In a message dated 10/09/00 2:53:12 AM Central Daylight Time, condor@ansonic.com.au writes: << eldest son of the eldest son etc. This is the person to whom I was referring. The official seat of the McDonalds in Glengarry was I believe at Invergarry and this was the Colonel's home until his death. When his eldest son (whoever he was) sold off the family lands and migrated to Australia, he would have bought the formal line of descent with him. I am not laying any claim to the line, rather I am interested in knowing why my family came to Australia rather than going with the mob to Canada. Current thoughts are that they may have followed in the footsteps of the Glengarry to >> Glengarry Ontario Canada has a small museum and heritage center that may be able to help. A lot of the MacDonald founders children still farm the area. It may be in Prescot Russell County now I am not sure, but I believe the history center is in MaxVille a very small village where they have the Highland Games every first weekend of August. It is a massive games too and a great one. The story goes that a regiment from Gelngarry (Scotland), was marching from Montreal to Toronto and when they got to Glengarry On. they had to stop for 3 days as the troops had so many relatives there. Dave