“I always knew as a child that I had this Scottish ancestor, Robert Sr, who emigrated to the Americas in the 1820s,” Kate, 36, recalls. Meanwhile Robert Sr, who never converted, slipped into obscurity. As the “black sheep” of the family, she realised she had more questions about Robert Sr, the last non-Mormon in her ancestral line. Across several visits to Scotland in 2025, she spent time in the Stirling Archives, Falkirk Archives, and National Records of Scotland search rooms in Edinburgh. Then, during a deep dive in the Stirling Council Archives, she found a “smoking gun”: letters suggesting noblemen colluded to carry out pre‑emptive raids on suspected radicals.