Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Macneil (and variant spellings) descendants of Nial Noigiallach, who ruled from Barra as High King of Ireland ca. 379-427 A.D. It is one of the oldest clans in Scotland. Clan MacNeil has ties to the island of Barra, tracing its lineage back to the O'Neils of Ulster who came to Barra from Ireland ca. 1000. There were also branches of MacNeils on the Inner Hebridean islands of...

Collection of family group records of families who carry the McNeil, Neely, McNeill, McNeeley, Neil and other related surnames. These records go back to the colonial period.

Lewis (Louis) Neeley was born in Ovid, Seneca Co., New York and married Elizabeth Miller. They became converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and moved to Salt Lake City, Utah.

Kenneth Roosevelt Neeley was born on 11 June 1906 in Burton, Fremont, Idaho and died on 20 October 1953, probably in Salt Lake City. He was the son of Amos William Watts and Ada May. He married Maude Elizabeth Groberg, daughter of John Enoch Groberg and Maud Elizabeth Brunt, in the Salt Lake Temple on 14 September 1927. She was born on 30 April 1908, probably in Idaho, and died on 17 December 1977, probably in Salt Lake city. Record contains biographical...

Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of Enos Austin Neeley and Eva Ann Ricks. Enos was born 19 May 1873 in Bear River City, Utah. He was the son of William Neeley and Mary Christina Nelsen. Eva Ann Ricks was born 28 January 1882 in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was the daughter of Nathan Ricks and Sarah Ann Taylor. Enos Neely mareried Eva Ricks 24 October 1901 in the Salt Lake City, Utah LDS Temple. They lived in Teton Co.,...

Jonathan Calkins Wright was born November 29, 1808 in Rome, Oneida Co., New York, son of Peter Bice Wright and Elizabeth Shead. He married first Rebecca Wheeler ca. 1838. She was the daughter of David Wheeler. She died May 1850 in Council Bluffs, leaving Jonathan with four children. He married second Mary Jane Neeley in 1852. She was the daughter of Louis Neeley and Elizabeth Miller. He had a total of seven wives and was the father of thirty-four...

Anders Persson Groberg (1805-1887) was a son of per Ersson Hellberg Groberg and Margareta Andersdotter. Anders married Catharina Andersotter in 1826, and they became converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1870. At that time, their only daughter and one son had already died, and they still had two sons. The parents and one son immigrated from Sweden to Ogden, Weber County, Utah, leaving their last son (recently married) in Sweden....

Jacob Shepherd was born in 1781, the son of John Shepherd, probably in Virginia. He married Elizabeth Hale who had been born in 1793. Their children included Lucretia, Bryson, John, David, Wilson, Sylvester, William, Elizabeth, Susannah and Abel. Jacob died in Magoffin County, Kentucky in 1858. .

Descendants of Joseph Gaston, b. 1740 in Ireland, married in Chester County, S. C. to Martha Gaston (cousin) in 1770.

Daniel Sturgis was born in 1731 in Maryland. He married Jane Bratton and moved to Sussex County, Delaware about 1750. Most descendants settled in Illinois. Samuel Schooley was raised by John Sturgis. He married Anna Wright about 1782 in South Carolina. Most descendants settled in South Carolina.