What is it about Ireland that makes her people so proud of her? It could only be the one thing - the Spirit of the People of Ireland, their love for the members of the family circle, their love for their young and their aged. Perhaps you know of another reason, but that same spirit runs in the blood of Australians.
I am humbly honoured to have, through your purchase of this book, to have walked a little way through the beauty of Irish History with you.
May God protect and guide you and yours each day of your life.
James McClelland, OAM
Book 12 - 166 Pages
This book may not be of much use to people who have access to large libraries or overseas telephone directories, but then my books are specially written for Australians who do not live close to large cities or large country towns where record facilities are available.
To get a good cross reference I have taken two of the phone books; the one for Northern Ireland and the one for the Capital of the Republic of Ireland, which is of course Dublin, and its closeby Counties and counted the number of surnames in each. I have not used the third Irish phone book because it would have made the project run into four books and this would have made the whole project uneconomical.
The main part of the book will show you how many surnames are in the North and how many of that particular surname are in the South.
James McClelland, OAM
Book 32: A-Mc - 80 Pages Book 32A: M-Z - 59 Pages
Book 68 - 90 Pages
To understand Family History, to be able to research Family History successfully, it is very important to understand the Times of Our Ancestors.
The most important thing in all of life is our own personal family unit. Over the centuries the family as a unit has not changed much. The family that still prays together, and shares the good times and the bad times, still sticks together. But influences such as Religion, Patriotism, Wars, Famine and man's own inhumanity towards man, have exerted great and varying influences on our family circles.
I was dismayed recently at a Highland Gathering to find that some teenagers present thought that Scotland was always the romantic land of Clans, Laddies, Lassies, Bagpipes and flowing tartans. They knew nothing of the terrible times of the Great Irish Famine, or the horror of the Scottish Clearances, when some Chiefs turned on their own Clan People.
I hope that his book explains some of these less Romantic Times.
James McClelland, OAM
Book 52 - 94 Pages
SURNAMES - THEIR CLAN AND TARTAN
SOME SONS & DAUGHTERS OF SCOTLAND
A HISTORY OF SCOTLAND
TRACING ANCESTORS FROM SCOTLAND
LIST OF TOWNS, VILLAGES & HAMLETS
LIST OF SCOTTISH PARISHES
BRIEF OUTLINE OF SOME SCOTTISH CLANS
MAP OF CLAN LANDS
SOME ANCIENT CLAN LAND LOCATIONS
Book 15 - 160 Pages