Posted on: Shire of Dunbarton, Scotland Queries Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/Scotland/Dunbarton/677 Surname: McKinlay, M'Kinlay, Mackinlay ------------------------- Dear June, How positively exciting that you are related to Dot! She was so kind to share her Rowatt-McKinlay family history with me to post on the Clann McKinlay Web Page. The next most exciting thing is that a Bill Mackinlay from NSW has just provided me with four decades of Mackinlay Gathering documents, including genealogical documentation, of all of the Australian Mackinlays who descended from a George Mackinlay and Maragaret Miller, married in Canongate, Edinburgh, in 1804. They sailed for Sydney, NSW in 1838. Much work to do with all this! BTW, I share your frustration with the McKinlay research - it seems like lots of dead-ends. It is the reason that I feel so strongly that networking and posting as many McKinlay/Mackinlay heritages as possible on the Clann McKinlay Web Page will provide potential connections that can be followed up by interested inquirers. I've searched the net directories for Jason without knowing exactly where he might be. I have written to a Jason D. Keller in another town in Maryland (our Jason originally was living in Cockeysville, MD) and the news is mixed: no letter returned by the Post Office, but no response as yet either. Hopefully, I will hear something soon and will let you and Dot know. Funny thing is, I know and have recently spoken to one of the later descendants in Jason's tree - a Jack Fugate, optometrist here in Columbus. He has never heard of Jason, however. Thanks again for keeping in touch - if I can ever be of help to you , please let me know. Mr. Pearson of the Clan Colquhoun Society UK is working on the East Kilpatrick parish inscriptions, but there is a big AGM this time of year, so his inscriptions projects have been slowed by that. Best regards, Bob Link: Clann McKinlay Seannachaidh URL: <http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mckinlay>