About this site

Primary Research

Walking with Ghosts..........

a website for the descendants of Angus and Nancy McCutchen MacLeod~~

Welcome to the newly redesigned Wilke Family Website. To navigate, please use the links provided on either side of the body of this page. To learn more about the navigation and history of this site and the researchers who have contributed, please begin your visit with Background.

I often tell family and friends that I walk with the ghosts of my late family members. I can recite years of family history, tell you how the name on a tombstone fits into the family tree or when a piece of property came into or went out of our family hands...but I find it difficult to remember the details about those I meet on a daily basis. A fault? Perhaps, but possibly one that is needed in order to be a family historian.

Within the pages of this site one will find a compilation of not only the past eight years of my own research but the combined research of other members of our extended family. Some of these family researchers are now themselves members of the family of ghosts that walk with me....some of them are still among the living.....each will be given credit for the information they have provided in order to create these pages.

If you would like to contribute to the family tree, please email me....If you would like this information for your own records, please remember to copy all the sourcing information (including web page addresses) and to leave that information intact within your own records. In this way, the circle of sharing will remain unbroken for our children and their children......

Shout outs to previous researchers who have provided so much of the information within this site:

Jay Frank McLeod	Donald Ross McLeod Jr. - Kentucky Col.	Col. Purdy Belvin McLeod Jr.

No photographs available - (Please donate a photo if possible):

Jennie Merrit Smith - descendant of Catherine McLeod Mosely

Nicey Jane McLeod Holland Hughes - descendant of John N. McLeod

Trish Sanders Brown - descendant of John N. McLeod

Elizabeth Brown - descendant of John N. McLeod

Bobby Thigpen - researcher of Daniel and Catherine McLean McLeod

Bill Johnson descendant of Daniel and Catherine McLean McLeod through grandson William Thomas McLeod and of Alexander and Sarah McIntosh McLeod through g-granddaughter Katherine McLeod McLeod.

Sideline Research

Family Tree DNA