Thanks, Brian, for the excellent reading list. There are at least three books on your list (Cromie, Perceval-Maxwell, & Robinson) that I must read immediately. I'm trying to understand and trace my mother's Beattie family from the Scottish lowlands and borderlands to Ulster, probably in the early 17th century (just conjecture), thence to Newbliss in County Monaghan where I found record of them in 1830 and from where they emigrated to Quebec, Canada, in 1838, then to the United States in 1870. Were they Reivers when they were in Scotland and possibly expelled to Ulster? Gosh, I hope so because that will spice up the family history, won't it? I'm fortunate to live in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, which has both a private college (Franklin and Marshall College, what could be more American?) and a public university (Millersville University of Pennsylvania), and both of them have fine libraries. I worked in the first and my wife worked in the second, both as librarians. Now we can access their library catalogs online: ain't this technology stuff grand? Thanks for your fine booklist.