Tradition precedes history — Date of earliest extant Scotch writ ings — Period of ascertained history in Scotland — Its bearing upon family history — The older Scotch genealogists; their manufacture of pedigrees — The Haig Family: great anti quity assigned to it by tradition — halleged Pictish origin Mylne's Pictish genealogy of family: I. Druskine, last King of the Picts, a.d. 839 — 11. Hago, his son, carried in infancy over to Norway — III. Hago, a.d. 961 — IV. Arworth — V. Sueno, a.~d. Io38 — VI. Hago, a.d. Io7z-iio3 — VII. Petrus de Hago: shipwrecked on coast of Berwickshire, founded Bemersyde family, etc. — Pictish genealogy of family tradi tional and fabulous.