Reply #109: English, Scottish on my dad's side

[frogmarch]

and English and East Indian on my birth mother's.

I found my mother's family when I was a young adult by writing to the orphanage in the U.S. where my older sister and I temporarily lived upon coming to America when we were very young. We remained there till our dad, who was in the U.S. Army, was stateside again. Our mother had died in India when I was 10 days old and my sister 2 1/2. Our mother's sister had written to the orphanage to ask about us just before I wrote to the orphanage. The orphanage put us in touch with each other.

It was right here that I got my first big start in finding my dad's family. Because of the help - including links to vital records documents - I received here, I am now on a roll. I've since located a cousin of mine. Our dads were brothers. My cousin is very good at genealogy, and as it turns out, has records of our family that go waaaay back.

Here are two pages from a genealogy book pertaining to the McKays, our paternal Scottish ancestors: (By messing with the url, I'll try to make sure they don't open here.)

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If anyone's interested in seeing the pages, just add http: to the beginning of each url.