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SGKMacLeod family history 

Philip Griffin <griff.phil@gmail.com>	Wed, Jun 2, 7:02 AM (6 days ago)
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Hi Scott I am Philip and I live on PEI, I have been doing my family history for years and I have my grandmothers DNA on Ancestry and wondering if we match?  

Recently discovered a match to Sandy Macleod from Isle of Raasay.  OUr common ancestor is Alex Gillis`s mother who was a Macleod.  I am thinking that she may have been Norman John Macleods sister.  Alex named 2 sons Norman too and they lived in Hartsville PEI. 

Are you on gedmatch?  Her username is margaretceletta34 on ancestry.

thanks

Philip

Hi Scott I am Philip and I live on PEI, I have been doing my family history for years and I have my grandmothers DNA on Ancestry and wondering if we match?  

Recently discovered a match to Sandy Macleod from Isle of Raasay.  OUr common ancestor is Alex Gillis`s mother who was a Macleod.  I am thinking that she may have been Norman John Macleods sister.  Alex named 2 sons Norman too and they lived in Hartsville PEI. 

Are you on gedmatch?  Her username is margaretceletta34 on ancestry.

thanks

Philip

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Hi Philip, 

Thanks for your email. Will check it out. (Is this you - https://www.linkedin.com/in/phillip-griffin-9803031a/ ?)

(Do you know my cousin Mark MacLeod, now of Portland, Maine, but formerly of Newfoundland, and my brother Sandy MacLeod, in Portland, Maine, too?:)

Thanks, 

Scott

Some related genealogy resources of mine: 

http://scottmacleod.com/ScottMacLeodFamilyHistory.htm

http://scottmacleod.com/family.htm

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/MacLeod-2524

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/162331043/person/252114291549/story

SGKMacLeod family history label - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/SGKMacLeod%20family%20history - 

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- Scott GK MacLeod  

Founder, President, CEO & Professor

World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 

1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org 

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 

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Philip Griffin

Wed, Jun 2, 8:48 AM (6 days ago)

to me

Hi Scott, no that's not me but I am on LinkedIn but from PEI.  I just spell my name with one L not two.   I have spoken to Mark yes about the Macleods as well. So your cousins as well. 

I am heading to work soon but let me know if you find any leads or a connection. 

Philip

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Hi Philip,

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly (and is this you then in L.I. - https://ca.linkedin.com/in/philip-griffin-ab34a933 ?) I couldn't find margaretceletta34 on Ancestry - not surprising in my experience - nor in WikiTree (but I was able to find via Google Search my own WikiTree - https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/MacLeod-2524 - by way of comparison). Can you possibly send a whole link for margaretceletta34 ... (like https://www.ancestry.com/account/profile/07376f97-0006-0000-0000-000000000000)?

Great that you and Mark have spoken - he knows Ancestry very well - and regarding some of the information you shared. 

I'm in GEDmatch - and this sgkmaciii is my new alias, for Scott GK MacLeod.

By way of comparison with Ancestry, are you in WikiTree, and have you followed, or created, related trees up to margaretceletta34 and beyond ?

Best wishes, 

Scott

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Hi Philip, and Mark, 

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Philip Griffin

Sun, Jun 6, 2:27 PM (2 days ago)

to me

Hi Scott, I managed to invite you to view Margaret's tree and you should be able to find her profile.  I wish Ancestry made it easier to find other. 

I am going to finish cutting my lawn and I can email you in a bit.   

Let me know if you found her tree.  

I have noticed on dna painter and ancestry that Joy Stiles shares the same ancestor as Sandy MacLeod does with us. 

There must be a link between the Macleods and Gillis's or between the families that came to PEI from idle of raasay.

Philip

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Hi Philip, 

There wasn't any invitation in Ancestry, and when I searched on Margaret Celetta's name here - https://www.ancestry.com/search/ - still nothing. Where did you send the invitation, if I might ask? 

Perhaps we can find the names you mention in WikiTree instead. Any dates associated with any of their names? 

Thanks, Scott

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- Scott GK MacLeod  

Founder, President, CEO & Professor

World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 

1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org 

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 

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Hi Philip, 

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Philip Griffin	Sun, Jun 6, 3:04 PM (2 days ago)
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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>	Sun, Jun 6, 3:06 PM (2 days ago)
to Philip

Hi Philip,

Nothing came to this gmail address besides what I shared with you (from Ancestry).

Thanks, Scott

PS

I just found this resource, as an aside - and which could be helpful, especially as it makes its way online and out of the 'locked' libraries ... 

Chadbourne, Chadbourn

Special Collections Stacks Chadbourne-Chadbourn Genealogy (College: CS:E533 C42)

https://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/subject-guides/genealogical-resources.shtml

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- Scott GK MacLeod  

Founder, President, CEO & Professor

World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 

1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org 

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 

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Philip,

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Mark MacLeod

Sun, Jun 6, 5:18 PM (2 days ago)

to me

Scott,

Good to hear from you!

Let's see - lots of questions.

We will likely be in Maine around August 1. We are spending time at our new house in Portland, which we love, and the lake house in Buxton, 40 minutes away. I'm currently at the lake with Anne and her family. If you come to Maine, we should definitely get together. We have extra bed space in Portland and Buxton.

I'll leave the Chadbourne research to you. I'm still working the MacLeod side. I feel I'm close to figuring out who came before James MacLeod's father Norman MacLeod, b. c. 1785. On our way back from Acadia 2 days ago I stopped by our great grandfather's grave (Ernest James MacLeod, 1876-1961). It's in Ellsworth, Maine.

Ancestry search stuff is sadly limited to Ancestry records. Not much linkage to outside sources. I've recently started using Family Tree Maker which is dynamically linked to my work on Ancestry. FTM has search features.

Mark

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Philip, Mark, 

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Mark, 

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Hi Philip and Mark,

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Philip Griffin

5:47 AM (16 hours ago)

to me

Good morning Scott, I reentered the Twitter world to give it another try.  I was so tired of hearing everything about covid I deleted my old account. 

I was checking an old email conversation I had with a Donald Mackenzie and Angus Macmillan both from Isle of Lewis and they are very distant dna matches.  Thier common ancestor was Kenneth MacLeod born 1810.  At first I thought maybe it was through the Macleods of Assynt but know I see how thier was a connection between Lewis and Raasay.  

Philip

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Hi Philip and Mark, 

Thanks for your email today, Philip, with some interesting 'leads.' I'd like to introduce you both to one another beyond including you in the same email. Mark's my first cousin living in Maine, now, and has done extensive genealogical research on PEI, where our great great grandfather James Edward MacLeod (McLeod) was a tailor and kilt maker, having left Scotland as a youth, before emigrating many decades later to Massachusetts (3 countries from around the 1820 to the 1890s); Mark is also a remarkable Ancestry genealogist and knows genealogical genetics too. Philip lives on PEI, and is interested in Ancestry genealogy, and GED genetics as well. 

Mark, are you familiar with any of these distant genetic matches that Philip just shared this morning? - 

"I was checking an old email conversation I had with a Donald Mackenzie and Angus Macmillan both from Isle of Lewis and they are very distant dna matches.  Their common ancestor was Kenneth MacLeod born 1810.  At first I thought maybe it was through the Macleods of Assynt but know I see how there was a connection between Lewis and Raasay."  

Any chance they could be relatives of ours too, Mark - and regarding Norman MacLeod of the isle of Raasay, James Edward MacLeod's father? 

Thanks,

Scott

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/SGKMacLeod%20family%20history

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- Scott GK MacLeod  

Founder, President, CEO & Professor

World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 

1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org 

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 

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Philip, Mark, 

Thanks too for sharing the Mackenzie tree ,Philip - https://www.ancestry.ca/family-tree/tree/171079986/family/familyview?cfpid=202216599223 . I'm just recalling that Isobel MacKenzie was married to Norman MacLeod of the isle of Raasay I think, and viewable in a different way here - https://www.wikitree.com/genealogy/MacLeod-Family-Tree-2925 - and am wondering how some of the people you mention might somehow fit into these trees anew. Thoughts, and also regarding the conversation between the two platforms, beyond the distant GED matches in Ancestry that you found, Philip, Mark? 

Cheers, Scott

How far back can we go with the MacLeod name+ here - 

https://www.wikitree.com/genealogy/MacLeod-Family-Tree-2524 ? :)

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- Scott GK MacLeod  

Founder, President, CEO & Professor

World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 

1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org 

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 

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Mark MacLeod

5:27 PM (5 hours ago)

to Philip, me

Scott and Philip,

Thanks Scott for the kind words but I am strictly an amateur genealogist! I am reminded by more serious genealogists that my genealogical habits are less than professional. I just smile!

I see that I haven't convinced you Scott that James MacLeod's middle name was NOT Edward. Our family made up this middle name. The name Edward was simply non-existent in the early 1800s on Raasay. Something to do with the hated kings of England I think. 

The link to Lewis is definitely there but it is not clear how it was established. The 'ancient' history of Raasay is that it was granted to Malcolm MacLeod, second son of the 9th chief of Lewis, another Malcolm, in the early 1500s. But this can't explain the autosomal DNA matches as this event is too far back in time.

Another idea, and established fact I think, is that after the battle of Culloden in 1746, and after the redcoats destroyed Raasay in retribution, many folks left Raasay for Lewis and settled there.

I'm in contact with a Colin MacLeod from Lewis and he is a weak DNA match to many folks from Raasay. He feels this is tied to the Culloden migration. We are both pursuing more Y-DNA tests with FTDNA to add to our own results that show similarities.

I just hope we never discover that we are related to Donald Trump's mother Mary MacLeod who is from Lewis. :-)

I don't recognize the name Kenneth MacLeod as part of our distant relatives but it's possible we haven't come across this line yet.

Mark

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