Interested to read that the Clan Gunn Society of Nova Scotia is closing down because of a lack of members.
Not surprising really; genealogical links to your own family can be easily explored on the internet, one certainly does not need a Society for such research. That leaves a 'Clan' Gunn Society to do what? Pretend fictional history is real history, such as with the 'Clan' Gunn non-links to an Orkney Island / Viking origin? Or pretend the the non-existing Clan Gunn Westford Knight absurd story is true? Or to dress up in 'Gunn' tartan invented in the early 1800s for the tourist trade? You get the idea... As well, Scottish Gunns are by origin a non-kindred group of people from the Highlands. Just because we share the same surname we do not necessarily share any ancestor so we have no automatic DNA link with other random people with the name Gunn who one would regularly meet in Clan Gunn Society events. People on one's actual Family Tree are, of course, different...
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Laura
16/4/2019 08:54:18
I'm looking for information on the Gunn clan. My great grandfather is Hugh George Gunn married to vesta Smith two children catherine and Dorthy
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Alastair
16/4/2019 09:01:20
Sorry I can't help - try an online genealogical resource like 'Ancestry'. Best wishes...
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