| Stories of a Grandfather
The Douglas Archives seeks to preserve, protect and make widely
known the enormous contribution that members of the Clan Douglas have
made, and are still making, in politics, medicine, literature, music,
sport, exploration and other forms of scientific endeavour, military
campaigns and many other fields.
The Douglas Archives already contain numerous stories, but the majority
of the collection are articles in note form, miscellaneous collations of
snippets, lists, and material written to help other researchers, and the
content is not told as a 'story'.
Here, I aim to rectify that making the history and heritage of
the extended Douglas family and clan more of something that we can
snuggle up in a chair to read, rather than pore over a computer
screen.
In years gone by, clans had their Seanachaidh, Shenachie or Sennachie who was a recorder and reciter of family history and genealogy. Proper respect for one's genealogy and ancestors was important in all dealings and in warfare between Highlanders.
There is no evidence that I have seen that
indicated that the Douglases ever had a
Seanachaidh, but here in the Douglas Archives we
aim to do a bit of storytelling, record the deeds of the extended
family and its genealogy.
Some of the articles in this section will have appeared
elsewhere, and some will be a re-telling of articles in a
different format.
Some more stories from a Grandfather:
See also:
Articles
in the Douglas Archives
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