Clan MacFarlane Worldwide, Inc.

2019 CMW Annual Member's Meeting

Yolo County Fairgrounds

Woodland, California

April 27 & 28

Where: Woodland, California for the Woodland Celtic Games http://woodlandcelticgames.org/

For info about Woodland see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodland,_California.   Also see: https://www.pinterest.com/cowparksnrec/historic-woodland/.   Since the late 1960s, there has been a greater interest in preserving the town's historic buildings, and an impressive number of them have been restored for use as homes, offices, stores and museums. It is well worth a few minutes to drive a few key streets off historic main street to see these beautifully maintained homes. I can put together a map/addresses for those interested. For info about Sacramento see https://www.visitsacramento.com/things-to-do/.  (there is Old Town, a refurbished gold rush-era district, a train museum, auto museum, active arts scene, wonderful restaurants, etc.)

When: April 27-28, 2019This is a medium-sized two day game. 

If there are travelers that would want to come in early we could arrange a visit to the McFarland Living History Ranch in Galt, CA, http://mcfarlandranch.org/ which would be about a 45 minute drive away. 

Transportation: Sacramento International Airport(It is a 16-minute drive from the Sacramento International Airport to Woodland.) Some of the hotels, listed below, have free airport shuttles. 

Once you get to town, we can organize carpools, etc.  No one will be left out of anything as long as you communicate your location and needs. ****

Lodging Suggestions:Please make your reservations ASAP to ensure you get a room… this is a small town and hotels fill up quickly.  It would be better to make a reservation and then cancel it if necessary, then wait and not get in. 

Holiday Inn Express 2070 Freeway Drive, Woodland, CA 

Hampton Inn and Suites 2060 Freeway Drive, Woodland, CA 

Fairfield Inn and Suites (Marriott) 2730 El Centro Road, Sacramento, CA 

Best Western Shadow Inn 584 N East Street, Woodland (This is the host hotel for this Caledonian Club event… not for CMW… we are not designating a host hotel.)

There is limited RV parking at the Yolo County Fairgrounds. My instructions have been to watch the website in early January for directions for making reservations. 

Weather:The average low temperatures in April are 40s to 50s, and the average high temperatures are 70s-80s… usually pleasant spring weather. 

Annual Membership Meetingwill be held Saturday at 2:00 PM at the clan tent at the Game. 

***please email hosts Don and Laurie Jackson at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.your arrival/departure dates and times, along with your lodging arrangement.  This will help us better plan for activities, meals, and transportation.  

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Twigs to Trees

December,  2018

Mary Helen Haines

Happy Holiday Season everyone. For this column I have tried to put together the most recent results of the Big Y testers that fall into Block 5 of the Big Y tree, RDF63. I can remember when I first joined the project with my two male cousins’ kits in 2006. At that time, we were only looking at STRs and all of the men mentioned below do match with STRs with varying degrees of closeness. There was no way to determine if they were 4^th cousins or 18^th cousins. That now seems eons ago; so much progress has been made since then. Today, with the Big Y test, we are able to see the development of different lineages over time and begin to figure out how far back we are all connected within a haplogroup.

I just received the Big Y results from my cousin’s kit and we discovered a new SNP associated with our line, so now we can say that all male McFarland descendants of John McFarland, born 1739 in Lancaster Co. PA, who married Mary Kinder in VA around 1763, will carry this SNP. However, until we have a tester who descends from John and Mary Montgomery McFarland’s other sons, we will not know if this SNP begins with John and Mary Kinder McF. or goes back to the parent or the grandparent. So, I am putting out the call for more male McFarlands from this lineage of Robert McFarland, born abt. 1675 in northern Ireland, married to Jennet, to do the full Big Y test when they can afford it. Or, if you carry the SNP BY3019 and do not descend from John and Mary Kinder McFarland, your Big Y test results will add to our knowledge of this line. Where and when does BY3019 begin?

The October 2018 Issue of the Loch Sloy! is now avaiable.
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