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The various clan societies
do a really excellent job and they are all volunteers doing amazing work
and traveling many hours to attend these events and often carrying quite
some expense in so doing. They do it because they are proud of their clan
and are keen to get new members and inform others about their clan and its
history. Often the clan society will have access to genealogical
information not available elsewhere and really are a great resource. Many
of them also produce newsletters, some monthly and others once a year but
always informative.
I will say that several of
the clans gave me material which I will put up on the site at a later date
and my thanks for their generosity in sharing this material with me and
our site visitors.
Here we have first of all the Clan MacKenzie
who kindly hosted my visit to Glengarry and provided me with a space to
store all the papers I collected at the event. On the right are the Clan
MacCrimmon.
Click here to see Clan MacLennan Paperwork
Click here to see some
of the material the Clan Maxwell gave me
You can see there are both young, very young
and older so various generations are carrying the clan tradition on in
their families. At Glengarry there were two barns that housed all the clan
tents. I'm told last year was a great year for them as they had tremendous
rain and so these barns were a great place to get out of the rain :-)
Click here to see paperwork from the Clan Donald
Click here to see paperwork from Clan MacLeod
You can see that many clan tents had
interesting information on display along with copies of past newsletters,
photos of clan gathering and much else besides
Click here to see paperwork from the Clan
MacDougall
The games also had a genealogist on hand that
was going talks during the day
And while noting all that good Scottish food
it was onto the next barn to see the rest of the clans
Click here to see newsletter of Clan Johnston/e
Click here to read about the history of Clan
Fergusson
And ithe author of this book , Hugh R. MacMillan, kindly gave me permission to publish one of his old books about
the Lochaber Emigrants to Glengarry for which many thanks.
Learn more about Hugh MacMillan and his books
So now you've seen what a
clan tent village looks like you'll see that loads of information can be
obtained by talking to these experts. Even if your own clan is not
represented you will probably find someone here that can tell you how to
contact your clan and likely even give you some of its history from their
long clan associations. It is like being a special community as you
will find many of these people at other gatherings and indeed many of them
said... "See you at Fergus" :-)
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