Welcome to my Macalister history web site!
If you have questions or suggestions or just want to say hello, you can contact me at macalister.history@gmail.com
Here are some other useful sites for Macalister research:
- Clan MacAlister Society
- Clan McAlister of America
- Families in British India Society
- Anglo-Boer War website
- Scottish Emigration Database
- Scotland’s People (official genealogy site – £)
- Cyndi’s List
- Clan Macalister Australia
PLEASE NOTE: In blog posts, where full source information is not given, that information can be found in my list of sources.
Today in Macalister History 
Donald Macalister is my step brother and Betty is my Step Aunt.
Hi Lynn, Thanks for putting together the new blog page… I hope it will get lots of hits and become a top favorite… Dennis
Hello there I am so grateful I found your blog, I really found you by error, while I was searching on Askjeeve for
something else, Anyways I am here now and would just like to say many thanks for a incredible
post and a all round entertaining blog (I also love the theme/design), I don’t have time to look over it all at
the moment but I have saved it and also included your RSS feeds,
so when I have time I will be back to read a lot more, Please do keep up the superb jo.
Glad you like it, and thanks for saying so! 🙂
Hi Lynn, Was walking in Kintyre above Killean the other day and came upon a gravestone in a very secluded place in the forest. The inscription on the stone states = James Macalister Hall Killean & Tangy Aug. 1 1922. Know that you have researched him and will forward pics to you of the stone if you want.
That would be great, thanks! We were there last year, and will be back this autumn, but usually in too much a hurry (friends to see elsewhere in Scotland) to see much.
Pictures of stone in the forest above Killean as promised. John Ferguson
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 20:17:51 +0000 To: fergie611@hotmail.co.uk
They’re not showing up. Did you post them to the blog?
Tried to post them to the blog but obviously didnt work. If you send me your E mail add will send them to you personally. John Ferguson
You can send them to me at
macalister@one-name.org
I stumbled upon this stone the other day aswell, and a Google search of the inscription led me here. I had no idea it was someone so significant, in such a secluded place in the forest. Quite fascinating
Glad you found us, Andrew. Kind of makes you wonder who else might be buried in odd places whose markers just haven’t survived – or been discovered, doesn’t it?
So thankful to you guys for this blog. I finally found my Great gran-dad, Anthony W McAllister from the FIBIS link. Thank you!
Wow – how exciting! Thanks for telling me! 🙂
Max – haven’t forgotten you, we’ve just been crazy busy. This is the best address for the Macalister Australia site? let me know and I will add the link.
YES LYNN.MY ORIGINAL MACALISTER WEBSITE ADDRESS WAS …..WWW.VICNET.NET.GOV/~CLANMACA,I THINK YOU CAN STILL ACCESS IT BUT IT IS NOW THROUGH …..WWW.ROOTSWEB.GOV,THEN LINK , CLAN MACALISTER.
THOUGHT YOU HAD ALREADY DONE THAT SOME TIME AGO
ANYHOW LYNN, MY COMPUTER TECH. HAS ADDED THAT INFORMATION ON THE BOTTOM OF MY SIGNATURE
COP THIS BIG XMAS KISS FOR YOU…….XXXXX
REGARDS,
MAX M.ESQ.
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Hello,
I’m visiting Scotland and I’m a McAllister, and I was wondering if you could help me because I would like to know if there is anywhere I can join and learn more about where my family Heritage
There are two Macalister organisations in North America – Clan Macalister Society (clanmacalistersociety.org), which focuses on heritage, Highland games, etc., and Clan McAlister of America (clanmcalister.org), which focuses on genealogy, dna research, etc. If you take a look at the timeline attached to this blog, you will find a chronology of the clan’s history that might be of help. Please feel free to contact me off page (macalister.history@gmail.com) if you want to talk about your upcoming trip as I might be able to make some MacAlister-related suggestions for you there.
And we Alexanders are tuned in, too….Dr. Stan