Why call this site Taybank, you might be asking. The point was to find a name that was relevant and not proscriptive. Earlier websites had been all about genealogy but this was about much more.
The name itself comes from a small estate to the east of Dundee, which was feued off in the early 20th century. The house my (Grant) father grew up in was built on some of this land c1912, though our family only moved there during WW2. The house I grew up in was also close by, on land which had been part of the Craigie Estate (Taybank House originally, I believe, functioning as a dower house to the main one at Craigie).
Taking it beyound that specific meaning and thinking more about it as 'the banks of the Tay', the focus increases. As the longest river in Scotlan, the Tay knits Lownands and Highlands together and bcomes representative of Scotland as a whole.
Is this reallya defensible rationale for naming this website - I don't know. Good or bad, relevant or arbitrary, 'Taybank' it is.
