The Gathering 2009 in Edinburgh, preceded by the Genealogy Festival, Glasgow

My Dear Clanfolk,

Saints preserve us ! Not only is the wife going to accompany me, but LBMacK is going w/ cousin, Ruth, w/ us on the Clan Macduff Tour, which starts in Glasgow, 15 July 2009. I'm so excited!

I hope you all have made plans to attend, w/ or w/o a tour, & that we'll see you there. If you haven't made air/hotel reservations yet, you'd be well advised to make them soon. I know my daughter has tried just recently & Channings is all full up!

I'll be spending a little time at the FTDNA stall, helping John Hansen, Friday or Saturday.

See ya in Edinburgh.

Regards aye,

Bob

Blog URL

Perhaps, it's the wrong place but what the heck: the URL for the Clann Mackinlay Blog is, http://clannmackinlay.blogspot.com

Regards aye,

Bob

Inception of Blog

I am reviewing many past issues of the Glasgow & West Scotland Family History Society newsletter ( nice pub - quarterly) for helpful URL's, et al, so that I may better solve the questions that must lie in the "...mists of the past...". I am struggling with the learning curve of a new technique that I believe offers a ton of help in addition to traditional genealogical tools - Y DNA testing. I am the current Administrator of the Mackinlay Surname Project run by Family Tree DNA of Houston, TX, and have upgraded my own DNA test to the 67-marker level, This level should exhibit the greatest sensitivity and, hence, return the earliest common ancestor and the fewest, real matches to others with similar DNA.



I have put a serious amount of time and effort into the study of Scottish genealogy, in general, and the family of Mackinlay, in particular. I have caused a website to exist that represents the knowledge gained, called, Clann Mackinlay Seannachaidh, which may be visited at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mckinlay/



I happen to have been offered a Google Mail Acccount a couple of years ago, but I really have Heather McFarlane to thank for steering me on to Google Blogspot. Heather's blog is at http://knapdalepeople.blogspot.com/ and her website (fantastic !) may be visited at http://www.knapdalepeople.com/



I'll sign off for now, as I'm already scratching for material for next time.



Regards aye,



Bob McKinlay