Happily I came across your history of the Yew Tree
in Fortingall. I descended from the McKerchers of Glen Lyon and have
visited the Glen and especially the cemetery in which the Yew Tree
stands. Three generations of my family were factors at Meggernie
estate in the 18th and early 19th centuries. With your permission, I
should like to include your web site with full attribution to your personal
efforts to my family web site at http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/a/c/John-C-Mackercher/
I will appreciate your consideration to this
request.
Thank you for your message. Yes, by all
means use what is helpful from our website for your family website.
My wife, Theresa, and I lived at
Invervar in Glen Lyon for five and a half years until 2003 when we moved here
to Camserney, near Aberfeldy. As you will appreciate the remarkable energy and
beauty of the Glen is very special.
You are right about the importance of
the matrilinear line of genealogical descent. In olden times the bloodline was
always traced primarily through the female line. This was the case with the
ancient picts for instance.
Your family links back to the royal
trojan dynasty is interesting. Some, at least, of the old royal families of
Britain claim trojan descent as, I believe, did the Caesars of
Rome.
I will pass on details of your family
website to a friend, Sheila McBride, who lives in Aberfeldy. Sheila has a
number of family relatives, going back several generations, buried in the
kirkyard at Fortingall. She may be able to assist with local
information.
Lastly, I have subscribed you
to my occasional e-zine articles as requested.