Which Reminds Me

Yes, my grandfather was a McClellan, and there is even a book about the family. I believe that mention is made somewhere, in the book or elsewhere, of the possibility of some distant family connection to the Civil War general, George McClellan. However, he really does not figure in our family book. It is thought that if you could trace everyone back to Scotland perhaps you could find some vague connection there, some evidence of a distant cousin of very high degree. However, it is nearly impossible for us to trace ourselves back beyond the two brothers, John and Henry, who came to America from Scotland in the mid-1700s. They were children when they came here and no explanatory trail was found of their parentage by those eminent persons who wrote the family book, and even traveled to Scotland to search in church records there for some clue, so I doubt that I could do any better without some serious money and lots of luck. And even so, so what? It just isn't worth it to regular people like me. That is a job best left to the historians.