The activities to date
of the Society Archive Committee are summarised
below:
● At the 2004
AGM of the Society members discussed the need to
safeguard
the records of the Society created
over the past 50 years.
● In
2005 the Chief considered that there was merit in establishing
an
archives for the Society’s
records.
●
In mid 2006
the Chief appointed Grahame Thom, Australian Branch, as
a
member of the Society’s
Archives Committee.
●
Grahame Thom
published an article in the 2006 edition of Clach A’
Choilich
titled “The Clan Archives” -
Vol 6 No 1, pp 24-25, 28.
●
In mid 2007,
Pam Thom representing the European Branch and
Hamish
Thoms representing the
USA/Canadian Branch were appointed to
the
Archives Committee, with
Grahame Thom as Chairman of the
Committee.
●
The
Committee’s Terms of Reference were approved by Council
in
September 2007,and published
in the 2007 Newsletter, together with
a
request for a stock-take of
Society records and assets (partially
successful).
●
A draft
Collections Policy was submitted to Council in January
2008.
Comments received from a
number of officials and members.
●
A second
draft Collections Policy, and a paper on options for
establishing an
archives, a library and a
museum put to Council in June
2008.The
Collections Policy was
approved by Council in late 2008.
●
At the
request of Finegand, a paper on costs in relation to the
Committee’s
proposals submitted in July
2008.
●
At the
request of Council the Committee submitted in February 2009
a
draft set of guidelines on
the retention of documents and other
items.
●
In September
2009 Hamish Thoms resigned from the
Committee.
●
A draft
Disposal Schedule and a proposal for establishing the
Society’s
Archives in Perth were
submitted in September 2009 for consideration
by
Council.
● In April 2010 Council approved
the Disposal Schedule and associated
guidelines,
and for establishing the Society's archives in
Perth.
●
A number of items were
lodged with the Archives in Perth following
the
Clan's Gathering
at Glenshee in May 2011. A list of these items can be
found
in the Members
Secure Area of this website.
●
In May
2016 Dr Robert Thomson from North America joined the
Committee.
●
In July
2016 Pamela Thom resigned from the
Committee.
● In November 2016 an electronic archive created "in the
Cloud" and images
of
the MS Latta deposited in that
location.
●
In March
2017 back copies of the Clach na Coileach magazine
were lodged
with
the National Library of
Scotland in Edinburgh, following a
request from
that
organisation.
● In May
2017 committee member, Dr Robert Thomson, from North
America
passed
away.
● During 2018 Virginia McComb Kring, from North
America, joined the committee.
● In March 2019 the North American Branch lodged material in the Odom Library in Moulrie, Georgia, USA where it joined the material previous placed there by MNA.
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Grahame Thom,
Chairman.
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List of
Material in Clan Archives in Perth
List of
Materials in the Clan Library in Troy, USA
List of
Material in the Odom Genealogical Library in Moultrie, Georgia, USA. (Deposited by Clan MacThomas NA Branch )
List of
Material in the Odom Genealogical Library in Moultrie, Georgia, USA. (Deposited by MacThomas North America)
Archive
Committee Terms of
Reference
External
Archive "in the Cloud".
Contact
the Archive Committee
Further archive type material can be found in various sections of this website.
