This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SeC.2ACI/441.3.1 Message Board Post: Kelli, I have not been able to connect my family to any Irish Gilkison family. Mine are from Ayrshire/Buteshire and I have been able to trace them back to the late 1600's in these areas. I do have a large database of Gilkisons (32 spellings) of Argyll/Ayrshire/Buteshire and Lanarkshire families, related and unrelated, some from the late 1500's Ann