Pat wrote: > ... > Does anyone know how to contact (if it still exists) the Associate > Congregation of Forres for the records of the Ashers that are not > on the IGI. Most of the Associate Congregations, which were a set of 18th century splinter group from the Kirk of Scotland, were progressively absorbed back into first the United Presbyterian Church, then the United Free Church, and at least some of that grouping rejoined the Kirk of Scotland in 1929. However, Diane Baptie's book on the "Registers of the Secession Churches" states that the baptism records for the Forres congregation for the period 1772-1792 are "recorded at the end of Forres Church of Scotland OPR" and are held at New Register House, Edinburgh. That probably means that they will be found on the microfilm of the Forres OPRs. > What denomination was it? Like the Kirk of Scotland, from which they split, and to which most of them eventually returned, the Associate Congregations were Protestant, largely Calvinist in their doctrine, and Presbyterian in their form of government. Gavin Bell