Dear Listers, Let’s begin the Roll Call of family stories in this order, giving the larger clans a headstart since most researchers have at least one of these first 5 surnames in their ancestry: July 15 –- MacLean starts. July 16 -- MacDonald, MacKinnon start. July 17 -- Cameron, all variations of MacFadden & MacPhaiden start. July 18 –- all other clans/surnames start. The instructions are as follows: 1. Email "To": send your email to SCT-ARL-TIREE-L@rootsweb.com 2. Email "From": Remember that the email address which you send from will be displayed on the Internet for many years! (If you want to get a new address for this purpose, Yahoo is offering free ones right now with 100mb of storage space.) 3. Email "Subject": In your subject mention the surname and the location of the family you are featuring. E.g. the McLean sample which will follow has the Subject as "Red Hector McLean of Little Souris, Manitoba, Canada" 4. Email length: Up to one page--which means that if you printed it out, it would fit on one sheet of regular Canadian paper (8.5 by 11 inches). That size allows for the possibility that people can easily print out these histories, one per page, and keep them in a binder. 5. Format required: "Plain Text" only, no attachments. (or Rootsweb will reject your email) You can include links, but if you want them to be active, you must start them as http://www.... 6. Where to View: the Roll Call will become part of the Archives of the Rootsweb Tiree Mailing List: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/SCT-ARL-TIREE/ 7. Contact Info for Researcher: Please add your name and general location. Repeating your email address at the end is also a good idea. You can submit as many histories as you like. Remember that each side of a family has a history of its own, e.g. for my great-grandparents, Malcolm MacDougall and Isabella MacLean, I could submit a family history from the MacDougall side of the family and another from the McLean side, with different titles of course. Also, you may want to submit a history for a family which was not of Tiree or Coll origin but married into those families and then added a distinctive surname to their Tiree descendants. E.g. in my family, the Carletons are of Irish origin, but married a number of Tiree descendants around Tiverton, Ontario. Therefore, Tiree descendants bearing the Carleton surname from that location are almost certainly related via this Irish family. If you don't have time to do justice to a family story, then just submit a few lines so that your family at least appears in the Roll Call, if only briefly. You can submit a longer story later. Thanks to Jeanette Robertson of Winnipeg who has submitted her material to start us off (see McLean message following). Although this Roll Call is starting before the Gathering 2004, it will also continue afterwards in order to accommodate all the new discoveries that will be made there. Let’s hear from everyone on the Tiree List over the next few weeks! Louise MacDougall Vancouver Island, BC Canada