This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MACKENZIE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2N0.2ACIB/1401 Message Board Post: NEW MACKENZIE WEBSITE: FROM SCOTLAND TO NOVA SCOTIA AND BEYOND www.mackenziefamilytree.com. This MACKENZIE Website would not have been completed without extensive assistance from many sources. They know who they are and they know my sincere thanks and heartfelt appreciation. This project has been ten years in the making. During this time I have contacted many near and distant family members who were more than willing to share and exchange information by e-mail, snail-mail or telephone. Some even invited me into their homes for an extended stay involving research, visiting disappearing homesteads, lurking about in time-worn cemeteries. Everyone extended the ancient art of hospitality. I have truly been touched and blest by their graciousness. Genealogy is always for the benefit of future generations. Now is the time to share the results of this project. Family history is a dynamic enterprise ... it is always a work in progress ... a living story ... and all good stories deserve to be told and re-told. It is the telling and re-telling of that story that makes the ancestors "alive and accessible" ... and future generations "marvel and wonder". The story makes us all feel connected to one another and to our shared heritage. You will find many interesting stories along with the usual names, dates, and places. And you may even uncover some glaring mistakes, inaccuracies, oversights, and misprints. A project of this size will always contain errors. I hope that after you review the sections of this project that pertain to your family or that interest you the most, you will take the time to notify me of any errors, so that I can immediately correct them. You can do this by simply signing my Guestbook with your comments and email address or by emailing me personally. The information in this Website is gleaned from various public and private sources. The public sources are readily available to anyone who knows how to perform the research using public archives. The private sources are not readily available to anyone who knows how to perform the research. This repository of information consists of privileged information now willingly disclosed by its possessor. There is nothing on this Website which can be construed to embarrass, harm or disparage the living or the dead. I have one request: If you decided to use the information contained in this Website in any public written or digital format, please cite this Website as the source: www.mackenziefamilytree.com Genealogy is a fallible undertaking ... this is the way I tell my family's story. Enjoy. Bill Dorgan