Volume V No 10 Beth’s Newfangled Family Tree Sec- tionAnother A March 2012 “Homecoming” in Scotland, July 2014 There will be another International Clan Gather- ing in Stirling in early July 2014 as part of the 2nd Year of Homecoming. The event will coincide with the 700th anniver- Lord Jamie Semphill sary of the Battle of Bannockburn. Lord Jamie Sempill has confirmed plans for this event in July 2014. There will be more here as further information is released. Clan Leslie gathering in New Hampshire Highland Games, Loon Mountain, September 21-23! The Clan Leslie Gathering is coming to the New Hampshire Highland Games at Loon Moun- tain on September 21 to 23. The Clan Leslie Chief, the Hounorable Alexander Leslie and his wife Francesca will be attending. Take this opportunity to meet your Clan Chief and have a good time with other Leslies, Abernathys, Moores, Carneys and Laings. The details of the Leslie Gathering and the registration form are attached as a separate file. This year, we are also inviting Leslies from Australia and New Zealand to attend the Gather- ing. The Commissioner, Clan Leslie North America, William Leslie and the CLSI Chieftain, David Leslie White as well as members of the CLSI Council will also be there to meet you and discuss any Clan Leslie ideas or issues that you have. Remember Beth’s Newfangled the AlamoFamily Tree Section March A March 2012 6! Page 1 Please tell everyone about Beth’s Newfangled Editor, photographer, etc. Beth Gay-Freeman, LOK, FSA Scot <[email protected]> 102 Lakeside Drive Family Tree! Walhalla, SC 29691 No postage, no subscriptions, Webmaster no strings at all...just read, Alastair McIntyre, KTJ, FSA Scot <http://www.electricscotland.com> New issues the first of each month at Masthead Designer this site! Tom Freeman, KR, FSA Scot <[email protected]> Your Scottish and Be notified when a new Genealogical news BNFT issue is ready! Free! Just visit is always welcomed! http://www.electricscotland.com/maillist.net Send to [email protected] Miss Narra wishes everyone a Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Page 2 Beth’s Newfangled Family Tree Section A March 2012 A letter from your editor... We need lots of advice from you, please! In our current move, I have discovered not well, I thought, at least it is a very quiet only that we have much too much “stuff,” but dishwasher.” Quiet? that there is something called “packing dust.” I It turns out that when the house was “de- would have sworn everything I packed was neat, winterized” the guy forgot to turn on the water to clean and dust free. the dishwasher. Tom was impressed it only took Not so. two cycles for me to realize something was very Each box I open wrong. With water, the has grown dust in the lovely new dishwasher time since I packed up works just tine. my house. That means, It is exactly everything has to, at thirty-nine miles from best, visit the our old Walhalla house dishwasher. At worst, to our wonderful new it is something silver or house, located just 3 copper or brass that has miles south of Tallulah grown “packing patina” Falls and Tallulah that looks awful and Gorge in Georgia. must be removed by Could it be that there hand polishing the is a time warp offending metal. somewhere in that Speaking of the thirty-nine miles? dishwasher, I loaded the brand new, never before Everything seems to go through an “aging” used dishwasher and let it do its thing. Removing process as it crosses that warp which results in the things “washed” I was somewhat dust appearing beneath the soft paper in which disappointed to see packing dust still there. everything is wrapped. I guess this is possible. What? It’s a brand new dishwasher? I did not Not only am I bumfuzzeled by the dust and learn anything by this and loaded more things in other messy coatings appearing on many items, the machine and started another cycle - while but my own body, muscles and mind have been hand washing everything that had been in that affected. I say to myself, “Pick up that big box first load. Cycle finished. Same result. “Oh Continued on page 5 Beth’s Newfangled Family Tree Section A March 2012 Page 3 Site Seeing. These will make you laugh and smile for days! http://www.youtube.com/v/ gBnvGS4u3F0?hl=en&fs=1&autoplay=1 http://www.youtube.com/v/ mgCIKGIYJ1A?hl=en&fs=1&autoplay=1 http://www.youtube.com/v/ LuVPnW0s3Vo?hl=en&fs=1&autoplay=1 The Clan Macfie 2012 Colonsay Calendars were a great hit and due to the response we had to make another small order and we have about 20 left, and we will not be placing a reorder, so if you did not get a 2012 Colonsay Calendar, send $17.00 for calendar and postage to: Jim McAfee, 420 Ash Dr. , Baxter, TN 38544 Ginger McAfee, Macfie Clan Society of America www.clanmacfieofamerica.com Page 4 Beth’s Newfangled Family Tree Section A March 2012 Help! Continued from page 3 of books.” Myself replies, “Not on your life.” I knees on the floor work fine....the getting down try anyway. is much easier than the getting up, however. I get a great hold on a box of things to move Tom is getting a dog (More about this later) it so I can unpack the box...carefully position and maybe I can train him to retrieve something myself so that my formerly very strong legs will I need from the bottom cabinets? do the lifting, take a deep breath and LIFT. Some lovely new neighbors came the other Nothing moves not even an inch. The box sits afternoon as we were both wandering about in the there smugly. maze of boxes. “What a delightful thing to have I am five feet three inches tall. When we new neighbors come to visit,” both of us said! looked at the house, everything seemed perfect. Inviting them in, Tom said, “Oh, do come Actually moving in, I discover that I cannot reach in and have a seat...oh, we don’t have any chairs.” even the second shelf in the kitchen cabinets - As we were all standing amongst the boxes, while to get to the bottom cabinets, I am way too I thought of my manners and said, “Let me get tall. When you come see us, don’t be surprised to you something to drink...oops, we don’t have a see a tall aluminum ladder refrigerator yet.” in the kitchen. If I paint it I wonder if we will cobalt blue to match most ever see these folks again? everything I own, do you At the end of a day of sort think it will disappear and of stirring all the “stuff” in you won’t notice it? boxes and most any kind of Please don’t be receptacle that will hold surprised when I am crawling anything, I am so very tired, around the kitchen floor my earlobes hurt. I don’t ever searching for something in remember hurting when the very bottom of the moving before. cabinets. When I get on my I also don’t remember hands and knees, I try to noticing that I have earlobes before - except when anticipate anything else I will need...so do a tour of there were six people sitting on me years and all of the bottom cabinets in case there is something years ago when my second ear was pierced. (One else I should get while I am down there. side is whompy-jawed, a souvenir of my terror To explain this: Four years ago I had a brand of the SECOND ear piercing. I had truly changed new titanium “active person, young person” hip my mind about the whole thing after the first ear.) installed. My doctor said, “You will never again Ear lobe pain is to be avoided at all costs. be allowed to bend over from the waist and get People advise us, “Oh, just call your family objects from the floor. You will never again be members to help. Your friends will be glad to allowed to get into the Yoga position.” come and help you unpack and move in.” Neither Tom nor I have any family other than Ha. cousins who live far away and my Auntie Mildred. Well, I’m not too bothered by the Yoga My Auntie Mildred just celebrated her 105th birthday position, but I have bent over from the waist at and I’m sure she would love to help, but she is maybe least a bazillion times since the surgery...but 450 miles away. Our friends near here, upon hearing bending over and then having to reach into the we are moving, have all left the country. bottom cabinet just doesn’t happen. Hands and Continued on page 11 Beth’s Newfangled Family Tree Section A March 2012 Page 5 Clan Clan Gregor Society Elliot Sir Malcolm MacGregor of MacGregor Society, 7th Baronet of Lanrick and Balquidder, USA 24th Chief of Clan Gregor Great Lakes, New England, Any person of Scottish ancestry Pacific North West, Western U.S. bearing the name Elliot in any of its various and Southeast Chapters spellings, including the spouse or descen- dant of such person, or any person who www.clangregor.org would like to be a friend of the Elliot Clan is welcome to join the group. For membership contact: Please contact the treasurer for PO Box 393, a membership form or visit http:// Stone Mountain, GA 30083 www.elliotclanusa.com/ for a form.