Hi Lynn, Many thanks for this information! And thank you also to Tricia for the link to the archived web version of this information. All the best, Chris

Hi Iain, Many thanks for sending this to me! I greatly appreciate it. I will be reviewing this in detail, and expanding to include my Jura ancestors that migrated to Islay in the 1840s. Thank you agai

Hello everyone, I am hunting down a McDougall/Currie link, and I am wondering if any of you might have these people in your respective trees, plus further information. Euphemia (Effie) Currie married

Hi everyone, I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who has been sharing this McDougall and Sinclair information for Islay. I seem to share many of these same connections, though I have never real

Hi everyone, I am wondering if anyone knows of a way that I could purchase a copy of the book called "The People of the Parish of Jura," written by Scott Buie. It used to be available in some location

Hi Russ, The username is helloplanet2000. You took the Big Y test as well? I also took a Big Y test and have found that most of my close matches are actually MacLeans (various spellings). I do have au

Hi Russ, I am sorry, but I don't have anything for you just yet in regards to the McLeans and McGilvrays. I did note in the 1901 census of Canada it lists Hector and James as living with their family,

Hi Jeanette, Like Dorothy, I have Gillespie and Bell in my tree. I don't have an Ann McGillivray, but I do have a Mary McGillivray, born approx. 1799, who married a John Allan McLean, born approx. 180

Many thanks to Marion and Charles for their responses! This will lead me further in my research, as some of the surnames listed are ones that I have identified DNA matches with, but had had difficulty

Hello everyone, I wanted to say thank you to the people who reached out to me in regards to my first message, as it helped to virtually meet a distant cousin, and helped to solidify a lead that my fou

Hi everybody! My name is Chris MacDougall, and I have a wide range of Islay connections that I have been attempting to put together, with my focal point being Malcolm McDougall (my fourth great-grandf