New publications from Troon FHS

Troon@Ayrshire Family History Society (http://troonayrshirefhs.org.uk) has just released two new publications:

Memorial Inscriptions for Shewalton Cemetery, Irvine. This is a transcription of all existing gravestone inscriptions up to late 2011. It is available, text only, as a book at a price of £6.00 or a CD including text plus photographs of all stones, at a price of £5.00.

Airshire News Volume 4. This is the latest in the set of Ayrshire newspaper extracts and covers the period 1821 to 1830. It is available in book form at a price of £5.50 or as a CD at £4.50. Details of all Troon @ Ayrshire FHS publications and postage costs are available on the website www.troonayrshirefhs.org.uk

Troon is also hosting the 2012 Joint Meeting of the Ayrshire Family History Societies on Tuesday 20th March at 7:30 pm, at St. Meddan's Church Hall, Church Street, Troon, KA10 6HT. The topic by Bruce Durie is 'The Golfers - Updating Charles Lees' Famous Painting' - a painting I'm very familiar with, being one of the students who updated it! There's more about the project at http://scottishancestry.blogspot.com/2010/07/golfers-painting-recreated.html

Chris