In a message dated 6/21/2006 3:08:42 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, aep@madnet.net writes: This is very interesting. Are the MC LAUGHLINS of Leeds, Jefferson, AL part of these MC LAUGHLINS? Audrey Hi Audrey-- I have no knowledge of the Alabama McLAUGHLINs. But one of my children married into the SC McLAUGHLIN family. My understanding is that they originally came from Scotland to NC... and spread out from there. There is a large concentration of them in current Florence County... seven generations in one cemetery. URQ