Hello everyone. I don't know if anyone here might have more information on the family that I'm researching, but I like to post my interests every now and then, just to see if anyone has learned anything new. Anyway, here we go. My main area of research (actually mine and my cousin Judi's) is the MCNAIRN family from the parrish of Penninghame, Wigtownshire, Scotland. William McNairn (1704-1769) was the first Laird of The Knowe, a farmstead near Newton Stewart. One of his sons, John McNairn (1745-1814) was my 4xgreat Grandfather. John left Scotland for the United States in 1773, then moved to Canada in 1778. He was a United Empire Loyalist. His family stayed in Canada for awhile....my grandfather was born there. When my grandfather, Oral Charles McNairn married my grandmother, Beulah Kathleen Richardson, they moved to New Jersey where my mother was born. They moved to Ohio, and then I was born in Indiana. There are other McNairns from all over that my cousin (who is my 6th cousin) Judi and I are trying to make connections with--Scotland, England, all over Canada, The US, Australia, and Jamaica. Both of us believe that if we can document back far enough, we will find that we all have common ancestors, probably from the Wigtown area. Judi has a great website about the McNairns that we have researched and documented. If you have time, please take a look at it. If you think you might have further information that might be useful to us, please let me or Judi know....we would be eternally in your debt! Judi's website is: http://www.jamcnairn.com/mcnairn/index.htm We hope to hear from you! Thanks for taking the time to read this! Cheryl Grice, born Zetta McNairn and Judi McNairn