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I haven’t done that much more work on my family’s genealogy, but one of the books in our possession is a self published volume entitled “The Dougans of Cobble Hill”.  This was produced by Nathan Dougan or based on his writings and documents in his possession.  It has a fairly accurate family tree for Dougans [...]

I’ve spent much of the last 24 hours entering Muschamp ancestors into Reunion 9 from “Northumberland Families Volume One” augmented by other sources.  My biggest contribution is filling out the Emerson Muschamp portion of the family tree found on page 49.  I also have some notes on other Muschamps who were born in the 1900s.  [...]

A couple times now I’ve been tasked with creating a family tree for family reunions.  Finally I decided to invest in some software and merge all the information I had or could find easily into one big family tree.  The software I bought was Reunion 9 which is expensive and Mac-only.  However I did some [...]

A few days ago we drove to Victoria for the McKay family reunion or a close approximation. This was my dad’s dad’s side of the family. Besides my mom and my sister I only had met one person who was at the house prior to November 5th, 2006. It was a long drive and we [...]