This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cain, Kain Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XOH.2ACIB/894.1375 Message Board Post: Hi Ron, I've been trying to research my husband's Kain lineage. His grandfather, John H. Kain, was born in Kirkcudbrightshire in 1839. I may have found him in the 1841 Scotland census, but his name was spelled McKeand. LDS records have the name spelled Cain, and some of his siblings went by the name McCain/McKain. Does the Clan Donald recognize the Mc's or just Cain/Kain? I'd like to know if the McCain's/McKain's & McKeand's are of the same family or different lines. Would it have been a personal preference as to how they wanted to spell their name in translation from Gaelic to English, much like many other surnames? Thanks, Conni