Scots have emigrated to almost every country in the world, to Australia, to Canada, to New Zealand to the USA. Many of their descendants visit Scotland to trace their Scottish ancestry, some of them have detailed, or not so detailed, information, about their roots in Scotland. I organize Scottish ancestry tours of Scotland where there is an emphasis on Scottish genealogy and Scottish family history, showing tour guests the places where their ancestors lived, and worked, in Scotland.
Scottish Covenanters. This DVD presents a penetrating look at a movement in 17th-century Scotland that is little known today but whose courage and fortitude are woven into the fabric of the Scottish people. The Covenanters covenanted with God for the good of the people. This video covers the story of fifty years with a short prelude to help understand the reason why they acted as they did. Their conflict was basically spiritual, but, due to prevailing and constant persecution, they were drawn into deeper conflicts and complexities. They fought long and hard for the crown right and prerogatives of Christ over His Church with devastating results upon themselves. Scottish Covenanters.
The Scottish Covenanter Genealogical Index. The Covenanters were steadfast in their Presbyterian beliefs and refused to take an oath unto the King stating that he was the head of the church. They believed that Christ was the Head of the Church and their loyalty to this belief allowed them to lay their lives down for it. The Royalists and Dragoons, who were seeking to bring them into obedience to the King, relentlessly chased the Covenanters from glen to glen. This disregard for their civil rights was brutally carried out basically in the Lowlands of Scotland. The Scottish Covenanter Genealogical Index - (1630-1712).
Ancestry Tours of Jamaica Street, Glasgow, Scotland.
Times Past: the Story of Glasgow is a beautifully illustrated volume that includes many spectacular and previously unpublished photographs of the city, brought together here for the first time. Based on the hugely popular Evening Times supplement, Times Past is a nostalgic and heart-warming look at the city, with specially written introductions to each of the ten chapters by Times journalist and life-long Glaswegian Russell Leadbetter.
Times Past: The Story Of Glasgow. With chapters on Shipbuilding, Entertainment, Sport, the War Years, Transport, Industry, Growing Up in Glasgow, Holidays Doon the Watter, Leisure, and Daily Life, Times Past: The Story of Glasgow covers all aspects of the "Second City of the Empire," and tells the remarkable story of the city and its people through carefully selected images from the Evening Times' own archive.
The "Dear Green Place" burgeoned in the nineteenth century and with its wealth came the confidence to build some of the most stunning city-center buildings anywhere in the world. This was financed by some of Britain's shrewdest merchants and businessmen and, of course, all this trade meant that shipbuilding became one of the city's most important activities. And the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Alexander "Greek" Thomson is now admired all over the world, along with many other famous names which Glasgow has given to the world. Times Past: The Story Of Glasgow.
From Scotland to Canada, the life of pioneer missionary Alexander Stewart. Alexander Stewart was converted to Christ during the dramatic revival in Moulin, in the Highlands of Scotland, in 1799. This revival fuelled a strong outpouring of missionary activity and church planting throughout Scotland. Stewart felt the call of God on his life and attended Robert Haldane's Theological Seminary, following this with years of evangelism and church planting in Perthshire. In 1818 Alexander and his wife, Janet, with their young family, emigrated to Upper Canada-the New World was opening up and many Scots were taking advantage of the promise of free land, employment opportunities and the excitement of a frontier life. Alexander saw it as an opportunity to bring gospel light to the settlers and new immigrants, as well as a place to raise his family. They eventually settled in York (now Toronto) and established the first Baptist church there. Stewart's church planting and preaching ministry also extended to the surrounding townships of Esquesing, Chinguacousy and Eramosa. Alexander Stewart's story is one of persistent zeal for the extension of God's kingdom and a fervent desire to do what he could to bring the gospel to a young country. Glenn Tomlinson has extensively mined the archives and resources from this time in Scottish and Canadian history to bring us this compelling story of a man determined to establish centres for the gospel in Scotland and Canada. From Scotland to Canada: the life of pioneer missionary Alexander Stewart.
I was born in Buckhaven, spent a short time in Methil, raised in Cellardyke and Anstruther, lived for a long time in St Andrews. A Fifer, and proud of it. Have been organizing and leading small grouo tours of Scotland for 20 years
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