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What, basically, would a formal Cuindlis Families Association do? What purposes would it serve from the start?
Short-term goals, little funding required:
- Ensure that vendor sites and tartan databases list McCandlish/McCandless as an option, and have the correct thread counts and colors, for all 6 tartans.
- Scottish Tartans Authority has McCandlish Green with only one green hue in it: http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan-ferret/search-results/?src=1&key=McCandlish [E-mail has been sent to them about this as of May 2022.]
- House of Tartan does not list M[a]cCandlish at https://houseoftartan.co.uk/scottish/searchsurname.asp except as a family that can use Galloway district tartan; same with this site: https://www.plaidwerx.com/tartan-finder-mac.htm; not listed at all in https://www.scotlandshop.com/us/tartan-finder
- Scottish Register of Tartans had several errors. [Fixed in January 2022.]
- Clan.com had several errors. [Fixed in May 2022.]
- DC Dalgliesh has several errors (picked up from one of the old databases). [Sent e-mail about it in May 2022.]
- TheTartan https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database has errors in it, since it is based on previous databases, most of which were not entirely correct; data is in CSV format.
- Wedd’s List http://www.weddslist.com/tartans/links.html will probably suffer the same problem.
- Ensure that heraldic product vendors have the coat of arms correct (several do not, though the errors are subtle, most often missing oars on the galley).
- [List needed. House of Names is one.]
- Identify online lists of clan/family associations and get listed in them:
- ScotClans https://www.scotclans.com/pages/clan-societies-chiefs-representatives [E-mail sent to them in May 2022.]
- Tartans Authority http://www.tartansauthority.com/global-scots/us-scots-history/scotland-in-the-usa/clan-societies/ [E-mail sent to them in May 2022.]
- Clan Campbell Society (North America) has list here: https://www.ccsna.org/scottish-clan-societies-and-family-associations [E-mail sent to them in May 2022.]
- [There are others.]
- Provide freely reusable heraldic images. [Development in progress. Budget about $200.]
- Do outreach via social media to bring in more individual site users (potential members later).
- Incorporate as a registered charitable/educational organization – a 501(c)(3) in the US, or the UK equivalent.
- This will require some legal advice.
- After it is set up, it will require an annual meeting of boardmembers (which can be done via teleconference), published minutes of meetings, and annual tax paperwork.
- Setup cost estimated at US$500.
- Join the Council of Scottish Clans and Associations: https://www.cosca.net/ and https://www.cosca.scot/
- See also American-Scottish Foundation, St. Andrews Society, etc. – at very least they may maintain lists of clan/family associations.
- Set up a formal membership system after incorporating – will need some form of benefits to make this appealing.
- Canvass members for people going to Highland games events and ask them to post flyers about McCandlish/McCandless.
- Reach out to other clan/family associations about sharing some of their booth space at Highland games events. (The family is too small, the name too uncommon, to justify our own booth. But there is probably at least one “McC” at any given major event.)
- Produce an annual or more frequent newsletter.
- Take over ownership of this website and the tartan copyright license, in perpetuity. I’m in my 50s and won’t live forever, so some surety for the future is needed.
If the organization were only able to do most of the above list, I would consider it a success. What follows in later posts are ideas I’ve gotten from other family/clan associations.
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- Ensure that vendor sites and tartan databases list McCandlish/McCandless as an option, and have the correct thread counts and colors, for all 6 tartans.
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Medium-term goals, with some funding:
- Do further research on the name and heraldry – in Scotland and Ireland, etc., if necessary for access to sources.
- Some libraries to comb through: http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/BFHSFamilyTreeSearchResults.asp, https://www.electricscotland.com/familytree/about_odom.htm, https://huron.ogs.on.ca/family-histories/, http://www.heraldry-scotland.co.uk/, https://www.gwsfhs.org.uk/surname/mccandlish/, https://www.scotsgenealogy.com/FamilyHistories/FamilyHistoriesAll.aspx – some may require paid memberships).
- Develop a better website, with a professional (albeit occasional) maintainer.
- Provide genealogy resources on the website, starting with a cleaned-up version of Stanton McCandlish’s large GEDCOM file (will need an old OS 9 Apple Macintosh, to process the database into a modern format).
- These days, it might actually be better to ensure that the data is put into https://www.wikitree.com/ which is free; that would not require setting up a database on our end. But it would still be a lot of work.
- Web shop, for fund-raising (McCandlish tartan mugs, etc.); examples: https://www.cafepress.com/+clan-arthur+gifts, https://www.houseofburnett.org/shop, https://clancarrutherssociety.org/merchandise/, https://clanmackenziesociety.co.uk/shop/, https://clanmacleod.org/merchandise/
- Organize full-bolt buys of McCandlish tartan cloth at a discount and provide it to members at or near cost.
- Do further research on the name and heraldry – in Scotland and Ireland, etc., if necessary for access to sources.
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Long-term goals of other clan/family societies, with significant funding that might be out of the reach of a small family association with few members:
- Sponsor Highland-dance and pipe-and-drum teams.
- Host an annual general meeting or gathering, around one of the Highland games events (formal dinner, etc.)
- Set up a scholarship fund.
- Set up a charitable foundation aside from scholarships.
- Establish a genealogy research centre/library, and a genealogical database. Ex.: https://clanblair.org/cbs-library. Some books to get: https://worldcat.org/identities/viaf-316576872/
- Start a genetic (DNA) genealogy project: see examples: http://clanarthur.org/arthur-dna-project/, https://www.clanchisholmsociety.org/public/dna.php, https://clancarruthers.com/y-dna-project/; see also: https://isogg.org/wiki/Beginners’_guides_to_genetic_genealogy
- Paid executive director responsible for fundraising, etc.
- Establish an ancestral lands trust (if any ancestral lands are ever identified).
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