The Clan Forbes Society is pleased to announce that FamilyTreeDNA Forbes Group Administrator is planning to conduct a formal project to...

Balfluig Castle is located in the Howe (valley) of Alford on the River Don in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The castle was built in 1556, most...

The Clan Forbes Society is proud to announce the publication of House of Forbes for Kids, a new heritage activity book for children of...

Scottish forces clashed on July 2, 1645, in Alford in Aberdeenshire, on lands Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar, granted in 1423 to...

The Northern Ireland conflict was generally acknowledged to have ended with the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 between the United Kingdom...

Elizabeth Forbes-Sempill of Craigievar was born on September 6, 1912, and died as Sir Ewan Forbes of Craigievar, 11th Baronet, on...

A scion of the wealthy Forbes of Pitsligo and Monymusk, John Stuart Stuart-Forbes (1849-1876) left Scotland to avoid scandal. Assuming...

Due to their strong Scottish accents and lack of the ability to write their own names, many British colony immigrants found their names...

A fortune can be accumulated in one generation – and can be lost in another. This was the case of the family of Forbes-Leith of Fyvie,...

Thanks to the generosity of a Clan Forbes Society member, FamilyTreeDNA (FTDNA) will conduct the Big Y-700 DNA analysis for Malcolm, Lord...

Enlarged from a medieval stronghold to a stately mansion house, Castle Newe was once a showplace and a stop for the British Royal Family....

With estimated deaths of between 4.5 to 8 million, the Thirty Years’ War from 1618 to 1648 was a catastrophe to the people of Europe,...

The Battle of Culloden occurred on April 16, 1746. The supporters of deposed Catholic King James II and VII (known as “Jacobites” based...

Two years after he succeeded as 8th Lord Forbes, John Forbes continued his political and religious activism in what was called a “tumult”...

DNA testing has become a popular strategy for researching genealogy. During the last virtual Clan Forbes Gathering in March 2021, Clan...

One of your challenges in researching your genealogy is to trace your lineage to one of the 100 different branches of the House of...

In 1582, William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie, devised a plot to abduct the 16-year-old King James VI and remove him from the Catholic...

Nigel Ivan, 22nd Lord Forbes, was born on February 19, 1918, as the eldest son of Atholl Laurence, 21st Lord Forbes, and Lady Mabel,...

In 1534, King Henry VIII of England separated the Church of England from the Catholic Chuch in order to marry Anne Bolyn. He urged his...