I'm working on some surname identifications for a paper I'm writing with Bill Howard. I find I really can't say much about many of these surnames but I know people have been working on them on this list. Can anyone put a little more flesh on these bare bones? Do the Cowans belong in the Grier-Millikin group? Greer/Grierson McAdams McCord Millikin.Milligan Nothing can be said with authority about any of these surnames except they are all Scottish. DNA studies on the Greer/Grierson site suggest these families are related and originated in the Nith valley of lowland Scotland. Some early mention of the families goes back to the 1200s in Galloway. Ewing/Ewin Ewings in the project mostly descend from ancestors who came from Scotland to Donegal and Ulster during the Plantation years but they do have matches from Scotland as well. The surname is thought to have originated in the vicinity of Loch Lomond in lowland Scotland. The Ewings in Donegal are documented by listings in the 1630 Muster Rolls, the 1654 Civil Survey, the 1665 Hearth Money Rolls and Presbyterian church registers for Burt congregation.

John, I am in the process of putting together a chart of my MacAdams right now and hope to finish it before going on vacation in mid-August. I don't know if that will be of any help in adding flesh to the bones though. I only have their history from 1790 on, with smatterings from earlier times in the Highlands, which may or may not be true, plus the aforementioned deep ancestry connections to the Lowland McAdams and the others. Allene