First, a 'Hello' to my Islay mailing list friends - I have been off the list for a couple of years (partly because the list was so active I could not keep up with the volume!) but am now glad to be back. Recently I reviewed all of the wonderful data that has been extracted on the Islay OPRs, censuses, civil registrations, etc. and posted on Steve Gillespie and Ted Larsen's sites. I realized that, starting with my own OPR extracts on the McGillivrays, I could begin to construct family trees of the McGillivray families on Islay. I have now posted the results in a new WorldConnect project called 'McGillivrays of Islay' at: http://wc.rootsweb.com/~islaymcgillivray/ There is still work to do, but most of the information is uploaded. There are over 100 families and 500 individuals (though some of the individuals are duplicates, e.g. both a parent and a child but I don't have the information to link them). I still have some strays in the records, but for example I have postively identified 70% of the McGillivrays in the 1841 census (with a few more tentatively matched). Of course, the challenge is to link families across generations. I know from experience that often the clue is overseas, not in the Islay records (e.g. a death registration that gives both the spouse and the parents). Please, anyone with a McGillivray in their Islay trees, check out the database and let me know if you have any more information to add about your family. Russ McGillivray Caledon, Ontario

Hi Russ, Thank you for putting more Islay resources online. Your McGilvray connections to McFadyen and McArthur are on my site. Regards Charles