Kenneth MacLeod| he/him

Archival researcher

About me

12 | March | 1958

Born in Dunedin, New Zealand

[email protected]

My values

Patience

Provenance

Slowness

Skepticism

Cross-referencing

Quiet attribution

Long memory

Care with names

Restraint

My skills

Caribbean plantation records research

Estate paper cataloguing

Compensation file analysis

Name tracing across broken registers

Family-history reconstruction

Reading copy-of-copy documents

Microfilm and bound ledger reading

Inter-archive correspondence

Regional NZ archives navigation

Footnoting and provenance writing

Reference negotiation

Languages

English++++

Scottish Gaelic++

French++

Spanish (reading)++

Softwares I use & learning

Zotero

Tropy

Scrivener

OmniOutliner

Excel

FamilySearch

Ancestry catalogues

DigitalNZ

Trove

British Library catalogues

Legacies of British Slavery DB

*Notebook user

Links

ORCID

Papers Past

Hocken Collections

Legacies of British Slavery (UCL)

Kenneth MacLeod in a considered close-up portrait, heavy brows and steady gaze, typical of his research presence — Considered close-up of Kenneth MacLeod with heavy brows and steady gaze, used as a reference portrait for talks on Caribbean plantation records research.

My experience and work

Independent archival researcher

Caribbean plantation, estate and compensation records

2009+

Research contributor

Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery, UCL

2014+

Senior archives officer (retired)

Hocken Collections, University of Otago

1994–2008

Reading-room archivist

Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington

1988–1994

Family-history consultant

Independent practice for descendants of British plantation families

2010+

Education and courses

MA History

University of Otago | 1986–1989

BA History and English

University of Auckland | 1981–1984

Diploma in Archives and Records

Curtin University | 1993

Caribbean records short course

Society of Genealogists, London | 2007

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