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| 27 May 2018 |
James
Sholto Douglas, consul in Tangier
George Douglas of
Roddinghead
Palaeography, or
handwriting
Genealogy
Gavin Douglas, d1522
Major-General Robert Douglas, of
Garlston
Uploaded changes to website
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added memorial image
added image of father-in-law's memorial; Wife's death
new page
tidy up of index page; revised menu
added record of matriculation
coding tidy up |
| 27 May 2018 |
Installed revised copy of
Who Do You Think
Should be the House of Chief of Douglas
Business home page |
Removed Amazon ad |
| 28 May 2018 |
Ships and shipping
Douglas of
Garallan
Patrick Douglas of Garallan |
added
Robert Douglas of
Ardrossan, and brig Douglas
added image; improved coding
added image |
| 29 May 2018 |
New article on Moses Douglas,
of Kinnigoe
Uploaded changes to website
Lt. Col Montagu
William Douglas CSI, CIE |
also image of his son, William
Minor additions, but unable to help his biographer with specific
question |
| 30 May 2018 |
Began examination of new format for portal pages
Responded to enquiry from The Guardian 'How did
Keith Douglas die?'
Responded to enquiry re boat that brought
Robert Douglas
3rd bart to New Zealand |
Killed by mortar fire in St Pierre, France, in 1944
Unable to provide an answer |
| 31 May 2018 |
Earl of Dumbarton
Responded to enquiry from BBC Scotland
Responded to enquiry 'Where is Douglas Bridge?' |
Recorded creation of new Earldom for Prince
Harry & improved page coding
Re: Copyright of painting of
Earl of Dumbarton
Northern Ireland |
| 5 June 2018 |
Examine photographs of Douglas Support |
Supplied by a Coatbridge historian. |
| 4 June 2018 |
Responded to enquiry re DNA, Sterrett sept and Pegelow surname
connection
Responded to enquiry from Embassy of Sweden in Jakarta
Responded to enquiry re Thomas Dicson
Responded to enquiry re places to visit in Ireland |
Re: first Ambassador was Carl Ludvig Douglas
(Biography updated)
Referred to Dickey/Dickson as Douglas sept (14 June - linked
Douglas larder)
Suggested Londonderry - article required? |
| 5 June 2018 |
Responded to enquiry re Lady Ellen Douglas as possible artist of
portrait of Princess Victoria.
Responded to enquiry re ephemera relating to
Admiral Douglas |
Probably not the daughter of the Earl of Morton
- but who?
Promoted on social media |
| 6 June 2018 |
Welcomed 3 new members |
and responded to their comments |
| 8 June 2016 |
Renewed subscription to Stirnet |
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| 9 June 2018 |
Issued alert that genealogy database update was not going well
Responded to suggestion that Douglas in Hebrew means
"Distinguished Man".
Discovered Hamilton Ash family links to Earl's Gift, a Douglas
residence in Co. Tyrone |
Shared in community forum
Updated genealogy records |
| 10 June 2018 |
Listed CDSNA newsletters
Prepared newsletter No16
Tidied 'News' folder
Uploaded changes to website
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Still to be catalogued
Needs more work, including indexing
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| 11 June 2018 |
Responded to request to find a home for a Douglas of Salwarpe
brooch.
Responded to an enquiry about Black Douglas whisky
Sent newsletter to 1,100 subscribers and notified 2,000 others
that it could be viewed online.
Responded to offer to tender for a
Douglas tugmaster |
Researched provenance and located family
member.
And dealt with responses.
Directed to the right place. |
| 13 June 2018 |
Researched 4 new articles
Linked Eleanor Touchet to her ancestors in the genealogy
database
Improved 50 entries for the Hastings family
Added detail to the Redenbaugh family |
Douglas knights, and Knights bannerets;
Archibald 7th of Tilquhillie and his wife Eleanor Touchet |
| 14 June 2018 |
Uploaded changes to website |
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| 10 July 2018 |
Revised use of contents list in
Clans section |
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| 7 August 2018 |
Reviewed Douglas of Glenbervie page |
This needs serious work! Any volunteers? |
| 8 August 2018 |
Wrote new article for Wikipedia and
edited Douglas Archives article
Added several new artiles |
William Douglas, 9th Earl of Morton
Including Glasgow burgesses; Wigton earls; Sibiville; Orelans
seige; Branxholme, and more |
| 9 August 2018 |
Revised article on Major-General Archibald Sholto George Douglas
Improved coding on 10 older pages |
He was awarded the Order of Kutuzov of the
U.S.S.R. Why?
Making layout more attractive |
| 10 August 2018 |
Uploaded new genealogy database |
This took most of the day. All is not
well with the process. We now have 184,163 people listed
(and I merged a number of duplicates during the month!) |
| 11 August 2018 |
Added article on the salamander, as used in Douglas heraldry
Added material on the Battle of
Teba |
This was first published in the CDAA newsletter
in March 2011
Kindly contributed by Sally
Douglas |
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| 2 December 2021 |
After a period of relative chaos resulting from a virus which
led to a complicated move to a new computer, normal service is
not yet resumed. |
Strange links are appearing to files in 'What's
new? This results from the increasing number of articles
about the Douglas family in Italy and the need for a
reorganisation of folders to accommodate them. |
