About this book: The Scottish Blue Family in North America traces the story of several large colonies of Blues who emigrated from Argyll in Scotland from the 1740s to the 1850s to North Carolina, New York, and Canada. They have been stable families, leaving a wealth of documentary sources, which have made these years of intensive research relatively easy. This volume is a massive revision of one composed by the same author in 1982. This new one is double the size of the original (now containing about 1850 pages, including an index of some 28,500 names). In many cases, lines of descent are traced unbroken for three centuries. Historical context—including stories we know to be reliable—is intertwined with the genealogies so as to put flesh and blood on the dry bones of names and dates. In addition to the fifteen different families of Scottish emigrants (to USA and Canada), two prominent African-American families are also traced, whose ancestors were connected with the NC Blues.