Largs & North Ayrshire Family History Society

The Society publishes a Journal three times per year. It contains a varied selection of contributions from members, reports of meetings, information on sources of genealogical material, members queries etc.

Issue Number 53 -- Out Now

Table of Contents

Editorial.
Chairperson's Remarks.
Letters to the Editor.
Treasure Island Map.
Hangingshaw Postscript.
Were your Ancestors Buchanites ?.
Family Tree - Bill Farquhar.
Tracing Merchant Navy Ancestry.
DNA - The next Step Backward.
Book Reviews.
A Beginners Guide to Genetic Genealogy.
A Renfrewshire Lairds Accounts.
Weavers Cottage.
Society Constitution.
Publications for Sale.
Membership Subscriptions.
Syllabus 2007-2008.

This issues featured article is "Were your Ancestors Buchanites ?

During the second half of the 18th Century the Established Church of Scotland was subject to quite a few schisms by a variety of heretical sects and non-conformist ideologies. Perhaps the most unique of these was the group known as the Buchanite Society, a herectical sect, which had its origin in the Royal Burgh of Irvine in the County of Ayr on the west coast of Scotland. .........