Twigs

A few more twigs have been included on at least two of the descendant charts.

• the family of William & Elizabeth (HASTIE) RUNCIMAN of Iowa, descendants in California
  (lineage 1c OR 2b - anomaly to be investigated!)
• the line of Thomas & Jean (McBRIDE) RUNCIMAN of Toronto, descendants in Ohio, then Florida (lineage 1b, William of Crail)

Bit of a catch up

It's been a while since the RUNCIMAN ONS Lineage pages were published.
That doesn't meant that nothing happened behind the scenes, just that updates to the web were lagging behind.

Checking the Recent Changes index shows that the update just published newly includes some info on the William RUNCIMAN, Esq. of Birchmore House, near Woburn and his mysteriously disappeared-from-view grandson Philip, last seen in New York.

The next family newly included is that of James RUNCIEMAN aka RUNCH of Kirkintilloch, then Campsie, Stirling. The family did eventually seem to settle on RUNCIMAN as their surname!

A couple of John RUNCIMANs have been given a page of their own, as there has in the past been some confusion over which John RUNCIMAN belonged to which family.
One to William of Crail's line, the other to Thomas and Alison (CURRIE) RUNCIMAN.

Not shown in the recent changes index will be any background additions to assorted descendant charts.
One known change is the inclusion of a few more descendants of Alexander and Joan (MANDERSON) RUNCIMAN. Anyone know what happened to their 3*great grandson Alexander in Portland, Oregon? Son of Alexander RUNCIMAN and Geneva MARTINDALE?

We've also extended northwards with the inclusion of some of the Aberdeen family of Andrew and Jane (DOWNIE) RUNCIEMAN/RUNSIMAN.

Meikle Pinkerton?

With another round of dna testing discounts on offer for a limited time this week, we would very much like to find direct male line RUNCIMAN candidates to represent as many of the main lines believed to belong to Alexander & Janet (HENDRIE) RUNICMAN of Meikle Pinkerton as possible.

Results to date have indicated that we may have a bit of a problem with our paper trails !

Take a look at Alexander's descendant chart (click on expand all to see the full chart), and his grandson Thomas' page, where the conundrum is documented (scroll down to the box after the BDM heading).

Completely unrepresented as yet are descendants of:

• Robert & Agnes (KING) RUNCIMAN,
• George & Janet (DARLING) RUNCIMAN
• Alexander & Joan (MANDERSON) RUNCIMAN.

We hope of course, that any such participants would be an excellent match to Peter (R-12), the descendant of John & May (WEATHERLIE) RUNCIMAN, but if  they match any of the other "mis"matches already received we will most definitely be forced to redraw this tree.

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To join the project, follow this link. Please select at least Y-DNA37 as the test, although Y-DNA67 would be great.
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The Perth connection - or not?

A lot of the recent changes between the 6th and today are tidy-ups of the remnants of the background changes to make the assorted sites easier to maintain and link.
Exceptions are the inclusion of George, the Perth connection sometimes suggested for Thomas of Innerwick, and of his wife Alison GRIEVE with an alternate set of parents to those sometimes suggested.
Also a WHITECROSS tree highlighting the assorted RUNCIMAN connections along with how the assorted WHITECROSSes are related.

Runcimans Where?

Those listed on the Recent Changes for 6th May are all newly included on the One Name Study pages but not new lineages.
Decided it was time to get a few more pins on the map!
As the introduction for the lineage location page states this map is distinct from the map(s) in the Analysis section in that it involves individuals as opposed to summary place/surname data.
Both place pages have been added to the sidebar menu for easier access.

The former shows only birth (green) and death (red) information for those included on the site where these places have been geo-coded - a growing number, but a lot yet to come.

Zoom in for finer details and click on the balloon to see who is associated with each place shown.

Where births and deaths occur at the same place you may have to zoom to the closest level possible to see both coloured balloons.

Suggestions for people (no longer living) to include to show the dispersion of the RUNCIMAN surname across the globe are welcome, e.g. the first of a branch to reach a new country/county/state.
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RUNCHMAN for a change

The Edward RUNCHMAN on today's Recent Change index is the taster for a tree beginning to be included on the One Name Study pages. Interesting set of surname variants, earliest forbear so far is a John RUNSHIMAN from Cornill in Northumberland.  Descendants named variously RUNSIMAN, RUNCEMAN before settling on RUNCHMAN down to close to present day.  
Edward settled, with his mother Cherry CAMBPELL, in New Brunswick (which is how William of the VALLANCE line was also found)

And now New Brunswick

The family of George and Agnes (VALLANCE) RUNCIMAN, some of whom ended up in Annapolis, has been updated to include a newfound branch in New Brunswick, that of William & Jeanie (MacAULAY) RUNCIMAN. Perhaps this branch may have some living RUNCIMAN  descendants interested in helping document their family history?
This tree has been included on WeRelate for anyone interested in sharing information, and links added to/from their One Name Study pages.