Many, many thanks to Madeleine, Bill and Daphne for taking the time to respond to my request for additional information. I have been a subscriber to this list for a number of months now, and I'm continuously impressed with all of the members' efforts to help each other. You are a wonderful group! Daphne has asked why/how the ownership of the island by the two Clans would obscure my research. I can only answer that I don't know that it would, but I'm looking for any and all clues. Regarding research on the Glass family, I'm faced with the same problem we genealogist have seen time and again - family oral tradition says one thing, but the evidence seems to be pointing in a different direction. Please bear with me a minute while I explain the issues; maybe some of you have run up against the same thing and can provide some advice. What I've been told: 1. The family is a Sept of Stuart of Bute (some Clan websites include the Glass family as a Sept; others don't) 2. The first Glass in the US arrived shortly after the American Revolution. What I've found: 1. This "first" Glass, Alexander, was born in 1752 and appears in the 1790 South Carolina census. By 1800 he was living in North Carolina and remained there until his death. 2. His first child was born in 1780 in South Carolina. Since the Battle of Yorktown, the decisive battle of the American Revolution, wasn't fought until 1781, this would suggest Alexander was here prior to the end of the Revolution. 3. In researching the Glass family neighbors and the families they married into, I've found most fought in the Revolution and migrated from Pennsylvania to North Carolina. Further, they were Scots-Irish. 4. Many Scots-Irish settled in North Carolina. So, did my Glass ancestor come here directly from Scotland, or did he come here from Northern Ireland? And if he came from Northern Ireland, where in Northern Ireland? And how long had the family been in Northern Ireland? If they were one of the first waves of Scots to move there, they could have been in Northern Ireland 100 years before coming to North America! Do I chase a Bute connection right through the time the first Glass supposedly arrived here? Or do I look at the circumstantial evidence of where his neighbors came from and start looking in Northern Ireland (where?) and backtrack from there? If any of you Bute researchers have ancestors who went to Northern Ireland, I would love to know the specifics. When did they leave? Where did they settle? How did you go about finding them? I'm not too proud to say I'm really struggling here! Madeleine - Yes, please! I would love to have the details of the Glass MIs at Rothesay and Kingarth! Daphne - I have searched the Internet in the past for a Clan genealogist, but have come up empty-handed. If you can point me towards a person or website, I would be very grateful. Once more, a million thanks to all of you for your time, enthusiasm, and willingness to help - Candy Cox Charlotte, North Carolina