Dear Family Researcher; "The following is posted, for information purposes only, with permission of the CCC list administrator. Any responses should be made privately to myself at [email protected] . **************************** For those that may be interested in MacLennan family research. The MacLennan Clan recently extended its Web site to reach Clan connections worldwide. The new site is the result of co-operation between Clan associations in Scotland, USA, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. You will find it at: www.clan.maclennan.com <http://www.clan.maclennan.com> The site includes a "Beginner's Guide to family research" with resource links to over 6,000 research sites. Clan MacLennan WorldWide would like to provide a facility by which your branch of our Clan could be matched up with other researcher's family trees. GenCircles.com has been selected as a central repository and matching service for our Clan for this purpose. GenCircles is a non-profit site that has set up a database allowing family researchers to match their family history information with all others who have uploaded their own GEDCOM files to the GenCircles Global Tree. The "SmartMatching", as it is called, will match any individuals on your file with others who are in/on the Global Tree database. The great thing about this program is that it is also interactive, while protecting privacy. This means that if you are matched you can contact your match to further share your information if so desired. There is no cost for using GenCircles. To find out more about the MacLennan database please visit our page: www.clan.maclennan.com/gen/database.htm <http://www.clan.maclennan.com/gen/database.htm> and www.gencircles.com/users/maclennan <http://www.gencircles.com/users/maclennan> We invite you to take advantage of this wonderful facility by loading your GEDCOM file to GenCircles. Please pass this message on to anyone else whom you know is interested in MacLennan family research? Yours in Kinship, David MacLennan Clan MacLennan WorldWide Database Coordinator