HOW TO JOIN THE SOCIETY

Simply click on this link, General Secretary or Charles E. "Chuck" MacNab, send an email message indicating your interest, and you will be emailed an application, instructions on how to join, and some background materials to help in your decision.

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Click on this link and go directly to the application, print out the blank, fill it in and mail it.

Our thanks for supporting the Clan!

 

Membership cost is ....... $20.00 (U.S.) for a single household membership. There is a $5.00 "passage fee" upon first joining. Dues are due on the 1st day of January, each year.

The Society cannot accept payment in other than U.S. dollars because of high bank charges involved in currency conversion.

However, for the convenience of our members, especially our Canadian and overseas members, we have made arrangments to pay by CREDIT CARD. Please click HERE if you wish to go to a page where you can pay by credit card.

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Clan Macnab Society, Inc.

Anyone who bears the name, or is descended from one bearing the name of Macnab, Abbott, Abbotson, Dewar, Gilfillan or Macandeoir in any of their varient spellings, or who has a special affinity with Clan Macnab or a special interest in Scottish history, is encouraged to join Clan Macnab Society, Inc. and help us build a strong world-wide organization.

A most important goal is to provide a way for Macnabs to get to know one another. To that end, we encourage members to attend Highland gatherings and events worldwide, especially those across the United States and Canada, sponsor a Clan tent and wear the tartan at such gatherings. Clan Macnab Society, Inc. provides a world class website, furnishes membership cards and publishes a newsletter. Members are urged to join each other at events and write the Newsletter Editor about their attendance and involvement in Scottish events and gatherings so that our worldwide membership can be informed of these activities.

Clan Macnab Society, Inc. is on the leading edge of internet communications using the world wide web. Events in history may have scattered Macnab descendants to the four corners of the globe but widespread use of personal computer communications has presented the opportunity to bring us back together. We can now get together "electronically" and review our common interests. As an old Scottish saying goes, "The blood is strong." and no matter how remote one's ancestry is, that feeling of Highland heritage comes to the surface. If you have an ancestor that roamed the Highland Glens around Tyndrum and Loch Tay or if you have an interest in Scottish history, we invite you to join our Society.

Please send all correspondence and inquiries to:

Charles E. MacNab, General Secretary
Clan Macnab Society, Inc.
P.O. Box 914
O'Fallon, MO 63366-0914

E-Mail: macnab@macnab.org

ORIGINS OF THE MACNABS

CLAN ALPIN: Tradition claims CLAN MACALPIN or MACALPINE as the oldest and most purely Celtic of the Highland Clans, of royal descent from the dynasty of Kenneth MacAlpin who united Picts and Scots into one kingdom from the year 850, and transferred his capital to Perthshire, from Dun Add in Dalraida (beside Loch Crinan). However, no clan of that name survived into the heyday of the clan system, though individual MacAlpins are recorded from the 13th century, mostly then in Perthshire. Clan MacGregor claims origin from that royal MacAlpin stock as also do MacQuarrie, MacAulay, MacDuff, MacFie, MacKinnon and Macnab.

ref: Scots Kith & Kin, 2nd ed., Neil & Co, Glasgow.

According to tradition the original (Macnab) ancestor was the younger son of Kenneth MacAlpin, the king of the Scots, who united the Picts and Scots. He was Abbot of Glendochart and Strathearne. The Macnabs are members of the Siol-an-Alpine, otherwise called Clan Alpine, together with the MacKinnons, Grants, MacQuarries and the MacAulays.

ref: Clan Macnab, A Short History by Clan Macnab Society (U.K.)