The Lennox Chronicles

  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...

DNA Over Deeds (With Charters):  E-BY5775 Linking Colquhoun, Kilpatrick & McCarter By Tiffany McCarter Evans — The Lennox Chronicles Plain-English takeaway: We match Y-DNA breadcrumbs (E-BY5775 and daughter branches) with page-cited medieval charters . When documents and DNA point the same direction, we build testable working theories —and we show our receipts so anyone can follow. What we’re doing (no jargon, promise) Y-DNA passes down the direct father-to-son line. Every so often it picks up a tiny mutation—call it a breadcrumb. Scientists give each breadcrumb a name (a SNP ). If a group of men share the same SNP, they usually share a distant paternal ancestor. Our project follows one breadcrumb cluster in the Lennox: E-BY5775 . We put charters (land grants, witness lists, place-names) beside modern Big Y-700 results . Where both sets of evidence agree, we have a testable working theory . Where they disagree, we adjust. That’s “ DNA Over Deeds—But Not Without Charters...

The Ark: A Living Document of the Lennox By Tiffany McCarter Evans, Clans of Scotland Historian For over 700 years, the lands of Loch Lomond and the Lennox have whispered their stories in charters, dowries, and fragments of parchment written in Latin ink. Until now, most of those whispers have been left untranslated, misunderstood, or worse — ignored. That changes here. Welcome to The Ark: A Living Document — this will be the first open, searchable, and scientifically grounded database where medieval charters and modern Y-DNA meet. This is not a hobby project. This is not just a clan fan club. This is history reconstructed from the ground up, sourced line by line, signature by signature, haplogroup by haplogroup. And yes, it is free. No memberships. No gatekeeping. No secrets. What’s Inside the Ark The Ark is not just for Colquhouns or McCarters. It is for anyone descended from the ancient Earls of Lennox. The charters inside stretch from 1100 AD through the 170...

  The Tears That Named a Monastery:  Scotland’s Earliest Charter Story by Tiffany McCarter Evans Imagine: ChatGPT AI Creation by Tiffany McCarter Evans Imagine Scotland before kings wrote Latin charters, before castles dotted the hills, and before surnames even existed.  The year is around A.D. 565 , and into the rugged northeast comes a monk with a fire in his eyes and a student at his side. The monk? Columcille — better known today as St. Columba , the Irish saint who founded Iona. The pupil? Drostan, son of Cosgrach , was destined to be remembered as the quiet saint of Aberdeenshire. Their destination? A patch of land in Buchan that would one day become Deer Abbey . The First Scottish “Charter” We call it a charter, but in truth it’s a miracle story, a legal note, and a folk etymology all rolled into one. It survives not in stone but scribbled into the margins of a gospel book — the Book of Deer , now one of Scotland’s national treasures. Here’s the tale:...