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
