Thinking back, it seems like I hardly ever hear anyone on this forum mention ship passenger lists as documentation for ancestors dates and ties to Scotland/Ireland. The question arises when there's confusion over initial immigration to PA, VA, or MA, etc. Granted, once ashore you can move in any direction. But from say 1685 to 1746, there may not have been that many Kincaids of any spelling migrating to America and Canada. We're trying to separate out the Kincaids who may have immigrated first to VA and then some of them moving on to PA or the Carolinas (before KY and OH opened up on the other side). So, if a group of Kincaids immigrated first to northern Virginia, where did their boat land? What's the port of entry in those days from ships coming from Scotland or Ireland to VA? And then, of course, what do the passenger records from the ships show. I once stumbled into a book of passenger ship records in the library in Albany, NY. I thought I could easily skim to Kincaids and get a lead on my own. I was quite surpised to see so many Kincaids in different years and so many with the same first names. But this might not have been before say 1746. I use 1746 for the latest date because it would presumably cover the so-called four brothers who went to VA. Has anyone found passenger records for them? Larry Kincaid (Group C-2).

Sort of a late reply but actually I did make a big deal of this some time back, especially in the case of Group C. My point was that we seemed to keep looking stateside for connections between us and we need to be looking at the possibility that our lines came over already as branches. This seems obvious when put this way, but when you observe our conversations and efforts I don't see us acknolwledging this as obvious. When you've had a brick wall somewhere in the 1750-1770 range for a long time I think it's time to look at immigration. The exception to this lies in how confident we are that all local resources have been tapped. It sounds like PA and VA have been milked for all it's worth. Perhaps, it would help if we had some kind of survey as to what original sources have been thoroughly scanned, and what sources we think need to be delved into deeper. Bruce Teague ---- Larry Kincaid <larryk34@gmail.com> wrote: > Thinking back, it seems like I hardly ever hear anyone on this forum mention > ship passenger lists as documentation for ancestors dates and ties to > Scotland/Ireland. The question arises when there's confusion over initial > immigration to PA, VA, or MA, etc. Granted, once ashore you can move in any > direction. But from say 1685 to 1746, there may not have been that many > Kincaids of any spelling migrating to America and Canada. We're trying to > separate out the Kincaids who may have immigrated first to VA and then some > of them moving on to PA or the Carolinas (before KY and OH opened up on the > other side). > > So, if a group of Kincaids immigrated first to northern Virginia, where did > their boat land? What's the port of entry in those days from ships coming > from Scotland or Ireland to VA? And then, of course, what do the passenger > records from the ships show. > > I once stumbled into a book of passenger ship records in the library in > Albany, NY. I thought I could easily skim to Kincaids and get a lead on my > own. I was quite surpised to see so many Kincaids in different years and so > many with the same first names. But this might not have been before say > 1746. I use 1746 for the latest date because it would presumably cover the > so-called four brothers who went to VA. Has anyone found passenger records > for them? Larry Kincaid (Group C-2). > To see the Kincaid of all spellings DNA chart in Excel: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~adgedge/Research/April%202004/Kincaid%20%20DNA.xls > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to KINCAID-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message