This book is based overwhelmingly on primary sources--including testaments, bonds, sasines, and tacks--found mainly in the National Archives of Scotland in Edinburgh and, to a lesser extent, the Stirling Archives. The sources have yielded the following bits of information on the alphabetically arranged inhabitants: name, occupation, name of a next of kin (spouse, father, etc.), the kind of record, and the source. In all, Dr. Dobson has brought to...