Note to Researchers

From its inception, this site has been intended as a resource for those of us researching this remarkable surname. Since we launched the One Name Study, this is even more true. This site is a "Central Repository" for all things MCKEMIE. And it can only prosper through your generosity.

If you have found a connection here, show your appreciation by contributing to the growth of the site. Do this by sharing documents, photographs, family legends, or by simply sharing what you know about your branch of our family tree.

If you have not found something on these pages, we need to correct that oversight! And you can do this by sharing documents, photographs, family legends, or by sharing your branch of the family tree.

Do you see a theme here? This is OUR site. To make the most of the information we all have, we need to share it. The rewards are infinite, the challenge insignificant. Working together, we can uncover information and details heretofore unknown. Working together, we can topple brick walls previously insurmountable. Working together, we can "fill in the blanks". But most importantly, working together we can meet and learn about our extended family.

Take a look at the list of items on the One Name Study main page--there are two columns of "examples" of documents/information that would be of benefit to this site. If you explore this site, you will find that there are many tables with basic information--births, marriages, burials. So, even if you don't have a so-called "document" to share, you more than likely DO have information to share. Please, please feel free to email me with any questions.

If you are able, please consider sending a GEDCOM file of your family tree to the One Name Study. This information will stay within the Study and will NOT be shared with programs such as RootsWeb's World Connect or Ancestry.com's database of family trees. But this information WILL be shared with other INDIVIDUALS researching MCKEMIE/MCKAMEY/MAKEMIE/MCKEMY/etc. lines with the hope of helping them find their branch within our family tree. The reason for this central database is to have a way of responding to inquiries via the web site and to continue the goals of the One Name Study and discover how all the MCKs fit together. While I serve as the "Mother Hen" of the database, I enthusiastically welcome inquiries, additions, and corrections.

Additionally, please consider having your name listed on our burgeoning "Researcher's Registry". This registry includes your name, your contact information, your connection to the clan, and any other information you wish to include in your entry. I have held off creating this registry until I learned how to shield email addresses from the abusive "email address harvesters" that surf the web for addresses to exploit. I have since learned a method of "encoding" email addresses that is supposed to trick these spambots, but nothing is 100%. Rest assured that *I* am not collecting your names and email addresses to sell or rent them. The only purpose of pages like the Registry is to facilitate communication between the various lines of this family and aid in our research.

If you have one of the more obscure branches on the tree, please let me know. We can design pages within the MCK site to highlight your branch of the family and hopefully shed some light on your mystery.

You are free to share this site and the information within with your friends and family. However, you may NOT sell, redistribute, or upload this information in any for-profit form without the express permission of the contributor. Naturally, basic facts cannot be copyrighted, but respect the contributors mentioned within these pages. Their hard work deserves to be recognized and acknowledged.

Warmly,
Jennifer McKemie
Marietta, Georgia, USA
September 20, 2003