MY name is Bob Beattie. In November 1958 I appeared on stage in the Inverness Empire with the Andy Stewart Show.

I WISH to get in touch with our old friend Torcuil Calum Macleod and his wife, Aileen, who I believe still read the Courier.

I AM trying to find a lady named Joan O'Reilly. She would be about 61 years old now.

WOULD anyone be able to help me find information about Rev. John R. Reid who was minister of the Methodist Church in Union Street until he retired I think in the late 1960s, and died in Inverness sometime between 1960 and 1967?

I AM trying to research my family history. I am looking for anyone who has information regarding the family of John Campbell and Dora Campbell, nee Paterson.

MY cousin and I are travelling to Beauly to try and discover our Scottish roots. We believe John Inglis travelled from Beauly to work in Lord Preston's estate in Gormanston, Co. Meath. Ireland. He was born in Beauly and family members included William Inglis, Mrs. Tweedy (nee Inglis) and the name Hepburn.

MY "Aunt", the late Miss Liz Campbell, lived at Smithton in the furthest of the three old cottages, demolished in the late 70s/early 80s. During the 1950s she 'fostered' two girls from Inverness; Catherine and Mary.

I AM researching my Inch family history and would welcome information on descendants of George MacKay died Inverness 3/12/1919 and his wife Barbara Inch died Inverness 25/2/1929.

I AM looking for an Mr Norman Macleod, from Inverness. He is probably the son of a farmer.

I AM searching for anyone with relatives who emigrated to Montana, USA in the last 150 years.

WE are looking for a Donald Fraser from Inverness who emigrated at the turn of last century to Canada, marrying Isobel Kennedy at Regina around October 20, 1913. Donald, a plumber, never returned to Scotland.

I AM looking for information on the man in the picture. I believe his family name was MacKenzie and he was born in the Inverness area.

WE are trying to contact an old mate from our days at RAF Prestwick during 1955-1958. His name was Ken McPherson and he was from Inverness.

I AM trying to find a contact e-mail address or telephone number for my son, Christopher Short, born 12th March 1988 at Raigmore hospital.

THE University of Stirling is 40 years old this year, and as part of the celebrations a grand reunion is being held on the campus this June.

I AM seeking the history behind a poem by Rachel S. Robertson from Fort George called "The Loss of the Ardersier Fishing Boat".

I AM looking for descendants of William Ross and Isabella Gibb. William and Isabella got married on 23/12/1904 in the parish of Glenbervie.

I AM looking for any descendants of William Henderson and Janet McLauchlan of Kirkhill, Inverness.

I AM trying to date an old family letter. "Jack is away preparing for General Munro’s trial which comes on Tuesday next 15th inst.(Sept.) at Inverness."

I AM looking for info on William Dyce McKenzie, my birth father. He emigrated to Australia approx 1926.

I WOULD like to find the parents of Donald Fraser, born c.1761, and his wife Ann Fraser, born c 1758.

I AM trying to find out any information about my late grandfather, Jacob Matheson, who I am told wrote letters/articles for the Inverness Courier between 1942-1945 while he was a prisoner of war at Marienburg, Poland.

MY cousins and I are tracing our family tree. We are looking for the grandchildren of Hugh Owens and Ellen Dallas McKay, who was born in 1885. They had one son, Jack, and three daughters: Chrissie, Flora and Frances.

WE are in the process of writing our Fraser family history/genealogy. We have over 300 letters written between 1802 and the 1890s, a number of which were written from Fraser family members (tenant farmers) in the Muirtown district to relatives in Georgia & New York, USA and Nova Scotia, Canada.

I AM looking for any information on the family of Dugald and Elizabeth MacVicar. I found them listed on page 7 of the 1841 census at Moni Dalvenie House # 1. I believe this is in the parish of Kilmonivaig.

MY grandmother came from Inverness. Her parents were Alexander Fraser dob March 27 1856 master stone mason and Jesse MacDonald dob 1865. Jesse and Alexander were married on April.11 1889.

I AM looking for a man called John Sutherland, who was working in Stavanger, Norway, in 1980-1981 (June 1981 he moved from Stavanger). He is in the age between 50-57, he has one brother, and his parents come from the Orkney Islands.

MY name is Rachel Adams nee Dixon. I am trying to trace my grandfather and any other relations.

I AM trying to contact my cousin, Eileen Leslie.

FOR the past year I have been searching every possible information source looking for my great, great grandfather’s family and any relatives that may still be living in the Scottish Highlands.

HAS anybody heard of an Evan Fowler who was born in Inverness in 1885 and emigrated first to Canada about 1912 and then to Australia in 1914 on the SS Ophir?

I HAVE traced my family back to John McCatty in the Old Parish Records of Birth in Inverness, Scotland 098/0040 0462 12/03/1771. He was the son of Alexander McChattie and Margaret Dunbar.

I AM looking for descendants of Donald Urquhart, a blacksmith at Newhall, Black Isle, who died March 1947.

I AM searching for descendents of Thomas Russell and Margaret McGillivray.

I AM trying to trace Mr W A Finlayson or a member of his family. Mr Finlayson lived at 11 Glenlia, Foyers, Inverness in 1945 when he was repatriated after WWII.

I AM a Fraser living in Australia and I have been undertaking family history research. This has revealed that my family emigrated from Lochend in 1854.

CANADIAN Elricks (Norman Garth and Richard Keith) will be visiting Aberdeenshire, Inverness, and Buckie in Spring 2008 seeking relatives of Dad.

I AM seeking the names of people who are related to Alexander and Elsie Russell who were born around 1835 in Inverness.

WE are searching for relatives who may live in the Inverness area. Just prior to WW II, my uncle, Oscar William Dunbar (son of William), visited family in the Inverness area with his wife Marie and 4-5 yr-old daughter Elaine. Their visit took place in December 1938-1940. They lived in Wellington, Kansas at the time.

MY name is Sheryl Knight. I live in Ontario, Canada. My great grandfather, John Grant, was born in Beauly in 1878 and raised in Inverness.

I AM trying to find any relatives of the late Capt. Alexander David Mackintosh, born at Tarbet Villas, Ballifeary Road to David and Christina, 20th August 1906.

WE are three blokes from Norway who attended a big concert in Ayr this weekend and we got a lift with two very nice and seriously funny guys from Inverness.

THE 2nd Inverness Company of Boys' Brigade, attached to Ness Bank Church Inverness, is still searching for past members of the company for its centenary celebrations in April 2008.

I AM doing a genealogy search of my grandfather’s family and wondered if there is still family in the area.

I AM trying to trace a brother and sister whom I have never met.

I WOULD like to trace my family that hails from Inverness. The family name is Hamilton.

I AM searching for George Thomson who was born on the Isle of Skye in 1914. His father's name was Robert Thomson. George had a sister named Christina, who apparently died sometime after 1940 of pneumonia in Edinburgh, at around 32 years of age.

I AM search searching for George Willam James Howard who may be in Scotland.

I AM hoping that you may assist me in my search for my father, who I have had no contact with since my family moved from Inverness in 1960.

I HAVE recently received this letter - and wonder if you would be able to publish it in hopes that I can find an answer. Letter as follows:

SHE passed away on July 28th 1987 in the Rossal Home, 31 Island Bank Road Inverness. Her nephew, Mr A C Macdonald of Wester Inshes is named on her death certificate.

I AM trying to trace my grandmother’s family on my father’s side. Her name was Catherine Stewart.

I AM writing a history of the impact on the Highlands of the Spanish Civil War 1936-39 and am trying to trace any surviving family of a Frank Bain Mackay.

I AM looking for descendents of Alexander Martin B Abt 1781 Inverness shire and Catherine McLean B Abt 1781 Inverness-shire

I AM seeking information about my late father, who I believe was born in Kingussie in 1900. He moved to Nairn as a small child.

I AM looking for relatives of my family of Maclean who came from Nairn. Great Grandfather was Alexander Maclean, House Carpenter and Builder, Park Lane, Balblair Road, Nairn.

I AM searching for Jean Irvine - this was her maiden name. Her mother’s name was Jessie and her father’s name was Ian Irvine.

WE are researching the history of the Inverness Small Bore Rifle Club, previously known as Clachnacuddin Small Bore Rifle Club, and wondered if any readers know anything about its history and development.

I HAVE recently returned from a coach holiday in the Highlands. Whilst there I was able to spend three or four hours in Inverness and I took the opportunity to retrace steps that I had first walked 50 or more years ago when I visited the town (as it was then) with my parents.