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Larry Thompson Marv MacEntire Sr. Jill Muir Dean Gary Markland

From: lthompson@bellsouth.net (Larry Thompson)

Subj: HISTORY OF KINTYRE by Peter McIntosh

Hi,

I am interested in the book mentioned on your website entitled "History of Kintyre" by Peter McIntosh. Do you know of a copy that might be for sale?

Thanks,

Larry Thompson

I replied:

Hi Larry,

Thanks for your email. It's always a pleasure to hear from a new reader. As to your query - I'm afraid that I don't know where there is a copy for sale but, if you go to www.KintyreMag.co.uk and go to the Advertisements page, you'll find an e-address for a bookseller who might be able to help. Let me know how you get on.

Regards,

Ian

( That e-address was www.theoldbookshelf.com)

From: Marv McEntire Sr. mcentire@ifox.com

Subject: McEntire

Dear Ian,

Just a question, is the spelling of my name: McEntire an abberation of McIntyre, or (as I have heard), an English or Irish spelling.

Warm Regards,

Marvin Graham McEntire

2110 South Sherman Rd.

St. George, Utah 84790

USA

I replied:

Hello Marvin,
Thanks for your e-mail. It's always good to hear from a new reader. Unfortunately, I'm not expert enough to give you an answer to your question. I certainly don't think that your good name is an aberration of anything!!
I would guess that it's just a different spelling of McIntyre which name comes from 'Argyleshire, around the 15th Century'. Kintyre, of course, was settled from Ireland but Kintyre itself has been spelled many different ways.
I'll post your query on the next Wee Drams page, and you might get a better answer than that.
Until then, all the best to you and yours,
Ian

Back from Marvin:

Ian,

Thanks for responding. Of course I have also been wondering whether McIntyre might have been an adaptation from Kintyre.

I do appreciate your writing and looking forward to more. I am 60 years of age and have a Bachelor degree in English Language and Literature. After reading about the many Scottish families in your magazine, I'm enticed to read more.

Warm Regards,

Marvin McEntire

Back from me:

Hello again Marvin,

No reply needed to this e-mail, but I just wanted to say thank you for saying such nice things about my efforts with the online Magazine. It's always nice to be appreciated.

Best regards,

Ian

From: "Jill Muir" <jill@muir.clara.co.uk

Subject: Wee Drams

Hi Ian,
Seems a long time since we last 'spoke' nice to see the website looks even better.
Great site and wonderful photograph.
Cheers Jill and Barry

I emailed back:

Hi Jill,

Happy New Year. Great to 'hear' from you again. I hope that this email finds you and Barry well, as it leaves Helen and me 'in the pink'.

As ever - thanks for saying nice things about the site. Given my job and all, I don't have a lot of time to spend on the Mag, so I'm always pleased to get one online. Hey - what about you doing an article for it! I'll give you a page to yourself. Think about it and let me know.

Take good care of yourselves.

All the best for now,

Ian

From Dean

Take a look at this web site! It gives you an opportunity to search the LDS records by batch no. within a particular town or parish. I found it
on the weekly Rootsweb newsletter. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.htm#PageTitle.htm

Dean

Then, a follow up:

As many things often turn out, the search procedure I brought to your attention the other day may be somewhat less than desirable in some
instances because some batch numbers (which the author deemed less reliable) have been excluded from the list. Also, the regular LDS site
yielded a spelling variation which did not appear when starting from the Wallace pages. The alert I received follows.

   Hi Dean and List:
    I will copy a note received on another list. This site is good but.....

    Hugh Wallace's site does not contain all the possible batch numbers, so do not rely on it!!
    Just go to the LDS site and do your own search for batch numbers. All you have to do is enter a
    surname and a region. Then look for the right time period and place. Click on the name and look
    at the bottom of the entry. It will identify a batch number. Go back to the LDS page and enter
    the batch number. If you do region and batch number you get everyone in the parish for that
    time, if you do batch number region and surname you get everyone in that parish for that time
    period with that surname. You can also many times go up or down by a number to get different
    dates. Change the first letter to an M and many times it will be the correct list of marriages.

    Ted
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From: Gary Markland gary.markland@paradise.net.nz
Subject: Web Edition Article

(This e-mail was sent to the old KintyreMag e-address, and I replied using the new IanPEForshaw@aol.com address.)

Hi there,

I came across the following URL in my serach for family tree information:

http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~iforshaw/Mag9/9page7.html

Up to that point I had found little on the origin of the Markland surname. I had one reference that suggested it was a place name in Lancashire and another that said if it migrated from Scotland it had something to do with old land measures.

The URL above explains the "Merkland" old land measure in much detail. Would it be permissible for me to reprint that "Old Land Measures item on my soon to be set up Markland Family home page?

Naturally I'd give online credit for it where credit is due if it is allowed.

Cheers,

Gary Markland

Gary also added the PS which I reprint because it is relevant:

P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy program can be downloaded FREE at http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Index.asp?mid=1AOFmXY

I replied to Gary:

Hey Gary,

As far as I am concerned you are very welcome indeed to reprint that particular article on the Markland Family home page.

I would, of course, be pleased if you would credit the author - Andrew McKerral, C.I.E., M.A., F.S.A.Scot. - and I'd appreciate a mention of the online Magazine at www.KintyreMag.co.uk.

When you're ready to do so, let me have the URL for your family home page, and I'll put it up in the Mag.

All the best to you and yours,

Ian.

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Page 2: A History of the Gilchrists...............continued

Page 3: Innes Scot Wight - A series of Emails

Page 4: Flailing in Kintyre and From the Archivist's Desk

Page 6: James MacMurchy - Part 2

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