Maritime Mosaic is a work in progress origionally based on the
descendants of Dougald MacFarlane and Margaret MacDonell who, with
their extended family and allied families, arrived in Nova Scotia in 1801.

What began as a single family study has expanded to include the
interweaving of a group of families, concentrated in Nova Scotia, but
extending along the coastal regions of northeastern North America,
westward to the Pacific and back across the Atlantic to Scotland and
Ireland. Although most of these families originate in the Isles and
Highlands of Scotland there is a substantial Irish influence and a
seasoning of Acadian. In the most recent generations the gene pool has
expanded to include representatives from many other parts of the world.