The macdonald Surname

macdonald Name Meaning and History

Scottish: see McDonald.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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macdonald Family Facts

Distribution of macdonald Families in the US in 1920

Number of macdonald families

717-1432

240-716

1-239

Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 862 - Messages: 1612

Thread	Author	Replies
James MacDonald	kathymorrison1982	1
Angus and John Macdonald of Antigonish	jamesoneillcondon	11
Re: MIs Grantown old cem Aug 2003,Cruickshank,Fraser,Grant,Mcqueen and others	gfin	8
MACDONALD TREE	JANE MAC DONALD	2
MacDonald/MacDonald	daisydoug	1
Jane MacDonald & William Patterson	Robert Burnham	1
Hugh Mc/MacDonald, b. abt 1850	Benjamin_MacDonald	1
Macdonald (Note the small "d")	Gordon Macdonald	9
Isaac McDonald Resided Ark 1815	KarenC0307	3
MacDonald/McCaskill	rtquinn	0

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