In researching this history and chronology of two families, Quattlebaum gets to know his ancestors—some very average men and women and some colorful characters. Quattlebaum wandered the hills and valleys of Skye and walked through the churches and homes of the MacQueens. He learned that the Macfarlane clan, descendants of the earls of Lennox lived in Dumbarton and Loch Lomond. The author then traced the Macfarlanes to Glasgow and Greenock, where they established themselves as merchants in the early seventeenth century. From Greenock, the family migrated to the Carolinas, where Major Alexander McQueen married Marjory Macfarlane.
In this historical study, Quattlebaum records almost five hundred years of MacQueen genealogy and traces the Macfarlanes back nearly a thousand years.
