Karen- We know of the McMillan family. Many descendants, their shirtsleeves, kith and kin still reside in the Paso Robles/Shandon and San Luis Obispo areas today. They claim Scot ancestry records back to almost 1200, from the Isle of Arran in the Firth of Clyde. In about 1829 Donald and Barbara Shaw MacMillan migrated to New Brunswick. Then beginning in 1872 the second migration of some of the clan began to Shandon, San Luis Obispo County, California. Next many of those went from Shandon to San Luis Obispo City, San Francisco Bay area or Santa Cruz area. The Alexander McMillan family remained, have known several of those children and grandchildren. Son Don McMillan was a good friend of my dad's, became an avid historian, columnist in the local Press newspaper, and was affectionately termed "The Sage of Shandon." In addition to Don and Alta Kester McMillan and their daughters, Don's brothers Ian and Eben and families, remain in Shandon. The El Paso de Robles Historical Society (Carnegie Library, 1100 Spring Street, Paso Robles, CA 93446) has records, books and materials, as well as a few items at the El Paso de Robles Area Pioneer Museum Association (P.O.Box 461, Paso Robles CA 93447). Richard At 02:00 AM 7/8/2001 -0600, you wrote: Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 10:01:36 EDT From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [CASANLUI] McMillan I am a new subscriber, tracking down some shirt tail lines that moved from New Brunswick Canada (prior to that Scotland) to the Shandon area about 1886. Just found some of them yesterday in 1900 & 1910 on the census. Anybody researching McMillan's? I have quite a bit of earlier information I can share. Are there marriage records for this area on line anywhere for early 1900s? Is there a local genealogy/historical society that perhaps has books of marriages or cemetery readings for sale? (If so, I might be able to purchase copies & donate them to our local library--so we can all find more ancestors.) Karen