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Question:ANY MCBRIDES OUT THERE THAT COULD BE KIN TO ME AND, HELP WITH FAMILY GEANOLOGY?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: ANY MCBRIDES OUT THERE THAT COULD BE KIN TO ME AND, HELP WITH FAMILY GEANOLOGY?

http://genforum.genealogy.com/mcbride/
and
http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.cady...

are devoted to the surname. You must register if you post on either. They don't spam you. Please read
http://www.tedpack.org/goodpost.html
before you post there; they have MUCH higher standards than Y!A.

You might search each forum for surnames of people who have married your McBrides. If you find one, you'll have a connection. Don't search for the word McBride, obviously; since they are devoted to the surname, EVERY message in them has McBride in it. Search for county names for your McBrides too.

Be sure to check "McBride Board only" on the Ancestry one or it will search all of the boards.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/
will lead you to a mailing list for the McBride surname.

http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.c...
has 90,000 entries for McBride. The search engine helps you narrow it down, but don't go overboard; leave out most fields. Don't expect to find living people. Try surname and spouse's surname only as a first shot.

There is a horrible limerick about a man named McBride. Write if you'd like a copy.

McBride is a Celtic name with roots both in Ireland and Scotland. As of 1998, there were some 7,780 people with this surname across the UK, mostly north of the border in Scotland. Your first mistake is assuming that everybody with this surname is related to each other. Just as every Robertson is not related to the same man who lived in a Perthshire village in the 1500s, neither is every McBride related to one particular ancestor. Many different branches of the McBrides would also have emigrated to Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the USA during the 20th, 19th and earlier centuries, so what you are asking is almost impossible. Genealogy just doesn't work like that.

Even my own surname which is a lot rarer than McBride (1,726 of us in 1998!) has many distinct branches, with hardly any of them related to me - at least not close enough in the last seven generations or so! If you met 1000 different people called McBride, you'd be lucky if more than half-a-dozen of them were provable close relatives. The odds are that slim - whereas if you had 1000 people not called McBride, you'd probably find just as many cousins amongst their number.