We hope that this web site provides an interesting look at the ancestry of our McCartney and McClung families. Three different versions of our research results are available:

1)      a version suitable for the general public, (this one) accessible via the world-wide-web. It does not include pictures beyond 'mug shots' nor document scans and omits details of living persons. It does include abreviated source citations;

2)      a version for family members only which includes details of all our direct relatives and their spouses, living and dead, but does not include families related only by marriage. Also included are pictures of individuals and scans of important documents. This version, and periodic updates, are available to family members on CD-ROM, upon request;

3)      serious researchers, inside and outside our families, are encouraged to request further details of specific lines that they are working on. We would appreciate, in return, results of thier research as it applies to our McCartney and McClung families.  (See Credit where Credit is Due, below.)

 

Icon Legend

Icons are used on the detail pages to indicate attributes of individuals and in other places for various reasons. Placing your cursor over an icon will usually display a short explanation. Here is a more detailed guide to what they mean.

A person of male gender.
A person of female gender.
A person of unknown gender. (There are few of these!)
A person of Indian (Native American) descent. All others, not so marked, can be assumed to be White (Caucasian).
A person born as a twin.
A person born as a triplet.
A deceased person. Either a death or burial date is known, or this person would be over 110 years old today.
A person that died young, generally before the age of majority. This person definitely had no children.
A link to a picture, generally associated with nearby text.
Indicates that this child has known descendents (children).
Indicates that this person has a thumbnail picture (mug shot) available.

 

About Names

One thing that confronted me when I started researching my family was the many variations in the spelling of names.  Given names are a real nightmare, for instance consider Ann, Nancy and Mary, all of which have been used interchangably.  To add even more confusion are the given name / middle name swaps -- Mary Jane could be Mary J., and then a few years later, Jane M.  Surnames add even more confusion.  My paternal surname, McCartney, has been spelled McCarty, McKartney, Mc Cartney, McCartny and several other variations over the years.  Even worse, my mother's family started out in Italy as DiFrancesco; various cousins have used DiFrank, LaFrance, Francesco, Frances and so forth.  In the individual listings you will see the name variations as they were spelled at the time of each event.  So, do not be put off with all these spellings - it just goes with the territory.  I have used the most common name for each person where I could figure it out; fortunately all surname variations are included in the index so you can find them, with a little persistence.

 

Credit where Credit is Due

This work has not been mine alone. Assistance is gratefully acknowledged from those listed below and, with apologies, to anyone that may have been omitted from this list.

  • My work is an extension of the efforts of my late mother, Virginia (Frances) McCartney Hoekzema. She became interested in genealogy in the 1980s and after taking an extension course in the subject, thoroughly researched our family to the best of her ability. One of the results of her work was an extensive scrapbook produced in three copies and presented to each of her children. In 1986 she and her younger brother, Tony Frances, organized a family reunion in Ohio for the Frances (DiFrancesco) clan that was well attended. As she aged, all of her documentation was passed to me and it has been a wonderful source of information.
  • The McClung family has been interconnected with the McCartney family for over 250 years. A McClung descendant, my fifth cousin, and co-author Donald J. Martin, Ph.D. has done an outstanding job researching his family. Donald has generously shared the results of his research and that combination initially created this web site. Most of the McClung-related data and photos here are due to the generosity of Donald; and he is a pleasure to work with.
  • My first cousin twice removed, the late Alfred Livingstone McCartney, was active in the SAR (Sons of the American Revolution). He was quite the genealogical researcher for his time; some of his work has found its way to me via letters he wrote to my grandfather Clinton McCartney and other family members. Thank you, Alfred, RIP.
  • Third cousin, Anne (Katterjohn) Gibbs from Kentucky has been extremely helpful with information from her branch of the family, including more letters written by cousin Alfred and information about his father, Livingstone A. McCartney and family.
  • Fourth cousin Ann (McCartney) Shaddock, from North Carolina, provided information regarding her line of descent from Charles McCartney, a son of Henry McCartney and Rebecca McClung, including several portraits.  She has been an on-going help to us.
  • Another fourth cousin, Gail (Sherman) Hakim provided pointers that helped me research her grandfather John Willard Sherman whose life had been a mystery to her family.
  • Fifth cousin Marilyn Meyer Wursten, from Utah, provided information regarding our connection with her Denton, Meyer, and Wursten ancestors.
  • My fifth cousin once removed, Karen Enzie-Craig provided information regarding our connection with her Denton, Enzie, and Fenton ancestors.
  • Another fifth cousin once removed, Leslie (Sheedy) Lintz provided information regarding our connection with her Kime, McClung, Reader, and Sheedy ancestors.
  • My sixth cousin twice removed, Frank McCullough has kindly provided substantial information and pictures regarding his Clark and Mather ancestors.  They were among the early pioneers of California and some led very interesting lives.  Thank you, Frank.
  • My sister, Carol (McCartney) Roberts and my brother, John L. McCartney have both been very helpful in providing more recent family information.
  • My life partner, Joan Zuckerman, has been supportive during this work; in addition she has assisted in proofreading my output.

About Accuracy

Genealogy is far from an exact science. Genealogists often use words such as perhaps, probably, possibly, and likely; but rarely use a word such as definitely to describe the results of their work. While it may appear that all the information on this site is definite, the truth is that much of it is possible, some of it is probable and a small portion is just barely likely. The reader is warned that everything herein is subject to change when better data becomes available.  If you find information here that conflicts with what you know from other sources we want to know about it so that the conflict can be resolved.  Please contact Craig by emial, or any other means convenient for you.

Speaking of Change

We update this web site often, as new information becomes available.  Sometimes this new information replaces, or even eliminates, information that was on this site prior to the update.  There are three ways for you keep track of these changes. Hint:  Use your brower's refresh (F5 for IE) to flush any cache that may be showing you an older version.

  1. In the footer at the bottom of every page is a line, beginning with Site updated on that gives both the date of the most recent update and the number of people included as of that date.  You can keep any eye on these numbers to make sure you are working with the latest version. 
  2. The What's New? page lists recent changes in reverse chronalogical order.  Click on it from the menu bar at the top of any page.
  3. At the detail level, every person has  a Last Edited date, found at the end of that person's entry, just before the citations.  This is the date that this person's information was last changed in the underlying database program (The Master Genealogist, v7) that this site is generated from.  Keep a close eye on this date if you are following one or more people closely. 

You can help.

Please check the listings for all relatives of whom you have definite knowledge. Submit corrections and missing information (especially pictures that you want to share) by email, fax, postal letter, carrier pigeon or personal visit.

Thank you.

Craig McCartney & Donald J. Martin, Ph.D.