having somehow missed the contest, I am hoping to get some reaction by posting some of my NS roots here. Archibald MCDONALD Birth: in ,North Uist,Inverness,Scotland Death: AFT 1871 witness on son Allan's death record Marriage 1 Margaret Children Allan MCDONALD b: ABT 1812 in ,North Uist,Scotland Martha MacDonald b: abt 1817 in ,Scotland Allan MCDONALD Birth: ABT 1812 in ,North Uist,Scotland Death: 16 Mar 1871 in ,Cape Breton,Nova Scotia,Canada Burial: Black Brook,Cape Breton,Nova Scotia,Canada Marriage 1 Sarah MCPHAIL b: ABT 1824 in Harris,Inverness,South Uist,Scotland Children 1. Margaret MCDONALD b: in ,Nova Scotia,Canada 2. Mary MCDONALD b: Jul 1847 in River Dennis,Cape Breton,Nova Scotia,Canada 3. Archie MaCDONALD b: 1849 4. Allan MCDONALD 5. John MCDONALD 6. Donald Archibald MCDONALD b: ABT 1856 in River Dennis,Nova Scotia,Canada 7. Annie MCDONALD b: 15 Jun 1858 in Whycocomagh,Cape Breton,Nova Scotia,Canada 8. James MCDONALD 9. Kate MCDONALD of these 9 children, these are the next generation as known 2.Mary MCDONALD Birth: Jul 1847 in River Dennis,Cape Breton,Nova Scotia,Canada Death: 1 Jul 1909 in Port Morien,Cape Breton,Nova Scotia,Canada Burial: Black Brook,Cape Breton,Nova Scotia,Canada Marriage 1 Alex "Sandy" MCAULEY b: 1841 in Nova Scotia,Canada Children 1. Peter MCAULEY b: 1870 2. Daniel Archy MCAULEY b: 1870 in Nova Scotia,Canada 3. Kate MCAULEY b: 1872 in Nova Scotia,Canada 4. Ronald MCAULEY b: 20 Jul 1874 in Nova Scotia,Canada 5. Donald Hugh MCAULEY b: 1876 6. Allan MCAULEY b: 3 Apr 1876 in Nova Scotia,Canada 7. Donald Ewen MCAULEY b: 1878 in Nova Scotia,Canada 8. Sarah Ann MCAULEY b: 1879 in Nova Scotia,Canada 9. Annie MCAULEY b: Oct 1880 in Nova Scotia,Canada 3.Archie MCDONALD Birth: 1849 Death: 1923 Marriage 1 Anne MATTHEWS b: 1861 Children 1. Alan Archibald MacDONALD 1880 - 1951 2. William Matthews MacDONALD 1881 – 1930 3. Mary Frances MacDONALD ?? - 1914 4. Emma Susan MacDONALD 1885-1954 5. Georgie MacDONALD 1887 - 1953 6. John Nelson MacDONALD 1889 – 1973 7. Thomas MacDONALD 1891 - ?? 6. Donald Archibald MCDONALD Birth: ABT 1856 in River Dennis,Nova Scotia,Canada Death: 19 Aug 1868 in Cow Bay,Cape Breton,Nova Scotia,Canada Burial: Black Brook,Cape Breton,Nova Scotia,Canada died in a rail cart accident at the coal mines 7.Annie MCDONALD Birth: 15 Jun 1858 in Whycocomagh,Cape Breton,Nova Scotia,Canada Death: 30 Aug 1909 in Oakland,Alameda,California Burial: 1 Sep 1909 Oakland,Alameda,California Marriage 1 Charles J. WAGNER b: 1855 in ,Poland Married: 4 Oct 1883 in Boston,Suffolk,Massachusetts Children 1. Allan John WAGNER b: 7 May 1886 in Boston,Suffolk,Massachusetts Marriage 2 Paul S GILLETTE b: Mar 1871 in ,Nebraska Married: 1898 in Omaha,Douglas,Nebraska (cannot find, may have been elsewhere or elsewhen) Martha MacDONALD likely relative through dna testing. I only have her Ahnentafel marriage 1 Neil MacPHERSON b: abt 1816 in ,Prince Edward Island, Canada child Johanna MacPHERSON Birth 15 May 1837 in Dingwall, Victoria, Nova Scotia Death 2 Sep 1912 in Port Morien, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia marriage 1 Angus B. MacAULEY born 15 May 1837 in Cow Bay/Port Morien, Cape Breton Angus could be a relative of Sandy McAuley. both Martha and Allan are of the right time and place to be brother and sister. I am told Martha was of Cow Bay, Nova Scotia. I don't know Johanna's siblings names, and have no Martha's in Allan's family, so perhaps naming patterns were dropped by them. I did test possitive with a descendant of Martha's.