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Our beloved Newsletter won 1st Place for Clan publications in the "under 50 pages" category in a contest sponsored by the Council of Scottish Clans and Associations (COSCA) in 2003. Congratulations Sennachie!!

If you want to see what the Sporran is all about you can download a Sample Edition in .pdf format that includes some typical articles and letters. Just click on the Sporran page below.

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Membership Newsletter Services
by Dave Chagnon, Sennachie

Newsletter Index & Reprints: Clan Davidson Society (USA) has a “Newsletter Master Index” by issue #, subject matter and specific item for all issues of “The Sporran”, going right back to Vol. 1, No. 1 in January, 1982.

There is a required donation to the Society’s treasury of $5.00 for a copy of the Master Index (prints out on approx. 24 pages) and $3.00 for each back issue you request. Just send your requests (with check made out to Clan Davidson Society USA) to the Sennachie (7004 Barberry Drive, North Little Rock AR 72118) and your copies shall be shortly forthcoming. The back issues may not be exactly formatted like the original ones (e.g. legal sized for earliest editions, or printed both sides for later issues) since I’ll be genning these out on a laser printer, but the content will be exactly the same. Hey, whatta you want for 3 bucks?

Membership Search Service

As mentioned above, all known current and past Society membership information (name, address, years of membership, etc.) is now stored in a common database, making searches for members or production of comprehensive membership lists now a working reality. I’d be happy to do a “look up” in this database for any “Active” member as a freebie. Just drop me a line, fax, or e-mail. Since there is considerable repetition of certain names (there are 44 “William’s” out of nearly 1200 records, for example) you need to give me as much info about the subject of your query as you can (i.e. middle names, last known address, spouse’s name, etc.). And, puhleeese, avoid nick-names! For only $5.00 (cheap!) I’ll be happy to send you a current “Inactive” member list, which, fortunately, is still smaller than the “Active” list!

Article Submissions

Material For The Sporran: The Sennachie is always on the lookout for material of interest to or about our Clansmen to share with other Society members, so please feel free to send me whatever stories, genealogical inquiries, family reunion notices, letters, questions, photographs, complaints, etc. you would like to see published in our ‘umble little publication, The Sporran. Please make sure the identity of the sender is included with the submission: name, snail mail address, phone number, and e-mail address.

The Sporran is published semi-annually in January and July. Cutoff dates are December 1st and June 1st, respectively. Due to size restrictions, the Sennachie reserves the right to select the issue in which any given material is published. Each edition is typically 30 to 40 pages in length. Longer articles may be serialized and published in separate editions.

Questions should be sent to me directly.