This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cann, McCann Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QOz.2ACEB/718 Message Board Post: I met Jane this weekend at a genealogy reunion for another surname, and discovered then that she managed this list and board. I subscribed to the list yesterday, and here is my "connection," questionable though it may be, with the McCann surname. My grandfather used to tell me stories about our family "way back when," but like most kids, I viewed his stories pretty much as an old man talking about things I had no interest in. OH. . . . , how I wish I had paid more attention to him, because now that I am infected with the genealogy bug, I am finding out that so much of what he said is coming to be true. Unfortunately, I cannot talk with him any more, and I sure miss that. One of those things he had told me is that our family surname at one time was McCann, and that we were from Scotland, but thus far, that is the one thing that I cannot confirm. I can take my surname (Cann) back to Sir Thomas Cann, b. ca. 1565, and a former Lord Mayor or Briston, England. Note that is not Scotland. Most of his descendants for whom I have information migrated either to Nova Scotia or the New England area, and have since scattered across Canada and the United States, but I have yet to find any connection to the McCann surname, and. . . . . . . that fact makes this off topic for this list/board <g>. If anyone out there has any information that will help to either confirm my Cann/McCann connection or confirm it does not exist, I would welcome hearing from you. The best I have been able to do on my own is to find a couple of ancestors who went to Scotland, but no confirmed migration there and none named McCann. Jane and I had a very nice (to me, at least) conversation this weekend in Uniontown about this, as I thought we might be related, but I am afraid "my mystery" continues.