About the Author

Cornelia Wendell Bush is a Genealogist and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. She has served as Clan Historian for the Clan MacRae of North America, and as the County Historian of her native Orange County, New York. She is active in lineage societies, and in that capacity has verified an estimated 15,000 lines of descent for Americans of British ancestry. In 2009, she developed and delivered the first Scottish program for the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston, introducing them to the Archives of Scotland, the Catholic Archives of Scotland, and more. Cornelia was educated at the University of Virginia, Thunderbird the American Graduate School of International Management, New York University, Tulane University, Duke University.