I don't know why this Crawford Co. list is so slow, but the email I sent yesterday has not yet appeared. Inasmuch as it was about a newspaper article which appeared yesterday (Sunday) and is no longer available on line, I am including an edited version in this email so people will know what I was talking about. I would love to hear from anyone who attended this reunion or knows anything more about it or about the "McQuiston Manor" referred to. Marilyn Mills Hesse marilynhesse@comcast.net Windsor, CT, USA website at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mmhesse/ Also Researching: DENNIS - NJ>Bucks Co.PA>Crawford Co.PA HAMILTON - Killybegs,Co.Donegal,Ireland>Liverpool,UK>Crawford Co.PA McQUISTON -Co.Antrim,Ireland>South Carolina>Crawford Co.& Mercer Co.,PA MILLS - Co.Tyrone,Ireland>Mercer Co.PA>Crawford Co.PA MOODY - Co.Derry and Co.Antrim,Ireland>Beaver Falls,PA>Crawford Co.PA MOORE/MOON-Co.Tyrone,Ireland>Mercer Co.PA WILLIAMS - Connecticut>New Jersey>Crawford Co.PA _______________________________________________________ McQuiston family reunites in Crawford County By Mary Spicer For Jim McQuiston, it's all about getting back to where you belong. "I personally think that it's part of a spiritual path," the historian of Clan Uisdean USA Inc. said of the journey that brought more than 100 members of the family whose surname has evolved over the course of more than 10 generations to include McQuiston, McCuiston, McCuistion, McQuesten, McQuestion and McQuistion to Crawford County this weekend. "We know the very first McQuiston," the North East resident explained during a Saturday interview as members of his extremely extended family toured the McQuiston Manor Farm in South Shenango Township. "His brother is the one we all descend from, and we pretty much have the lineage all the way down. It's pretty amazing." For years, local family members have celebrated the 4th of July with a reunion in Meadville. However, things changed dramatically on July 4, 2000. Meeting in Alexandria, Va., six members of the family formally founded Clan Uisdean USA Inc. Independence Day was selected as the organization's founding day in honor of the role the family played in the American Revolution and in recognition of the similarity between the words and ideas of the Declaration of Independence and the Declaration of Arbroath, which was signed in 1320 by their ancestor, Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland. In 2001, the expanding group met in Shelbyville, Tenn., a location selected because of its ties to Andrew Jackson, whose great-grandmother was a McQuistion. The 2002 meeting was in Greensboro, N.C., and in 2003, they gathered near Franklin, Texas. At each location, family members have gathered to investigate family history and strengthen family ties. This year, it's Crawford County's turn.................................................. "It's all about family and connections - and people who don't even know each other and they walk up and shake hands and they're best buddies," said Jim McQuiston. "I have given information to people, and they write back and they say, 'I cried for four hours from what you gave me.' It's just the sense of getting back to where you belong." Genetically, Tom and Charlotte Herrmann and their son, Joe, aren't McQuistons, but the nine-year labor of love that has transformed the massive red-brick Victorian at the intersection of Hartstown/Westford and Jamestown/Linesville roads in South Shenango Township into a veritable McQuiston museum seemed to pretty much make them part of the family. Comments like "We're glad they got the place" were heard as family members completed a guided tour of the structure that houses an impressive quantity of beautifully-preserved family mementos. The house was completed in 1880. Members of the group that toured the house came from states scattered across the country, including Alabama, California, Kentucky, Michigan, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia, as well as a sizable contingent from western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio...........................................................