The Ark Is Opening: How We’re Re-reading the Lennox—One Latin Charter at a Time Ark Article — September 7, 2025 • The Lennox Chronicles If you’ve ever felt that Scottish clan history leaves the most important women unnamed and the crucial relationships unexplained—you’re not wrong. The records do exist. They were simply written in Latin, scattered across 12–19th-century printed cartularies, and rarely translated in full. That’s exactly what the Lennox yDNA & Charter Ark (“the Ark”) is fixing. I’m building a permanent, searchable, citation-first repository that aligns verbatim Latin with plain-English translations , then ties each entry to people , lands , and—where possible— Y-DNA lines . My AI research partner “ Arty ” (Arthur MacArtair) handles the heavy lifting: indexing names, witnesses, dowries, resignations, tenures, and kinship terms across thousands of pages. I still have to track down and upload the sources, but once they’re in the Ark, Arty helps translate and...