I'm new to the Scotch-Irish digest. My maiden name is McKee, which I understand to be SI. My full name is Jennifer Louise McKee Roussin. My father is Joseph Robert McKee. He was a petroleum engineer. His sister is Mary Judith McKee Shaw, and his brother (now deceased) was Mark Bennett McKee. Joseph McKee's father was Ned Hamilton McKee, born in Roachport Missouri in 1905, died in 1951. Ned was a farmer, then sold insurance, and he worked on building the Bagnell Dam in southwest Missouri. He also worked for the Army Contruction Brigade building roads, bridges, and dams. He lived in St. Charles, Louisiana for a time, as well as Yakima, Washington, and Minneapolis, Minnesota. He later worked on building roads and dams in Venezuela. Ned McKee's parents were Guy and Daisy Pearson McKee. Ned's brothers were Pearson and Wallace. My grandfather Ned was first married to Margaret White. They had 2 children - Daisy Ann and Jerry McKee. He then divorced his first wife and married Marian Bennett Swartley, my dad's mother. Ned and his McKee line were from Roachport Missouri, and Fayette Missouri. My father Joseph, his sister Mary Judith, and their descendants now live mostly in St. Louis, Misosuri. My aunt on my father's side has said that we are from the McKee's in Kentucky, and she believes they were farmers and owned slaves, but I'm not sure what her source for that information was. If anyone knows of any of these McKee's, I would appreciate any information. I would also like to know about the Kentucky McKee's - was there one line of Kentucky McKee's, what did they do, when did they arrive from Ulster, ect. Thank you very much. Jennifer McKee Roussin