Clan MacMillan International News.
Clan MacMillan's historian and genealogist Graeme Mackenzie turns 75.
10 August 2026
Graeme and George enjoy a stop at a Plockton coffee shop with other MacMillans. This was part of a two-day tour of the Highlands included in the 2007 clan gathering.
On 9 September our Clan Historian and Genealogist, Graeme Mackenzie, will turn seventy-five. This seems a good chance to acknowledge the enormous debt owed to him by Clan MacMillan and to plug some gaps in the story of his life presented on the clanmacmillan.org website.
Even before our paths crossed (around 1988), Graeme had formed the Glen Urquhart Macmillan Society, whose members, including his own family, were by then scattered across the globe.
That was only the beginning. His achievements since then (none of which gets a mention in the biography on the web site) have included: The creation of Clan MacMillan International, to help the Chief to serve the Clan; Pioneering a Clan website; Issuing two periodicals a year for nearly forty years; Project MAOL (MacMillan Ancestry On Line – a huge genealogical resource now accessed by annual subscription); Several interesting gatherings; A number of authoritative books about the Clan’s history.
I must have been one of the luckiest of Chiefs to be supported by the vision, initiative and scholarship of a man like Graeme Mackenzie as I tried to ‘serve the Clan’. To him, foremost among a handful of sage supporters, I’m profoundly grateful.
George MacMillan
CMI newsletter and magazine archives have been compiled into three printed volumes.
27 Febuary 2023
Graeme Mackenzie MA has compiled CMI's newsletter and magazine into three volumes dating from 1993 to 2019. These may be ordered directly from Graeme (not the Clan MacMillan International Centre). More information about the printed versions is available on the Books and Publications page including four PDFs which list the magazine/newsletter articles.
Clan MacMillan North Central States is now represented in Michigan.
28 May 2022
After five years of attending the St. Andrew's Society of Detroit Highland Games Kenzie Dunham and her husband Matthew noticed the lack of representation for Clan MacMillan in both merchandise vendors and on Clan Row. During the 2021 Detroit Highland Games Ceilidh, they were discussing what it takes to get a tent on Clan Row with members of Clan MacKinnon - who are also a descendant from Airbertach. This led to the realization that there is no current Clan Branch in the state of Michigan, so Kenzie and Matthew began the search of how to get Clan MacMillan represented in the state of Michigan. After joining Clan MacMillan International and several emails to both the Clan Chief George MacMillan, and North Central States Minnesota convener Mike McMillen, we can proudly say that Clan MacMillan will be in attendance at the St. Andrew's Society of Detroit Highland Games August 5-6, 2022.
Kenzie Dunham, Michigan Convener