McCord Name Study
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[send private message] and Kathleen McCord [send private message]The goal of this project is to share genealogical McCord research discoveries preferably with known, verifiable sources. Yet, we are handicapped by the loss of public records for McCords both in the USA & the UK, prior to the 1800's. Hence, drawing a direct family line to ancestors across the Atlantic is near impossible. But there is hope! New genetic testing technologies has entered the realm.
I am Kathleen McCord and have been researching McCords, in the USA, the UK and elsewhere since 1999. I also am co-administrator for the McCord Ydna Project on Family Tree DNA.
Here are some of the tasks that I think need to be done. I'll be working on them, and could use your help with sharing the research data that we already know. I have listed a lot of documents to upload and after you read them, questions and commentary is encouraged.
McCords have a long and very interesting history. One to be proud of.
Will you join me? Please post a comment here on this page, in G2G using the project tag, or send me a private message. Thanks!
This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about one surname and the variants of that name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect. Please contact the project leader, add categories to your profiles, add your questions to the bulletin board, add details of your name research, etc.
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- Hello all Genealogists! Anyone interested in SW Scotland? Jun 10, 2016.
- Any "McCord" surname genealogists? Jun 10, 2016.
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My 6th great-grandfather was David McCord (10 Mar 1747 - 04 Jan 1818) married to Anne Lee Shipley (28 Apr 1746 - 1828). When I started researching over 20 years ago there was an active McCord Family Association online which claimed that all McCords were descended from the same line that went back to a clan chief in Scotland who was killed in battle in 1689, after which the clan fled Scotland to the new world after some time in Northern Ireland, led by William McCord "The Immigrant". The Association had family line designators set up, and according to them, my line through David McCord was "Family B".
Fast forward 20 years, and (according to the DNA experts, which I am NOT one) the DNA now says that there are in fact two different sources for McCords today (type 1a and type 1b), and they diverged from each other about 1900 years ago - WAY before 1689. As I understand it, William the Immigrant was type 1b, and my Family B is type 1a.
The current entries in WikiTree show that my David a grandson of William the Immigrant. The DNA disagrees. Furthermore, I have letters written long ago by a grandchild of David which say that David was not born here, but "came from across the sea". I do not have any information on his parents.
William the Immigrant DID have a grandson named David, but I believe this a different person from my ancestor - mostly due to the DNA evidence, but also there seems to be a difference in date of birth - 1745 vs. 1747. But of course, birth dates back then can be iffy.
All of this is to ask - what do I do with this information on WikiTree? The manager of David's profile has given me permission to make appropriate changes if I have proof. I find the divergent DNA to be fairly compelling, but I don't know if it's enough. Maybe more important, there are hundreds - maybe thousands - of descendants from the two David McCords. Splitting them into the two different individuals that I believe them to be would be a gargantuan undertaking, and would upset many, many descendants' trees based on long-standing beliefs. If it were to happen, we might need to make a WikiTree project out of it, because it would likely be too much for any one person to handle.
On the one hand, it makes some sense to let sleeping dogs lie. On the other hand, I do believe that the status quo is incorrect.
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