The Oak Island Mystery

[Keith Ranville]

Oak Island Reveals it’s Secrets                                        

March 9, 2007
It is I, keith Ranville’ Oak Island’s leading treasure hunter; up to now’ I have been receiving considerable amount of attention for my discoveries, concerning the Oak Island treasure mystery evidence brought forward as clues that was not fully understood up to now. Pay NO attention to scrupulous people portraying they know me? Here are some of there opening statements; keith old chap or I know keith , ect..

These People are opportunists that are trying to cash in or hitch a ride on my growing treasure hunting notoriety for my discoveries without them having any such notoriety for themselves, to display nor they have a recognized reputable treasure hunter background, to comment on’ in regards of my research, that they have no involvement in or they do not have a full understanding of any of my research concepts. At this time I am involved in a project regarding an Oak Island Documentary, that I will be showcasing adventurous treasure hunting footage and all my new research discoveries and new information that will be explained in full explanation in the documentary.
 
I give thanks to websites that host my logical research and the theories that arise from it, from the hard work I made into adventure, that caught the eye of websites that venue’s information and entertains peoples curiosities. The supportive people of me will have a noticeable Canadian Heritage involvement, on any out come of this Oak Island legendary historical venture.     

Oak Island treasure mystery is mystic place that has many avenues of clues that can lead to many places, there is a right path and I am on it’ and I invite the world on my quest in to discovery, that will be taking departure for a scheduled “voyage” so all can a board on the release date of my documentary when announced.

Film Documentary information
http://www.treasurestories.losttreasurehunting.com/2007/03/02/legendary-treasure-story-to-be-filmed-oak-island-treasure/

http://kr-mendhak-com.bloghi.com/2007/03/01/oak-island-feature-documentary-film-exclusive-keith-ranville.html


Sincerely

Oak Island’s Leading researcher

Canadian Cree First Nations & Sinclair Heritage

Keith Ranville

http://kr.mendhak.com

http://www.mythandmystery.com/sir_francis_bacon_oak_island_connection.htm

http://www.treasurestories.losttreasurehunting.com/2007/02/13/oak-island-treasure-mystery-watermark-cipher/
     



 http://oakislandmoneypitblogspotcom.blogspot.com/

http://community.discoverychannel.ca/eve/forums/a/frm/f/36810831
                   

[Keith Ranville]

Letter Forwarded
Greetings! I am writing to the likes of my friends, and people I associate with to bring forth a story that is more intriguing than any I have heard in a long time. Now what makes this story more intriguing is this is a person that I’ve known for a long time. One day he started to speak to us about a treasure; now of course we all looked at him with animosity; because who really; out of the blue just starts to talk about a treasure. I always knew Keith to be very above averagely intelligent; now to us we thought it was something that he was making up. Now what is more interesting is one day he Left his life behind and everything he owned in Vancouver to adventure across Canada to Oak Island in Nova Scotia to find this treasure. Now all of this was a tremendous surprise to the likes of everyone I knew. Now a year and half goes by, and guess who I hear from, Keith Ranville, and he was actually onto something. I don’t know but to me this story doesn’t happen to many people; and I am in contact with Keith to this point. I have gained a distinct interest in this treasure. He is going through a lot of hardship from the people looking on one of the two islands, and it is where most of the treasure hunters have been looking for over 212 years, taking lives, and costing millions of dollars up-to-date; and they figure his new interpretation is going to put a ruin on their tourist attractions and so-forth. I’m going to ask you all on my list to forward this out so we can get this story out. He is of Cree descent, and has put a lot of his personal time towards the awareness of his findings. It would truly to me be an honor to make people aware of this story of such an admiral scenario.

http://www.firstnations.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=647

Check this out; it is definitely worth the interest.

Respectfully

Corey Desjarlais

http://oakislandmoneypitblogspotcom.blogspot.com/

http://community.discoverychannel.ca/eve/forums/a/frm/f/36810831

[Keith Ranville]

OAK ISLAND'S OBSESSION WITH LEADING RESEARCHER KEITH RANVILLE


Their Has been some strange characters running around Oak island portraying they know me?(ect.) and even making posts on the Internet saying so...this stange jealous behavior has been going around for many years with Oak Island, long before I came along, and started to make my famous discoveries. These obsessed people' I think they have to much time on there hands, for them to chase me around the WWW. to try to involve themselve in my famous discoveries, that is recieving attention around the world.
Please Be advised that these people are only trying to exploit me for there own personal gain to cash in on me at a later date..they know I am on to something, this is why people are taking great interest in me. and even the the bad element as well sorry to say. Please Wait For my documentary it will illustrate all my discoveries and more.

Sincerely

Leading Oak Island Researcher:

First Nations Cree Native & Sinclair Heritage

Keith Ranville     

I GUESS THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE IGNORING THESE CHARATERS FROM THE OAK ISLAND U.K FORUM , THEY ARE BUILDING A NASTY REPUTATION FOR THEMSELVES FOR THERE ODD BEHAVIOR AND JEALOUS MALICOUS TATICS LEAD BY THIS NUT JOB SASHA IMAN ( n4n224ccw@gmail.com ) AND HIS KNOWN ASSOCIATE DANNY HENNIGAR ( flhs@eastlink.ca ) A MEMBER OF THE OAK ISLAND TOURISM SOCIETY, THEY ARE  METICULOUSLY
AGAINST Mr. Keith Ranville's RESEARCH AND ANY OTHER RESEARCH BUT THERE OWN?
PLEASE READ BLOG-->
http://oakisalndobsessionwithkeithranville.blogspot.com/


PLEASE VISIT HERE FOR REAL INFORMATION:

http://oakislandmoneypitblogspotcom.blogspot.com/

http://kr-mendhak-com.bloghi.com/tag/http-kr-mendhak-com

http://www.oakisland.thunting.com/post/index/14/OAK-ISLAND-FEATURE-DOCUMENTARY-FILM-EXCLUSIVE

http://mendhak.com

http://www.mythandmystery.com/sir_francis_bacon_oak_island_connection.htm

[Keith Ranville]

=== Ten Questions For Keith Ranville ===

1. When you show your picture of Birch Island superimposed with the triangle of dots (similar to the stone triangle on Oak Island), have you made it clear there are no boulders or stones on Birch Island representing these positions?

2. When you claim that the "triangle" on Birch Island is man-made, have you made it clear that from aerial images, there are obvious indications of wetland features, such as streams, emergent vegetation (plants that exist in a partially wet-partially dry environment) and natural springs?

3. Have you addressed the fact that such plant growth as mentioned above exhibits extreme change over the short time interval of twenty to thirty years between when the black-and-white images were taken and when the color images were taken?

4. Have you considered the possibility that if such environmental change (like shifting shorelines, missing trees and drying wetlands) could occur in such a short timeframe (possibly as little as thirty years or so), how difficult it would be for a supposedly "man-made" feature to still be visible after three hundred and fifty years?

5. When you suggest that native tribes are responsible for the placement of the Inscribed Stone ninety feet below ground, had also dug a mile-and-a-half long tunnel between Oak Island and Birch Island, and placed underwater doors on Birch Island, have you any evidence of such below ground work done anywhere else by the same native tribes?

6. Have you explained the difficulty of excavating a mile-and-a-half long tunnel completely underwater from Oak Island to Birch Island, the difficulty of getting fresh air to the miners, and where the spoils from such an excavation would have been placed?

7. If, as you suggest, that the Money Pit (where the Inscribed Stone was found) was never meant to go below the depth where the Stone was found (around ninety feet), then what was the purpose of the concrete vault some twenty feet further down containing oak and metal pieces, evidence of which was brought up by hand augur in the 1800s?

8. If, as you suggest, the ninety foot level was as far as the excavators meant to go, then why is there evidence of man-made activity below bedrock at two hundred feet, as evidenced by video and iron brought up from Borehole 10-X, some sixty yards distance from the Money Pit?

9. If, as you suggest, there was no need to go below ninety feet, then why were there (at least) two separate self-contained drainage systems leading into the Money Pit below the hundred foot level, whose terminus were elaborate false beaches, and whose channels were lined with coconut fiber, a material that is not native to Nova Scotia?

10. When you claim that Francis Bacon was a Freemason, have you taken into account that there is no evidence of any English Masonic body before 1717, more than ninety years after Bacon passed away?

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Templarscribs really these are simple questions that he posted..I answered them as fast as I can type them...they are elementary to me... 

Simple Questions more Questions will be Logically answered in my Documentary

#1 the dots on the Birch Island triangle represents the Oak Island triangle? And the dividing line through it… to the left…the dot in the pic.. is not saying if what markers that are on Birch Island, other than the similarities triangle it’s self.    http://www.mythandmystery.com/birch_island_triangle.htm

#2 there is no proof that Birch Island is not man made, just speculated opinion …wait for documentary.

#3 yes there looks to be change in the environment in the triangle that could be due to artificial change please wait for the for more information it will explained in the documentary.
   
#4 yes check out the right angle of the triangle, there is s reseeding, and water level deepens at the beach area at the right angle of the triangle.

#5 nobody really knows who is responsible for Oak Island that is why it is a mystery?

#6 Right now I am focusing on the right angle of Birch Islands triangle. Not other tunnels. But that’s an option open to theorize.

#7 the metal piece and debris ect. Was to form the money pit in depth? It would not be logical to make the bottom foundation of the money pit out of something precious..

#8 The stuff that was found deep in the money was debris same as #7.. The iron found in a neighboring hole to the money pit was a counter weight to expel the contents out of the money pit layer by layer, then the pit was refilled with logs and dirt and a message left in the bottom layer of dirt for someone later to cipher it like me? this is why there was only junk found…in the pit. http://www.mythandmystery.com/oak_island_cross_section.gif

#9 the ninety-foot layer is the last layer of dirt and logs. And below that, is the opening shaft tunnel to the artificial beach in smiths cove, the other opening is natural. The coconut husk was some kind of mortar or the oil from the husk may have been a lubricant to mix with the clay or a waterproof sealant of some sort. The coconut fibers may be evidence there is south American connection..   

#10 I am not going into if Francis Bacon was a freemason or not back in those days secret societies were kept secret and secrets are secret to these days even to the most respected scholars, and many of his writings are missing and were thought to be under the River Wye, I think they were removed like the Money pits contents, and put into a more secure place. i.e. ? Birch Island 

Any more questions should be directed to the producer’s of my documentary, contact information is explained in the press release Oak Island Story.

Thank you,



   Sincerely
Original New Research:
Oak Island Researcher/Treasure Hunter
Keith Ranville
http://oakislandmoneypitblogspotcom.blogspot.com/
http://kr.mendhak.com
http://www.mythandmystery.com/sir_francis_bacon_oak_island_connection.htm

http://www.treasurestories.losttreasurehunting.com/2007/02/13/oak-island-treasure-mystery-watermark-cipher/
     

[Keith Ranville]

GOT WARNED


Online Archaeology

The Owner of the Archeaologist forum gave Sasha Inman a lecture about his personal attacking, and then gave him a stern warning about his shenanigans.

 (post to Sasha Inman or enforen)
Steve White is no ghost writer, he is the designer and owner of this website and has been since its inception.
If you have the information for a SERIOUS debate, post it here and let’s debate.
If you’re here for a public slanging match, then your stay will be pretty short.
http://www.online-archaeology.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2029

I guess people are getting sick off his lying crap even the Archaeologist.



http://oakislandmoneypitblogspotcom.blogspot.com/

http://kr-mendhak-com.bloghi.com/2007/01/25/the-oak-island-funny-farm-u-k.html

[Keith Ranville]

Keith Ranville's Treasure trove for Birch Island

Treasure trove license for Birch Island, Mahone Bay Nova Scotia...
Birch Island Lower right amended on map . License cost $500.00 Canadian.
Search investigations is Birch Island not Oak Island.
Keith Ranville the discoverer of the Birch Island Treasure Triangle.

Official Treasure Trove claim/Birch Island
 
Novas Scotia
Resource Corporate
Service Unit
Agriculture and Fisheries
Energy
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Natural Resources


To Mr. Ratcliffe
From Mr. Keith Ranville

Date May 5, 2006

I hereby apply for treasure trove rights for over the area, located in Mahone bay Lunenburg County

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I would like these rights for/ no (5) years in which I plan to undertake

Yours Truly

Keith Ranville,
 

 

[Keith Ranville]

"Lost King of the Maya"

" PBS Airdate: February 13, 2001
His name is Yax K'uk Mo'. His spirit haunts this valley, deep in the rainforest of Honduras. He is the legendary founder of Copan, a Maya city mysteriously abandoned over 1000 years ago. For 400 years, his dynasty of Holy Lords rules a kingdom through hallucinogenic visions, ritual warfare and human sacrifice. If the legend of Yax K'uk Mo' is true, then scientists believe he must be buried here, beneath this massive temple pyramid. One-hundred-thirty feet down and 1600 years back in time, anthropologist Robert Sharer burrows deep into the pyramid, searching for the bones of Yax K'uk Mo'. After 10 years of excavating and tunneling, following lines left from plaster floors long ago buried, Sharer uncovers an immense underground temple. On a vibrantly colored stucco panel, carved with symbols only recently decoded, is the name of the legendary first king of Copan, Yax K'uk Mo'. If the legend of Yax K'uk Mo' is true, then scientists believe he must be buried here, beneath this massive temple pyramid. One-hundred-thirty feet down and 1600 years back in time, anthropologist Robert Sharer burrows deep into the pyramid, searching for the bones of Yax K'uk Mo'. After 10 years of excavating and tunneling, following lines left from plaster floors long ago buried, Sharer uncovers an immense underground temple. On a vibrantly colored stucco panel, carved with symbols only recently decoded, is the name of the legendary first king of Copan, Yax K'uk Mo'. To resurrect the voice of the Maya, scholars must overcome one of the most tragic losses in history—that of the Maya code. For centuries, the Maya created thousands of books made of bark and covered with hieroglyphs. But in the 1500s when the Spanish conquer Central America, the Spanish priests declare the strange books to be the work of the devil and burn them. A thousand years of knowledge and the key to understanding the Maya writing go up in smoke. One of the first things that was deciphered about 100 years ago was the calendar system. And I have an example of it here from an ancient Maya book, a facsimile of one, where we have an example of a date written with five numbers using bars and dots. That's the way Maya represented numbers between one and 19. A bar was a five, and a single dot was a one. So, if we look at this column for example, right here, we have five numbers, the top one being an eight, the next down is an eleven, then after that an eight, and a seven. And then this football-shaped sign is the way the ancient Maya wrote a zero sometimes. Their knowledge of the number system helped early scholars discover that the Maya books were celestial almanacs. The Maya could chart the 365-day solar cycle, predict solar and lunar eclipses, and even track the complex orbit of Venus. Amazingly, their Venus almanac is accurate to within two hours every 500 years. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2804maya.html

The Knowledge of the south Amerindians, they were advance in engineering and experienced in working in wet land conditions. To build a structure in a small wetland area would be a small task for them? (ie.) Birch Island Triangle it's contruction may be older than the money pit. To discredit them of the construction of the Oak Island enigma would be ignorance? there books were stupidly burnt out of ignorant behavior, if some ones don't understand they discredit or burn it?
http://oakislandmoneypitblogspotcom.blogspot.com/2007/03/oak-island-research-lost-king-of-maya.html



Keith Ranville
http://kr.mendhak.com/

[Keith Ranville]

Google Earth, Satellite Maps Boost Armchair Archaeology


·   Archaeology & Paleontology News
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·   MapMachine: Satellite and Street Maps From National Geographic
As it turned out, many of the Roman villas and other sites Madry spotted online were already known to French authorities.
Though he was initially disappointed not to have made more original finds, Madry soon realized that these confirmations emphasized how quickly and easily promising archaeological sites could be identified from free satellite images.
"The cultural period of these sites [in France] matches exactly with what I thought these things were while I was sitting in my office here in Chapel Hill," he said.
Sparked by the Great War
Aerial archaeology didn't begin with satellites. The concept first took off in Europe during the First World War.
Archaeologists, historians, and other scholars found themselves aloft as part of the war effort. They soon noticed fields dotted with squares, circles, and other unnatural patterns—traces of vanished cultures.
A version of this early work still used today is microtopography: searching for very subtle changes in the Earth's surface relief that may be visible from the air under the right conditions.
Other clues can be found in vegetation.
Stone walls, foundations, and ancient roadways that lie beneath the surface often hinder the plants that grow above them. Their outlines may be seen where plants aren't growing very well, particularly in times of drought.
Wooden structures can have the opposite effect, creating deep, moist soil that boosts the crops growing over their outlines.
Such features are difficult to spot on the ground.
"It's a little bit like holding a newspaper picture right next to your eye," Madry said. "All you'll see are dots."
Now satellites are making aerial prospecting possible on a previously unimaginable scale (explore an interactive feature on satellite use in archaeology).
The technology may even open up parts of the ancient world that are not friendly to aerial observation in modern times.
"In a lot of the world—the Middle East, Greece, Turkey—there are no aerial photos allowed," Madry said. "In a lot of the world you can't just go up in an airplane and fly around or buy some accurate aerial photos."
Seeing What the Eye Cannot
But getting a bird's-eye view is only part of the story. Satellites can also see in ways that that the human eye can't.
Sarah Parcak, an archaeologist at University of Alabama at Birmingham, used satellite imagery to discover more than a hundred previously unknown sites in Egypt's Delta and Nile valleys.
She used images acquired from government agencies and private companies that employ a variety of satellite tools, including multispectral imaging.
The naked human eye can see only a tiny bit of the electromagnetic spectrum, what's known as visible light.
But satellite images can capture visible as well as infrared and microwave parts of the spectrum.
"When I explain this to students, I say that satellites allow us to have a Superman-like vision to strip away parts of the Earth and see things that are typically invisible to us, including subsurface architecture," Parcak said.
"In terms of multispectral imagery, you get some interesting and important work done in archaeology that you can't do [with conventional images]," she said. "So something like Google Earth only scratches the surface of what's possible."
William Saturno of the University of New Hampshire in Durham used multispectral imaging to uncover Maya settlements lost beneath the heavy canopy of the Guatemalan rain forest.
(Related news: "Oldest Known Maya Mural, Tomb Reveal Story of Ancient King" [December 13, 2005].)
Canopy vegetation over ancient sites displayed changes in color and reflectivity that were visible only when captured by satellite instruments in near-infrared spectrums.
"The idea that a tree growing on top of a Neolithic [5,200 to 4,500 years ago] farmer's house is going to look a little different than a tree growing next to that house … it's just amazing," said Saturno, who also conducts research at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
"The house we're talking about was just a thatched hut on a 50-centimeter-thick [20-inch-thick] masonry platform," he added. "But the trees that grow over it look different when they reflect nonvisible light."
The kind of ultra-high-resolution, multispectral images Saturno and Parcak usually use can be custom ordered from satellite sources such as GeoEye's IKONOS or DigitalGlobe's QuickBird.
For now these images, which can cost thousands of U.S. dollars each, can be prohibitively expensive.
But as free platforms like Google's continue to demonstrate their usefulness and the technology keeps improving, more state-of-the-art imaging could soon be available to all.
"More and more high-resolution imagery is going to be available, and I certainly see the prices coming down in time," Parcak said. "Much of this is going to end up being free."
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/11/061107-archaeology_2.html

[Sarah]

Hello Keith,

If the image in the previous post is supposed to be a map, can you tell me what it is a map of?  It looks like no map of any area that I have seen.

Sarah

[Keith Ranville]

Hi Sarah,

This is new discoveries there is not up to date literature but I am looking into it?


Keith, 

[Keith Ranville]

Renne Le-Chateau
Written in stone, of the secret of Coumesourde

The legendary Coumesourde Stone, now lost, is believed to have concealed a secret? of great importance to the mystery of Rennes-le-Château's, Lost Treasure.



New Research Discovery
This diagram is a partial of triangles, the upper and lower crosses, are center points of four triangles the same as the visible triangle. The V’s at each end of the crosses represents one of four triangles; Line (A) is center means there is triangle (B, C, D, E) this is a simple math equation of pi square or a diagram of a inverted 1/4 pyramid. 
Diagram is in article
http://www.rlcresearch.com/mainframe.articles.html


New Oak Island Research: New Discovery

First Nations and Sinclair Heritage


Keith Ranville

http://kr-mendhak-com.bloghi.com/2007/04/05/written-stone-ciphered-of-the-secret-of-coumesourde.html

http://www.canadaka.net/modules.php?name=Blogs&file=weblog&w=130

http://www.oakisland.thunting.com/index.php

http://oakislandmoneypitblogspotcom.blogspot.com/index.html

[Mia Knight]

You ever see this, Keith?  It's about the Sinclair family history and their voyage to America, written by the Sinclairs:

Jarl Henry Sinclair (c.1345 - c.1400)
One ancestor in particular has recently incented a number of organizations and publications. Henry Sinclair was the Baron of Roslin near Edinburgh. We are also told he became Lord Chief Justice of Scotland and Admiral of the Seas. Burke's Peerage and Gentry agrees that he was Baron of Roslin, Earl of Orkney, and Lord of Shetland, ``who on 2 August 1379, was formally invested by Haakon, King of Norway, as Jarl of the Orkneys, ranked next to the Roy House before all the Scandinavian nobility. As Admiral he discovered Greenland, lived in much state at Roslin, and was k in battle in Orkney 1404.'' Of course Burke's is wrong in saying he discovered Greenland, since as a Norse Jarl, Henry would have known that Norway already claimed Greenland, since 1261. Greenland had been discovered by Gunnbjorn in 983 and settled by Erik the Red ca. 985.
We are told that Henry was descended from Rogenvald the Mighty, first Earl of Orkney, on both sides of his family. We are told that he was known as ``Henry the Holy'' because he had made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Some say he even fought in a Crusade, like his ancestors before him. Unfortunately, I know of no solid sources for any of these three things.

According to Fredrick J. Pohl, by inheritance from Henry's mother and confirmation of the King of   Norway Henry became the first Sinclair Earl of Orkney; the graphic at the top of the page is his coat of arms as Earl of Orkney. This made him the premier Jarl of Norway and the crowner of its king. (He has also been alleged to be the Duke of Oldenburg in Denmark, although no sources seem available for such a claim.) He had the right to various royal privileges, including wearing a crown. He held Orkney from the King of Norway, yet was also a leading Scottish noble. This dual loyalty and the geographical position of his jarldom of Orkney with its 200 islands and 5,000 square miles on the sea lanes between the two countries made him in effect all but an independent king. The title of Prince has been alleged for him, although it is not clear that he ever used it or that it was applied to him in his lifetime.

  Again according to Fredrick J. Pohl, not content with successfully bringing Orkney, Shetland, and perhaps Faroe under his control, Henry built a fleet of ships larger than the navy of Norway. He gained adherents from the princely Zeno family of Venice, who were great sailors and who made available to him the new invention of cannon. He and the Sinclair family have often been associated with the Knights Templar, who were also great sailors.

  According to Pete Cummings and others, soon Henry used many of his ships and his Italian expert to sail to Nova Scotia in 1398 and Massachusetts in 1399. He may even have gone to Rhode Island, where evidence suggests that he built Newport Tower.

 His grandson William, first Sinclair Earl of Caithness, immortalized that voyage (among many other things) in stone at Rosslyn Chapel, near Edinburgh.  The Prince Henry Sinclair Society of North America celebrates that voyage, and built a monument to it in Nova Scotia.
  The Clan Sinclair Society of Nova Scotia organized various celebratory events and built a memorial, whose inauguration was attended by the current Earl of Caithness, who is a descendant of Jarl Henry and Chief of Clan Sinclair.

The late Pete Cummings published a a newsletter about the 600th anniversary celebrations.
 A Henry FAQ.
A biography as the Famous Scot on the Gathering of the Clans website for the first week of January 2000.
A chronology of his life and times.
A brief summary of his voyages.
The search for the Holy Grail in Nova Scotia.
A Masonic view.
Numerous books about Henry.
 



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The Forces Which Shaped Our Past
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 08:46:45 +0100
From: Niven Sinclair <niven@niven.co.uk>

We have to understand the religious, political and economic forces which shaped our past and, more paticularly, the great family dynasties which were being forged through marriage alliances No-one, for example, can suppose that Knut needed to marry Emma (St Clair) who was the relict of Ethelred. He could have had any nubile female but, then, that nubile female would not have cemented racial or territorial relationships.
Marriage was not the lovey-dovey partnership we expect (but seldom get) today.

Henry Sinclair could have taught Queen Victoria a lesson or two. His 13 children were married into all the leading Scottish families.

When I was studying our family history, I reached a point when I could almost predict who was going to marry whom. Just as we returned to root stock with our Aberdeen Angus cattle, the Sinclairs did this every third generation. Many marriages were annulled on the grounds of consanganuity but were 'restored' after paying the Church money - an example of this can be fond with Earl William Sinclair who, like his father Heny II, married a Douglas. The Sinclairs and the Stewarts were inextricably interwoven - more is the pity because it was our adherence to the Stewart cause and the Catholic religion (when Protestantism was sweeping Northern Europe) which led to our downfall.

As I have written elsewhere, Bonnie Prince Charlie actually travelled under the name of Sinclair and used the Sinclair seal until he was of age.
 I'll post some material to you today. I am deeply impressed by the interest which is being shown in the Sinclair pages. It augurs well for the Clan and Brad's stint as President. We must use the internet to disseminate information and to stimulate a lively interest in family research. We must embrace the young because anything we might achieve in our own lifetimes is as naught unless we can pass on our ideals to the younger generation.
As I am wont to say: "We are nothing without our roots" and who else have more enduring roots than ourselves? If I may quote from the St Clairs of the Isles by Roland St Clair: ``No family in Europe beneath the rank of Royalty boasts a higher antiquity, a nobler illustration or a more romantic interest than that of St Clair.''

Let us be worthy of our lineage. Let us be worthy of our heritage. True, it can no longer be measured in vast acres or in gold and jewels but it can be measured in something which is much more enduring: Courage, loyalty, integrity, compassion, example and, dare I say it, humility because no man can be truly great without a due measure of humility. Prince Henry had this.

And who can look at the wonders of Nature without being humble? Earl William Sinclair brought Nature into his Chapel at Rosslyn because he believed that God and Nature was ONE. He believed that there had been far too much talk about the Father on high and far too little concern about Mother Earth. He believed that every leaf was a word of God. He understood the necessary balance between Man's physical and spiritual needs.

Regards,
Niven
 

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http://sinclair2.quarterman.org/who/henry.html

[Keith Ranville]

Hi Mia

Thanks for the information, I have interest in the Sinclair Clan? Thank you this is amazing information..

Keith,



http://kr-mendhak-com.bloghi.com/2007/04/05/written-stone-ciphered-of-the-secret-of-coumesourde.html

http://www.canadaka.net/modules.php?name=Blogs&file=weblog&w=130

http://www.oakisland.thunting.com/index.php

http://oakislandmoneypitblogspotcom.blogspot.com/index.html
 

[Mia Knight]

You're welcome, Keith!  Are you related to them?

[Keith Ranville]

Hi Mia                                                       April 7, 2007

Well my mother's, maiden is name is Sinclair. I have my Father's name Ranville...
My mother's grandfather Albert Sinclair was a linguist of seven languages and worked in the misionaries, in northern Manitoba, Canada.

Keith,

Good Easter to you, and to others here.