Hi folks, This email bounced to me as it is from a non-subscriber. If anyone can make a connection to these McLeans, please contact Rob & Diane McLean at "mailto:mclean@citlink.net". I've become pretty good at reading those deeds myself, it sure takes practice! Be sure to make it to the Pictou Deeds Office to get the deeds and wills! The Pictou County Genealogical & Heritage Society, in Pictou, the Pictou County Roots Society beside the New Glasgow library, and the New Glasgow Library itself are three great places to get information. Maybe I'll see you there! Good luck, Rick MacNeil p.s. I've added your name to the Surname Registry. mclean wrote: >Finally, after 6 years of online research, we will be traveling from Arizona to Pictou County arriving on July 1st. Does anyone have any information or leads to where we can go to complete our research? >I am searching - McLean from Fraser Mountain. >One of the hardest things we have come across is how to decipher the writing in the deeds and wills from the early 1800's. Is there someone in the Pictou County area who is an "expert" at reading these? We also would like to get in touch with the James Church - does anyone have their email address? >Is there somewhere we can go that might have photographs of old ships (ours was The Sarah, 1801), or drawings or pictures from the early 1800's - maybe a picture of Edward Mortimer? >Also, last but not least, are there any descendants around of James H.MacLean who married Margaret Ross? Married in 1862, their children were: >Margaret A. - lived with her parents in 1912 >Catherine >Christena (married a Smith) >Ella (married Murray) >Annie (married Whitcolmb) >Lena >James W. - lived in Trenton in 1912 >Mary J. (married Elson King, their children were James, Duncan, Catherine, >Herbert). Lived at Sutherlands River in 1912. > >We will be there for a week, and would love to meet any distant cousins! > >Sincerely, >Rob and Dianne McLean > >PS - what's fun to do with the kids? > >