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Welcome to
Kith and Kin Family Tree
Welcome to the Kith and Kin Family Tree web site,
dedicated to the Kith & Kin of Neil McKinnon and
Hannah McDonald. Here you'll find information on
many related families who lived in or near the
Brae, Lot 9, Prince Edward Island, and Canada
during the 1800s. Their descendants, our
Kith & Kin, live in many parts of Canada and the
US. This site is intended to provide information
for anyone who may be even remotely related. If
you have any connection to the folks listed on
the family surname page, or if you have any
questions about them, please contact either Rick
Atkinson at
KithKin@cox.net or Larry MacDonald
at
larry-macdonald@shaw.ca.
We always seem to want to know “Is there anyone famous
(or infamous) that we are related to?" And
"Where did we come from?” Everyone's family tree
tells a great story and the McKinnon one is
particularly fascinating. As you go through the
family trees, you will find that not only are
many of us cousins to one another, in our
collective past, we are in several instances,
also "cousins unto ourselves.” Our ancestors
were certainly prolific, having huge families
and inter and intra-marriage within and between
families in Scotland, Canada, and “The Colonies”
was not unusual... In the early pioneer days the
pool of persons available for marriage was much
more restricted. Individuals did not live long
lives, economics and survival dictated that
widows and widowers did not remain unmarried for
long thus there are many combined families.
Travel was difficult, and thus people did not
know either their ancestors or direct relatives
and there just weren't that many people!
Compound this with warfare, ancient and current
family feuds compounded with clan rivalries,
religious discrimination and the restrictions of
the day and the result is our extended Kith & Kin!
Our collective goal in the development of our Kith and
Kin Family Tree Web Site is to gather and
publish both accurate verifiable information
about our heritage and extended Kith & Kin.
Although we may never actually personally meet
one another, this web site is an attempt for us
to keep in contact across the miles. For
example, Larry the genealogist and Rick the
webmaster are distant cousins, sharing their
respective areas of responsibilities. We have
never actually met each other, for that matter
never even chatted on the phone - this web site
was created entirely via the magic of the
internet.
In this effort, we are proud to include links on this
web site to Larry MacDonald’s web site
containing the Key McKinnon Family Tree, a
carefully researched, documented and we believe
highly accurate McKinnon genealogy tracing facts
starting with Neil McKinnon who, as a young boy,
emigrated from the Isle of Barra Scotland,
though the generations that followed in Prince
Edward Island, The Brae and into modern times.
Contact Larry at
larry-macdonald@shaw.ca after you
develop your individual family information for
verification of data. Once verified, Larry will
update his information and this would be linked
to the Kith and Kin Family Tree web site on the
appropriate and/or new family surname page.
Please note: The dates of living individuals are
not be published on the internet but will be
kept private in the database as will email and
snail mail addresses. Since this would contain
your information, you would be responsible for
maintaining, updating, and supplying the
information to Larry on a timely basis. Using
this process, several "lost or missing"
relatives have been found and we hope to find
many more. If you have suggestions on ways to
improve our communication, want to add something
of interest such as text, great family legends
and stories, biographies, histories, old
documents, family pictures, additional links,
(or horrors, find an error) please don't
hesitate to contact either of us. Any and all
comments are welcome.
We only ask
that you carefully research and verify the
accuracy of your information (for example we
don't want a picture of Aunt Emma actually being
Uncle Bob or add names to the wrong family!) Our
collective goal is to not perpetuate incorrect
information. Please give credit and reference
your sources wherever possible and you may ask
that your email address be published IF you wish
viewers to contact you for additional
information. You will notice that Old English,
Canadian and US spellings are used throughout
the pages depending on their source. There are
also several historical documents, wills etc.
that were written phonically in text that was
the custom of the day that are left as they were
written for historical accuracy.
We consider the web site an never ending journey, a
work in progress. As a start we have included
links to many family surname pages with basic
information on some of the clans, tartans,
surname histories, and important historical
events with informative links etc.
At this time Larry is our current genealogist
and researcher and Rick is both the current
"Kith and Kin Family Tree" webmaster and
publisher of the Kith & Kin Newsletter. Both
Rick and Larry are temporary custodians. In
order to keep the website and newsletter
informative, innovative, and exciting, new
"publishers,” "webmasters" and
"genealogist/researchers" will be solicited
about every two years. Volunteers are more than
welcome.
When contacting us, please identify yourself and
the subject in the subject area of the e-mail so
we don't inadvertently delete them as spam. We
especially want to thank Rick's daughter, Laura
Atkinson for her expert assistance in the actual
design and development of the Kith and Kin
Family Tree web site.
With Best Wishes,
Rick and Laura Atkinson, and Larry MacDonald
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