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With the New Year I hope we can get back to our family research. You are
encouraged to send in your questions, comments and any related information
you would like to share.

Best wishes,

Jim and Diane

thanks, Jim. I just bought a webinar from Family Tree about doing research in Ireland. My grandmother on my dad’s side was born with maiden name McGregor and had a grandfather whose tombstone said he was born in Edinburg. My best calculation would have him born there c.1816. He moved to California during the gold rush. The censuses say his occupation was miner. He lived up in the hills in Cherokee. I visited the site of his grave probably 20 years ago and someone was caring for the cemetery even though the town itself was a ghost town. His wife was from Ireland and the two of them ended up on the same boat to New York in the time of he Irish famine. It is a very romantic story about this couple.

My qustion is does anyone know any sources for a webinar for Scottish research. I see lots for Scotch-Irish….but I am not aware of anything for actual Scots! Unfortunately my McGregor family had no boys on these shores so I have no one to do yDNA…..Oh, wait …that is not accurate. It is possible that there could be a male descendant that I do not know about. Robert McGregor and his wife Mary Ann Hare had seven children in California and four of them were male: James (my ancestor), William, Uncle George, and Robert, But my grandmother did not think she had cousins except for a female cousin who was the child of one of the three sisters: Katie and Emma and Annie. But the truth is it is not impossible that one of the males had a son that no one knew about.

I have done my own autosomal dna at all five of the big sites: Ancestry (MarshaMoses), FTDNA (Marsha Moses), MyHeritage (marsha moses), 23 and me, and Living DNA. And I have uploaded to gedmatch: (T648837) I sure would love to find a McGregor match someday! Take a look if you are into dna to see if we are matches.
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