Hi everyone, I am wondering if anyone knows of a way that I could purchase a copy of the book called "The People of the Parish of Jura," written by Scott Buie. It used to be available in some

C&E Roy Bookshop in Bowmore may be able to help

Scott Buie was a member of SCT-ISLAY but I don’t know if he’s still around. Back then, his email was jsbuie@... There is a Facebook page called Isle of Jura – perhaps some help there? Since

Not good news I fear. And I suspect Ancestry will be more expensive (and out of my budget!) in the not so distant future .... and I’ll bet they’re delighted to be able to access all those

Yes I am sure they will be interested but 23&me would have been a better fit for Medical DNA results. “It has spent more than $1 billion this year investing in drugs that target high cholesterol,

Wow! Getting too big for their britches, I fear! Lola Cook

I have a friend who works for ancestry and I asked him what difference it would make. He said ancestry has been sold several times over the years and he doesm't think it will make any difference.

Just as we’re experiencing, Islay too is dealing with COVID19 life changes. Cancellations of activities such as The Islay Sessions is an example. However that cloud has a silver lining – have

With COVID19, the Islay Book Festival has morphed to an online version. This morning (my apology for the late notice) Jim Hunter will be speaking about his book about the story of Scotland’s

Thank you. Potato famine history could be a real day brightener here in the U.S.

Thanks so much for alerting us to this, Sue. That was a very interesting presentation. Allison Akgungor

Just watching YouTube now from Australia. It is of interest to me as my GGG Grandfather Robert Cross, was a Factor on the Islay Estate (not sure what dates) and he also farmed at Ballymartin on

An excellent presentation: Found on genealogy a la carte on Facebook: https://genealogyalacarte.ca/?p=32946&fbclid=IwAR09PqP3te-SvkL-RbjHH9ywgzZe4dsOdAh1YhVVaVCUWbzm-s9SQ5SC764 On YouTube

Hi Sue, Just a quick note about change of email. I am now using DixieAC@... as something went wrong with the old cutlerd@shaw — darned technology screwups. Hope you and Norm are keeping well these

Thanks for the update Dixie. We’re ok – could be better; could be worse. It would be thought that a lot of Gen stuff would have been done in recent months but nada. Just as the pandemic hit,

Hi all Yesterday I was getting ready to watch a webinar about Scottish Wills when I discovered there was a Scottish conference happening right then. I started watching and it was excellent and had

Hi Sue, This was the sixth conference from Scottish Indexes - so look out for next month. Best wishes, Morag

Sue, I hired Emma Maxwell to do some Scottish research for me a couple of years ago, involving records at the Archives that are stored off-site (unrelated to Islay). This was my only experience with

The next Scottish Indexes conference will be on 6 December 2020. They seem to alternate conferences on a Saturday or a Sunday. The website is www.scottishindexes.com. Morag M Fowler

Minister William Campbell of Kildalton Parish was my great, great grandfather. The information that I have is as follows: William Campbell (1853-1893) married Jessie Sinclair (1849-1888). Following