One last GA item for today:  Airing today on BBC television is an episode of “Who Do You Think You Are?” a series that explores with an individual their genealogy.  Tonight, the individual is David Tennant, the actor currently playing Doctor Who.  (For those not familiar with this long running British Sci/Fi TV series, Doctor Who is about a time traveler and his adventures.)

According to news accounts of the episode David Tennant, in doing the research for the show, discovers ancestors active in the Orange Order in Northern Ireland as well as a Catholic branch of the family.  One of the news accounts mentions that David is the son of the Very Rev. Sandy MacDonald, a former moderator of the Church of Scotland.  (see I told you there was a GA connection)  A longer article from the Sunday Times gives a lot more detail but leaves out the important (to us) bit about his father serving as moderator.