Introduction - Recent history of the data base.

Dec 2021. This body of genealogy is the recently recovered and preserved Clan Donald data base. The data base was originally prepared by the Clan Donald Society Edinburgh, which closed in 2007. With the closing of the Edinburgh Society, this important Clan Donald asset should have been transferred to the Clan Donald Society of Scotland, but, for whatever reason, it was not. To complicate the issue, it has not been possible to contact the original compiler, webmaster. However, it has now been re-assembled into this new genealogy programme by obtaining and using the raw data sets utilized by the Clan Donald USA DNA Project. The data base is composed of 6060 individuals, 2499 families with 1116 unique family names. This data will be improved over time as accuracy is checked, errors corrected, and more details added (suitable, qualified genealogy administrators are yet to be selected and approved by the High Council). The digitised collection of the Clan Donald Society of Edinburgh's Clan Donald Magazine, going back to 1953, has also been recovered and is located on this website under the tab "History & Culture". The feature articles on the right are quick points of entry into the Genealogy Database for some well-known Clan Donald identities. Their antecedents and progeny can then be traced easily by clicking on their fathers, mothers, children, and siblings. This important project has been sponsored by the Council of Finlaggan, and was led by Ian Macdonnell, Australia, the Castle Aros Councillor.