Sources and Acknowledgements | leemaclellanfamily

Acknowledgements

It would not have been possible for me to develop and write the content for this web site alone. I stand on the shoulders of many people, most notably my fourth cousin Katherine Mclellan. She did the lion's share of the research identifying the MacLellan chain. Without the fruit of her research I never would have been able to tell this story.

I also stand on the shoulders of others. Much of my material came from personal documents and stories from my mother Janet MacLellan Clark and my aunt Sally MacLellan Councill, both of whom took trips to Scotland. They had kept the family records, and left them in my care. Other members of the family contributed their time and energy to help me along.

I'd like to give a special shout-out to my first cousin John Foster. He had a wealth of pictures and information about not only his immediate family but also other members.

Sources - Internet

Ancestry.com is the mother lode of genealogical data, and I used it more than the other websites.

Family Search and My Heritage are sites that have been merged, and belong to the Church of Latter Day Saints (LDS), the Mormons

Find My Past was also helpful.

Scotland's People is the official source of online Scottish records. I was amazed and a little disappointed to find that when I entered the National Registrar of Scotland building in Edinburgh, that everyone did research on-line, using the same data base as Scotland's People.

Sources - Books

This section is incomplete.

I had two reliable sources on Scotland. John Addison is a native Scot who reviewed the draft site and offered a valuable insight on how the Scots named their neighbors to the south. Kathy Kessinger, the current President of the international Clan MacLellan organization, also generously provided her comments.