CLAN SLOGAN / WAR CRY CDSNA 2012-2015 Officers Who can join Clan Douglas? A Douglas! A Douglas! President: Diana Kay Stell Membership in Clan Douglas Society of North America is open to anyone email: [email protected] descended from, connected by marriage to Vice President: Mark A. Peterson or adopted by a Douglas, a Sept of email: [email protected] Douglas, or a Family Allied with Douglas. ~ Recognized Septs & Allied Families ~ Secretary: Jim Morton email: [email protected] Agnew Dickson MacGuffey Bell Dixon MacGuffock Treasurer: Shirley Douglas email: [email protected] Blackadder Drysdale McKittrick Blackett Forest Maxwell Asst. Vice President (East): Harold Edington Blacklock Forrester Moffat email: [email protected] Blackstock Foster Morton Asst. Vice President (West): Phil & Loretta Morton Blackwood Galbraith Pringle email:[email protected] Blaylock Gilpatric Rowell Asst. Vice President (Canada): Kenneth Simmons Clan Douglas Breckinridge Glendenning Rowle email: [email protected] Society Brown Glenn Rule Store Keeper: Bill Douglass of North America, Ltd. Brownlee Hamilton Rutherford email: [email protected] Carmichael Harkness Sandilands Founded in 1975 Web Administrator: Mara Peterson Carruthers Home Sandlin email: [email protected] Cavan Hume Simms Web Editor: Mark Peterson Cavers Inglis Soule email: [email protected] Visit our CDSNA website: Clendenon Kilgore Sterrett Newsletter Editor: Melissa Gilmour Crockett Kilpatrick Syme email: [email protected] www.ClanDouglasSociety.org Dalyell Kirkpatrick Symington Historical Article Editor: Dr. Murray Frick Dalzell Kirkland Troup email: [email protected] Deal Lockerby Turnbull Douglas Heritage Society: James Fleming Dick Lockery Weir email: [email protected] Dickey Lockhart Young(er) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Various spellings of the above are also recognized. These recognitions and relationships make no for more Douglas information, pretense to establish a line of peerage or confirm visit our friends @ any genealogical relationship. the Douglas Archives Learn more about these surnames in the A collection of historical and genealogical resources Septs and Allied Families section CLAN CREST – The official emblem of http://www.douglashistory.co.uk/ Clan Douglas Society of North America is of the CDSNA website. the belted Heart of Bruce, crowned and winged © 2012 by H Edington with the motto FORWARD. WELCOME to Clan Douglas About CDSNA matters. Society members are encouraged Society of North America! to preserve our Douglas and Scottish CDSNA is a charitable non-profit Clan Douglas Society of North America, heritage and support the Douglas Heritage organization of Scottish descendants of the CDSNA, was organized in 1975 at the Museum in Douglas, Scotland by septs and allied families of the Family/Clan Grandfather Mountain Highland Games becoming a “friend of Douglas Heritage.” Douglas whose purpose is to foster and and Gathering of Scottish Clans in CDSNA is therefore an independent promote understanding and good fellowship Linville, North Carolina and duly American and Canadian organization among other Scottish descendants, to study and incorporated July 21, 1977. CDSNA is a although we do extend the privilege of learn about our Scottish heritage, and to tax-exempt organization recognized as a promote and increase our friendships with affiliation with our Society to persons charitable historical organization by the worldwide having the surname of Douglas those of similar mind now residing in Scotland IRS and all donations to CDSNA are tax and the world. or one of the many other surnames of deductible. CDSNA is a member of the Clan Douglas Society of North America has families traditionally and/or historically Council of Scottish Clan Associations, allied to the House of Douglas or with Regents representing our organization COSCA. throughout the United States, our affiliates in spouses of such lineage. CDSNA currently Canada, and Australia by promoting Douglas CDSNA is totally independent of any has members in several foreign countries. heritage at many Scottish Festivals and associations in Scotland, where the Chief The primary unifying efforts of the Society Highland Games. of the Clan is said to be “dormant”. are CDSNA is neutral on any and all claims or its quarterly newsletter, Dubh Ghlase Where do our movements to establish a claim for a Chief (Gaelic for Black Water), available in Membership dues go? of the House of Douglas. If an active Chief a full-color, digital format via email A quarterly Clan newsletter – DUBH of the House of Douglas should be named, a clan website GHLASE- with articles on Douglas it will become incumbent on active (www.ClanDouglasSociety.org) family history and Clan Douglas CDSNA members to make application to Facebook activities across North America such Chief or chief’s organization and (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Clan establish personal claim of right to -Douglas-Society-of-North- Clan Douglas tent sponsorships at the affiliation with them. America/178933414125). numerous Scottish Games and Sponsored Clan tents at selected Festivals throughout the United States CDSNA works to maintain a cordial Celtic/Scottish events coast to coast relationship with the office of The Lord Support for Scotland’s Douglas Lyon, The Duke of Hamilton, The Duke of CDSNA has its annual general business Museum Buccleuch and Queensberry, The Earl of meeting, AGM, at Grandfather Mountain Hume, The Earl of Morton, and others on the occasion of the Highland Games in Clan Douglas Society of North within the historical House of Douglas. July of even-numbered years. In odd- America, Ltd. scholarships (up to four We ask all such persons to advise us on numbered years, the AGM can be held at a year in the amount of $250.00 each) any matter to assure cordial and diplomatic another suitable time and place at another to selected applicants dedicated to relationships and to maintain historical highland gathering, if approved by the continuing their instruction and accuracy. CDSNA recognizes the Board of Directors. Announcements furthering their education in the field of Scottish art, piping, drumming, ignorance of most Americans on these informing membership of any AGM dancing, Scottish related languages or matters of peerage and apologizes to our arrangements will be published in the general Scottish studies cousins abroad for any trespasses in such newsletter and on the website. .