Clan McAlister of America

Announcements:

The next CMA Board of Directors meeting is scheduled for Thursday, 10 October 2024 at 7:00 pm Eastern time. This will be a virtual meeting via Zoom. CMA members interested in observing the meeting should send an email to cma-webmaster@clanmcalister.org for instructions on how to attend.

The CMA 2024 Gathering will be held in San Antonio, TX from 17-20 October. Find the details here. If you register and later must cancel, both the Gathering registration & banquet payments are fully refundable until 3 October.

The 2024 San Antonio Gathering Program Schedule is now available to view. (However, please note that the program is subject to change up until the event.)

If you are planning to attend the 2024 CMA Gathering in San Antonio, TX, please read the proposed changes to the CMA Bylaws and be prepared to vote at the Gathering on whether to accept them.

It's official! The next CMA Gathering will be held in San Antonio, Texas from 17-20 October 2024!

Clan McAlister of America (CMA), the brainchild of the late Paul Emmitt Towry (A05), was founded in 1990 by him and other volunteers with the mission of searching for, preserving, and sharing McAlister (of whatever spelling) genealogy and history.

CMA currently has identified 350 separate McAlister Family Lines containing over 100,000 individuals, and is continuously extending and connecting those Lines through identification of common ancestors and descendants. CMA also collaborates in a robust FamilyTreeDNA “McAlister DNA Project” incorporating genetic genealogy using Y-DNA, mitochondrial DNA, and autosomal DNA. If you are a McAlister or related to one, we can help you search for your ancestors.

The CMA Wiki Repository, accessable for free by all CMA members, is a digital data resource of 30 years of CMA research and documentation. Among other items, it includes sasines, censuses, parochial birth and death records, and other documents, some dating from the 16th century, as well as CMA ancestral family line information.

Our quarterly Journal + Newsletter features articles on family histories, Scottish history and culture, and genealogical matters. CMA also hosts a biennial Gathering of members and prospective members to discuss genealogy and to socialize among like-minded individuals.

CMA currently has active members around the world. If you are a McAlister (of whatever spelling), related to a McAlister, or just interested in McAlister genealogy, you can join or rejoin CMA by clicking on the button above.