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From: "robert mclaren" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] France and R1b...
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 22:51:02 -0400


Dora,

Any name that starts with Mac or Mc (or the old M') can be either Scots or
Irish. Mc and M' are abbreviations of Mac and mean "son of".

Bob McLaren
Chairman, Genealogy Committee, Clan MacLaren Society of North America
Administrator, Clan MacLaren Surname DNA Project


> [Original Message]
> From: Dora Smith <>
> To: <>
> Date: 9/11/2006 9:58:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [DNA] France and R1b...

<SNIP>
>
> her name, nor pronounce it, but both of those names are corruptions of
> McBain and McBean. Any name that starts with Mc is Scottish. The
> wedding and the baptisms of his four children were at all three
Presbyterian
> churches in Montreal, and at no other church. They said they were
Irish.
>
<SNIP>

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