In case anyone
is tuning in here and wondering what has been happening in recent times, I feel
I should post an update. Over the last couple of years I have occasionally been
adding to a family tree at ancestry.com. The tree is called McWhistory, and it goes
further back and also much wider than the entries in this blog. This includes
some extensive exploration of my maternal side (Riddell), as well as the McWilliam background, and has led to several
meetings with new-found cousins (2nd, 3rd, 4th)
and even to an extended family gathering. DNA tests have helped in establishing or
verifying many of those connections.
This
ancestry work has also helped me identify a few minor inaccuracies in some
posts in this blog, which I have now tried to correct. For anyone who would like to see the
McWhistory tree, it is available for public viewing at ancestry.com. At the
time of writing there over 1000 named people in the tree. Please let me know if you have difficulty in
locating it, and I will send an invitation with a specific link. And of course I will welcome any suggestions
for improvement.
Finally (for now) I will attach a colourised version of that old (1893) photo of the McWilliam family at Glencorrie, and another wider view of the farm buildings. Thanks to myheritage.com for the free use of deoldify software.
