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Clan Hannay Society West now doormat!! (Dec, 2007)

 We lack the volunteer help to attend the highland games of that this is too large of a geographic area to get any kind of camaraderie going that would encourage a strong branch. And as small as this clan is, when we do set up at a gathering, that usually means one member, sitting in a tent for 2 days, hoping to see one, maybe two Hannas. It is dispiriting and it has lead all of those who have been excited about the clan in the past to drop away. You may recall when Ted Hanna was involved, most of the stalwart members lived within a somewhat close range of each other. I live in Southern California. Dick Cloutier lives in Oregon, at least 1,000 miles away, and Michele lives in Washington, another state even further north. When we had a newsletter editor, she lived in Arizona, probably 500 miles from me. It is absolutely impossible to have the events in between highland games to create cohesion and friendships to build the branch. I have asked for new volunteers to take leadership positions and it has not produced any results.

 

Therefore, we will be closing up our books in the coming weeks, and sending a letter to the members (about 125) telling them that--while I won’t call it disbanding (mainly because I don’t have a board willing to vote on it)--but going dormant for the time being. We will not be accepting new applications for membership at this time, and I will direct those members to send their annual dues to the Clan Hannay Society. That way your group won’t suffer from a loss of funds—hopefully. I would like to keep our web site up, with basic Hannay history, but with a link to the Clan Hannay Society’s. We will no longer be offering any clan wares. When someone steps up to take on the management of Clan Hannay Society West, you may direct them to me and I will send them the wares I have on hand, and any printed materials they may need.  

 Convenor,  Georgeann "Gigi" Hanna-Barber

 

 

Annual Clan Hannay Society West, USA meeting.

The annual general meeting for CHSW will be held at the Vista games (San Diego) on June 25, 2005 at 1 p.m.

 

Guest Book suspended!

Our Guestbook has been hacked into and has been made inoperable at this time. We have suspended the use of the Guestbook until further notice.

 

New Website in operation as of March 28, 2003

Check out the "Contents" page for new listings. We have upgraded the "Guestbook" and "Search" pages. For those that have posted messages on the old website, we are sorry that we could not transfer your messages due to a new and better Guestbook program. Feel free to resubmit your comments or inquires. Click on this link to view the old Guestbook

 

New Item in the "Clan Goods" page

We now have a new tee-shirt design.   Only $13 for adults and $11 for children sizes.  Please visit and check out  these new shirts!

 

Guest Book

We have had some problems with our guest book program at the server level ( our website host ).  We lost all of our comments and inquires from  May 2001 forward.  We apologize to those of you that had put information on that page.  I am in the process of fixing the page with the help of our website host.  9/30/02

 

New Web Addresses

Two new addresses have been obtained by the Clan Hannay Society West, USA.  

www.ClanHannay.us  this  address is active and will direct the user to our regular site for the time being.  Eventually, we will change everything over to the "ClanHannay.us" address.   Since we are viewed worldwide, it would only seem fitting the we use the "us" country code to identify were we are at.  

 

Name Change

The "Clan Hanna Society West, USA" has changed the name to "Clan Hannay Society West, USA".  This name change was put to vote on Sept 1, 2001 at the annual society meeting.  Our society was the only one with the name of "Hanna" and we felt it would be more in line to change to the "Hannay" spelling.

 

Currency Converter - converts any currency to your currency - vice / versa.  Great tool if your planning a trip to another country. 

Website:

The Clan Hanna Society West now accepts membership applications online.  We now are able to take payment via Visa and Master Card.

Download a membership form for traditional mail in.

Online Forms

 

Merchandise can be paid for and shipped within one day with credit card purchases.

Payment Information

 

Wanted:

History, News articles, Factual accounts and stories of the Hanna, Hannah, Hannay, Hanney, etc families from around the world.  I have very little information of the family in Ireland.  Perhaps, the writings of Patrick Hanna or other notable family members.

The Clan Hanna Society West would like to record and share this information through this website. 

Richard "Dick" Cloutier

Webmaster