I was born in 1964 and work in the north of Scotland as Client Services Manager for a fund management company called Valu-Trac Investment Management.
More years ago than I care to remember about, I did a degree in history, and doing work on the family is one of the ways I keep an interest in the subject going.
Apart from that I have kept my interest in things historical going by being involved with Elgin Museum, having been a board director for many years, and President 1996-1997. Working with the museum has broadened out my interests from history into archaeology, and I had the dubious pleasure of spending one Easter a few years ago in the pouring rain, at the bottom of a tree planting hole, digging out 9 bodies. Thankfully no photos exist of the very wet, mud covered figure that was me at the time, even though the tree hole was in the middle of Elgin High Street. However, the baby scarer on the right is a picture of me before leaving for the Moray Society's Jacobite Evening held at Spynie Palace in 1995
If any Dempsters are in the Moray area I strongly advise going to have a look at Elgin Museum, and pop in to visit me too!
For those interested in where I fit in on the family genealogical picture, I fall off the bottom of the "Turriff" branch of the family. It's not up on the genealogy section yet, but the simplest thing to say is that we were the stick-in-the-mud branch of the family which rarely moved more than 20 miles beyond the old Aberdeenshire heartlands, and always seems to gravitate back in that direction.
© James Dempster 1997
