Excellent news, Ron. Yes there are surprises to be found when we start researching our ancestry. My wife's maiden name is McConnell and I believe they once ran with the MacDonalds. Earliest confirmed direct ancestor is her four great grandfather Quintin McConnel who was a weaver in Dailly, Ayrshire in 1751. There was a Quintin McConnel baptised in Dailly in 1721 but I haven't yet been able to confirm it was the same one so haven't been able to go back further. The spelling changed from McConnel to McConnell during the 1850's. Curiously another of her lines is McIlmorrow who for some reason changed their name to McMurray in the late 1700's.
The only Anderson family in our tree so far is a rather tenuous link. Ann's granny Hay had a cousin James Hay who was employed in the building of the Forth Rail Bridge. During this time he lived in lodgings in Dunfermline, where he met and married a Jane Anderson, daughter of Charles Anderson a tailor. Amazingly the Anderson family lived just a few doors away along the same street in Dunfermline where my great-grandmother Maggie McLeod was born and brought up.