and robert the bruce also i need to know if the anderson clan fought along side any of them

[macwilkin]

i need all there is to know bout william wallace rob roy and robert the bruce also i need to know if the anderson clan fought along side any of them

Visit your local library, and ask one of the librarians to help you find a few books -- start off with Alan Young's In the Footsteps of William Wallace and In the Footsteps of Robert the Bruce.

Regards,

T.

[brandycr]

You have the power of the internet behind you.Go to google put the names in and there you are.

[Scratchy's Lass]

i need all there is to know bout william wallace rob roy and robert the bruce also i need to know if the anderson clan fought along side any of them

My maternal line is Anderson, at least, back through my great grandfather.

How far into your research are you at this point?

I'd be happy to tell you what (and it's not alot) I know about my mother's Anderson aspect, if you like.
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[macwilkin]

You have the power of the internet behind you.Go to google put the names in and there you are.

The reference librarian says: "Beware the power of the Internet, especially when working on a school assignment!"

T.

[Erisianmonkey]

The reference librarian says: "Beware the power of the Internet, especially when working on a school assignment!"

T.

And the frustrated college student says remember that even when working with books from a library, the three keys to research are: verify, verify, verify!

[macwilkin]

And the frustrated college student says remember that even when working with books from a library, the three keys to research are: verify, verify, verify!

Amen, Amen, Amen. Here endeth the lesson.

T.

[Mike1]

Todd, I agree with you. There's no substitute for primary source information.

The unfortunate part of trying to research the life of Wallace is that the primary source would be Blind Harry. Virtually anything written about Wallace needs to be prefaced with "Maybe" or "Possibly".

[Dirk Skene]

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[auld argonian]

I've probably told this story before but it bears repeating when discussing researching history...and the librarians amongst us will, no doubt, get a kick out of it.

A teacher of mine once related the tale of Mungo Diddylyyp, the famous Welsh theatre critic of the Eighteenth Century. You've never heard of ol' Mungo?

This all took place at a certain Midwestern University in a large Midwestern City. Faced with one of those assignments from hell and being obliged to cite at least three PRIMARY sources on theatre in Wales in the Eighteenth Century, my old instructor found himself stymied. His buddy (or should I say accomplice) came up with a masterful plan: they would cook up a phoney primary source...now we all know that this has been done before...it was even being done in the Age Before The Internet (also known as B.G. or Before Google). The twist was that the buddy had a buddy who worked in the University library and the logic was this: no professor ever actually checked a student's sources personally...he assigned a grad student to do the grunt work. The grad student wasn't going to actually check the stacks for the book...he would only check the card catalog (remember those?) to see if the book had a card. Now here's the nasty part...just to ensure that even if the grad student got ambitious and actualy was going to check the stacks, the one area that was almost impossible for any body to get access to was the rare book vault.

Thus was born a card for the catalog for "Playes of Wayles" authored by none other than the intrepid (and non-existant) Mungo Diddylyyp...a rare, one of a kind manuscript that was locked securely in the rare book vault. The card was surreptitiously placed in the card catalog by the buddy who worked in the library.

The ruse went off without a hitch...the papers were submitted, graded and the culprits (both of them, actually) went on to graduate and teach at my high school.

...and the best part? Years later it was deemed necessary to do an inventory of the rare book collection and it was found that Mungo's "Playes of Wayles" was missing and assumed stolen. A modest reward was offered for its return. My teacher and his buddy were tempted to sit down, write the book, return it and claim the reward but I guess that they finally figgerred that it would be too much trouble.

Primary sources...how many do ya want?

Best

AA