• Please inform the Membership Secretary of any changes to your email address.  Send a message to the Membership Secretary from your new address informing him of the change.  Your email address is just as important as your postal address.  Even a minor change to your email address could prevent you from receiving important news.  Supplying your email address to the Clan will enable you to receive timely information and important announcements.

• As a timely method of communication with your Clan officials and announcements between newsletters, the Clan Scott Society maintains a private email distribution system.  This email system, called CLAN-SCOTT and distributed from Rootsweb, is for the exclusive use of Clan members – no one else can use the distribution list.  More than 80% of the membership receives timely news and other communication from the Clan's leadership from this official Clan email distribution system. 

When you supply your email address, you automatically are added to this list in Regular Mode.  If you prefer, you may request to be changed to Digest Mode.  Digest Mode gathers all the day's messages into one email, adds a table of contents to the top of the combined messages, and sends it to you no more than once a day.  At the present time, the CLAN-SCOTT list is a low-traffic distribution list and it isn't very common to receive more than one message a day even in Regular Mode.  There can be several weeks between messages in some instances.  You cannot change the mode the CLAN-SCOTT list sends messages.  Please send a message to the Membership Secretary requesting the change to Digest mode if you prefer it.

While you can remove yourself from the list, we highly encourage you to stay on the distribution list so you can participate and stay informed.

• For those interested in pursuing their Scott family genealogy, the Clan Scott Society has been a long-time sponsor of the SCOTT surname genealogy email distribution list.  This free list in not limited to Clan Scott members and has 800 Scott surname researchers subscribing world-wide.  Instructions for sending messages will be sent to you when you subscribe to the list.  

If you'd like to subscribe or unsubscribe to the SCOTT mailing list, simply send an email message to SCOTT-request@rootsweb.com with the message SUBSCRIBE  or UNSUBSCRIBE - depending on your intent - and nothing else (no signature, enhanced text, or HTML).  Anything on the subject line will do.

To send a message to the SCOTT list for re-distribution to subscribers, address your email to SCOTT@rootsweb.com - note that the word "request" is missing from the address.  The "request" address is used to subscribe and unsubscribe from the list.

Alternatively, you can subscribe to the SCOTT list in digest mode.  This list contains the same messages as the regular SCOTT list, but are gather up and sent in one combined message on a daily basis - assuming at least message was sent to the list.  To subscribe or unsubscribe to this list, send a message to SCOTT-D-request@rootsweb.com with only the word SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE in the message body.   Messages to SCOTT-D list subscribers should be directed to SCOTT@rootsweb.com - this insures subscribers to both versions of the list receive your message.

Allow a day for the subscribe or unsubscribe request to take effect.  There are often several messages in the pipeline before yours.  You will receive a welcoming or confirmation message once your request is processed.  If you have any difficulty subscribing/unsubscribing or sending messages to the list, please feel free to contact the List Administrator (SCOTT-admin@rootsweb.com) for assistance.

• Clan Scott Society also sponsors the related Balwearie, Buccleuch, Buckalew, Bucklew, Harden, Laidlaw, and  Langlands surname lists at Rootsweb.  Subscribing or unsubscribing to these lists is an identical process – just change the surname for the list.

For a complete list and more information about Clan Scott Society sponsored surname lists, visit Clan Scott Society Sponsored Surname Lists.

Last Updated 18April2008 dms        (c)2000-2008 Clan Scott Society, Inc.