The genealogy information is in "local" categories, that feed into an overall category - Macaskills".
The locals are as follows:-
1) Bracadale, a parish in Skye, includes the ancestral home of the MacAskills at Runan Dunain, in Minginish.
2) Duirinish parish is adjacent to Bracadale and became home to a branch of the Runan Dunain MacAskills from the late 17th century.
3) Harris is home to almost as large a group of MacAskills as those in Skye, with MacAskill records going back to the 17th century.
4) Glenelg is on the mainland of Scotland just opposite Skye, and this proximity probably explains the presence of MacAskills.
5) EIGG (with Rum,Muck, and Canna) forms the Small Isles parish. Almost certainly it was planted with MacAskills by the Rev Malcolm MacAskill in 1756.
6) Rest of Britain is a large group - reflecting the fact that the exodus from the Highlands was already well advanced by the late 1800s.
7) Canada - in progress
8) USA - in progress only Macaskills
9) Africa.
Only Macaskills
a) Australia and New Zealand - in progress.
Only Macaskills
o) Other
   
    The simplest approach  to check out a Macaskill ancestor is to begin with the Macaskills category of the Genealogy area, and its current file "All" It contains an index sheet 1, descendancy charts sheet 2 , and originating families on sheet 3

    The index is alphabetic, ranking persons of the same name by birth date[DOB]. For each person there is a separate record for each marriage – each record begins with 3 codes- one for sex, another for the local file, and then one for the extent of our genealogical knowledge of the person- ranging from 1 = no knowledge, to 9 = has issue. Each record also contains some, if not all, of these details: name, birth date and place, marriage date and place, death date and place, and spouse. In addition there is a unique IDENT  number, and  family tree [FT] numbers:

FT1 -the personal marriage number
FT2 -the parental marriage number
FTN -the ancestral marriage number
FTM - Spousal Mcaskill heritage marriage number.
 These family tree numbers are followed by 3 more pieces of information. An  *  to denote assistance of others, a reference # to find the individual in the appropriate local file, and a name field to capture variation from a generic spelling- Mcaskill.

When you find a match between your information and that in the index, you should note the # in Column P - ie the number of the originating ancestral Macaskill, and switch to Sheet 2 , running down column P until you reach that number, and see a descendancy chart for that originating family.

[To illustrate, simply go to "Genealogies" and "Macaskills" and the "ALL"  file looking in sheet 1 for a John b 1848 who married a Mary Macdonald. He has 1 in col A to denote male,5 in col B to denote he can also be found in the "Eigg" area, and 9 in col C to denote that he had children. His FT sequence - beginning col P is 207,205,204, blank.
These numbers are all different so that means that his ancestor is at least his grandfather or of an earlier generation. the blank means his wife, Mary Macdonald, has no known Macaskill heritage. To find the descendancy chart beginning with his ancestor FTN = 207, simply go to sheet 2 and run down col P to find 207 which begins with an unknown Macaskill who married a Mary Cameron of Minginish,Skye, who was born in 1688.]
 Currently there are some 750 separate originating families and these are displayed on sheet 3, listed by number, name, time and size.
The local area files have slightly different formats but the same basic pattern, and will be modified to the "Macaskills" pattern shortly. All these spreadsheets are supported by PAF files which may contain additional information eg details of the spouses, or children died young.

If you want to follow up any individual call me at  citing the IDENT number, and register in the guestbook.