Welcome to my home page! Here you can find out about my interests, both work-related but also more fun things like family history. If you want to contact me then please read this page first.
I'm currently a postgraduate history student at Dundee University. Previously I studied history and classical studies at the Open University, and before that computer science (undergrad + postgrad in the Persistent Programming Research Group) at St Andrews University. A list of publications co-authored during my time at St Andrews plus some more recent articles is available.
I have been tracing my family tree for over 20 years now. Most of my forebears come from the south of Scotland and I am researching many families. I have also started a one-name study of the surname Cavers and have a rapidly growing collection of references to that surname.
Over the years I have started many genealogical indexes, e.g.
Further details of these and other indexing projects are available.
I have also been involved for a long time with the GENUKI project which aims to provide an online information resource for UK and Irish genealogists. Since 1995 I have developed GENUKI pages for the following Scottish Border counties: Berwickshire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire and Peeblesshire. I still maintain the GENUKI pages for the first three of these counties.
Another interest of mine is the application of computers to genealogy and family history. Together with my husband Martin I designed a genealogical browser GenMVD for the Psion 3 series of palmtop computers. I have also written a number of articles on this subject.