Report of the 17th International Gathering of the Clan Macfie and ...

Report by the Keeper of the Clan Records
to the 10
th
Clan Macfie Parliament.
Little work has been done in collating all the information that is out there. Despite
appeals at previous Parliaments to have all relevant Macfie information copied to the
Keeper.
There have been a number of requests for information relating to specific
individuals, but because there is so little research carried out in Scotland, on Clan
names, it is difficult to come to someone’s aid. There is also the problem of linking
from, in particular, America and Canada back to Scotland as many of the parish
records were destroyed at the time of the reformation. So we need to encourage this
aspect of research. Perhaps that is a project that we need to consider.
Three books have been purchased, two on heraldry the other on Clans. The first is
‘Boutell’s Heraldry’ by J.P. Brooke-Little who at the time of writing was the Norroy
and Ulster King of Arms. The second is ‘Scots Heraldry’ by Sir Thomas Innes of
Learney Lord Lyon King of Arms, which was written in 1934 and enlarged in 1956,
the date of the copy in the library. The other book is a first edition copy of Ian
Grimble’s ‘Clans and Chiefs.’ It explores the origins of tribalism among the Celtic
peoples of Europe and how it was brought to Scotland.
In these days we have ways of storing and disseminating incredible amounts of
information. So may I appeal to each Society to gather all the info they or their
members may have put on a flash/pen drive and pass it on to the KotR. The greater
the amount of information we have on families and their origins will allow the KotR
to help others who are researching their family and when they have completed
perhaps they could be persuaded to add their findings to our knowledge base.
Iain M McFie
Keeper of the Records
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