January 5  2003
Hello and  Welcome,


Sorry I cannot address you  personally at the moment, but let us not concern ourselves with  that.  Let me  extend to you a warm welcome to the O'Dochartaigh  Clann  Association.


Since you found one of our  websites  you may have learned some new and exciting things about our clan,  our  name of various spellings and things Irish.  Something else  you have probably  noticed is that the websites are undergoing  a new facelift as well as updated  and improved content.  The  management, and clan as a whole, is going through a  similar change.   We are in the process of forming a Not-for-profit corporation  in  the USA and forming committees of various types, and changing our  form of  government by soon electing a board.  We are on the move  in so many  ways.


If that's not enough (forming  a new  corporation, establishing committees and improving our websites),  wehave two other major projects  in the  works right now.  We are hard at work preparing for our next  Grand-Reunion  which will be held in Ireland (this marks our 5th one in Ireland)  the summer of 2005.  We are also working hard at finding Dohertys  throughout the  world and letting them know about us.  It is our  hope that they join the  association and make improvements of their  own.


I am informing you of these  activities, because we could  use some help.  I believe that there are many  people who would  love to help.  So I am spreading the word.  I also believe that  we will be a better group if we involved everyone who wanted to  help- even if it  is only a couple hours a month.


I promise that you will not  need to work more than this, that it would be from your own home,  that you could  come in and out of active service as your schedule  lets you, that you can move  to other committees as your interest  leads or as we develop new committees, and  that you will have  fun meeting lots of active and exciting people.  We are  betting  on the fact that lots of you join.  It is how we are structured.   If it  doesn't happen, we won't exist long.  But, survive we  have!


We survive today because many  people want to share our common heritage, research deeper than  ever our origins  and early Doherty & Irish history, share  genealogy, compile genealogical  records, and preserve historical  artifacts for future generations.  We need to  bring our scattered  clan back together.  We need to help those thousands of  family  members who are now working alone.  We need to provide every  O'Dochartaigh  family descendant with the wonderful knowledge of his or her  heritage.


If these goals get you  excited,  than do yourself and your extended family a favor and get in touch  with  me.  See how much fun it will be getting involved in this  great  cause.


Be Involved.  Feel Involved.   There  isn't anything like it!  If interested click here!