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Clan MacFarlane Worldwide
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Clan MacFarlane Worldwide is a 501-c-3 non-profit
organization that supports education projects, archaeology of our
homelands, and our athletes, etc.
Our mission is to explore,
document, preserve and share the history, heritage and traditions of
ancient Clan MacFarlane and to serve as a connection for all
MacFarlane Clan and Sept descendants worldwide.
In August of 2017,
Clan MacFarlane Worldwide was one of the Honoured Clans at the Fergus
Scottish Festival and Highland Games where we had our annual AMM
which was well attended. This gave us the opportunity to extend a
hand of friendship to all MacFarlane descendants, Sept descendants
and those who shared our interest in the heritage of Clan MacFarlane.
Having visitors to our clan tent is a great way for us to endeavor to
bring together those interested in this heritage through our growing
membership which is now over over 1600 and growing every day. Our
Facebook page is very close to 2500 members.
Being at the Games
also gave us the opportunity to reach out and introduce people to our
DNA project plus encourage them to join. There have been comments
that Clan MacFarlane DNA project has one of the largest and best
managed projects.
One of the events planned during the week of our
AMM was a lecture on Charters at the University of Guelph. Working
with the staff at the Scottish Studies and the Archival Special
Collections Library was a great experience.
Our President, Preston
McFarland and our Archaeology member Peter McFarlin previously
discovered many Muniments in a chest stored in the basement of a
Library Archives in Scotland. These MacFarlane documents were copied
by Preston and Peter and require translation. This will take a while
and we are looking for some volunteers. Preston stated that one of
the best parts of our 2017 AMM was the professional and expert
contacts they made at the University of Guelph.
In 2017, CMW
sponsored Creag a Phuirt “The Alms-House”
archaeology dig, on the shore of Loch Lomond and this was a great
success. We believe that the Alms-House was built by King James in
the 16th century and were able to produce a detailed report on the
project. Dr. Heather James did an excellent job documenting the
dig.
Clan MacFarlane also has an extensive Genealogical site for
our members. Our genealogical research and site is kept up by four of
our members.
In 2017, donations were made to the Arrochar
Heritage and The Three Villages in Scotland. These two organizations
have done a great job in sharing the history of Clan MacFarlane and
we’re pleased to be able to support them. We also supported
Jennifer Knox and her son John Davis-Knox, who compete in the
athletics events at several different games. We wish them success as
they represent themselves, their ancestry, and CMW in 2018.
During
the CMW Board of Directors’ January 2018 meeting, it was
approved that we provide information and updates to our members a new
method. Starting in 2018, the newsletter “Loch Sloy”
quarterly will be discontinued. A popular publication, we decided
that information that should be available on a more timely basis.
Instead, CMW will provide 2 different methods of deliver. The “LOCH
SLOY” (monthly) will now be the new monthly newsletter that
will provide dates and additional information about Clan MacFarlane
Worldwide activities such as games calendar, listing of Directors and
Executive and a few bits of updated information. It will be posted to
the website: http://www.clanmacfarlane.org
and available to anyone as well as our Facebook page.
All the
articles that were published in the former magazine will now be
published at our website in a new blog format that will allow our
users to search through articles they wish to read. When something
new is published to the website, the members will be provided with an
abstract of the article or teaser of the information. We feel that
when the editor is ready to retire, it will be much easier for a new
volunteer to take on this project for Clan MacFarlane Worldwide.
In
2018, our AMM will be at the Longs Peak Scottish-Irish Highland
Festival at Estes Park in Colorado, September 6th – 9th .There
is a Bus Trip to Scotland planned for CMW in 2019. Keep an eye on our
CMW website as plans progress.
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