Has this ever happend to you?

[Tobus]

Really the only thing that got me mad was him/her taking the time to look me up on the internet.

Sadly, in this day and age, there are some real nutjobs out there who will not only look people up, but find them in real life and cause harm. As retribution over a silly internet argument. This is why I think it's a bad idea to give out personal info on a public internet forum. I know some folks here think it's bad manners to use a generic username, but I've seen some real horror stories of people who freely gave out their real names (or phone numbers, physical addresses, etc.) on the internet. Ya gotta be careful out there!

[JelicoCat]

I believe the guy proves the old saying:

It is better to remain silent and risk being thuoght a fool than to open your mouth and prove it.

[Sammac]

I have heard that you never argue with a fool just in case people can't tell the difference.

[piperdbh]

I would bet the second fellow was Dr. Phil Smith, who designed an Ayr tartan.

T.

If so, it was a real privilege. I had that experience a couple of years ago at Grandfather Mountain. Dr. Smith was very interesting, and I bought all three of his tartan books as a result!

You might want to delete and/or block any future email from this ancestry critic. He might send you a virus just to see if your firewall is good enough for him.

[ccga3359]

Well that proves it Stewart/Stuart is not a Scottish name. Campbell neither. But MacHine is.

[Erikm]

Thats what I told the person my mothers last name was Gourlay it's also scottish I think they still make Golf balls in Scotland today? My G-grandmother was a Campbell,and my grandmother Mitchell is among the top 20 Scottish surnames.

Maybe I should have told them I was kin to Conner Macleod from Highlander, then maybe I would be worthy lol

Speaking of the Middleton Tartan, it's about time to wear it for Christmas

[dfmacliam]

Well Its good to see you have handled it well... and not take the babbling of a fool to heart.. I look at my family lineage and see my Scot ties and think with names like Wilson and Claghorn, he might find those names very un Scot like..lol or Farmer being very un Irish Lol

[Lachlan09]

It reminds me of when I was a boy. I lived in the Lowlands, near Edinburgh, and none of them could get the idea of my Christian name, Lachlan. They kept saying I had an Irish name which rattled my cage no end. No disrespect to Ireland, but my name has a perfectly good Highland pedigree. All my life people have mis-spelt and mis-pronounced my name, so that nowadays it’s like water off a duck’s back. The most common mis-pronounciation is Locklin and sometimes Lackland but various ones have been used. Funny enough, I had less problem in London with English people than I had in Edinburgh with fellow Scots ! But then again, it’s sometimes said by the rest of Scotland that Edinburgh is more English than Scottish.

[haxtonhouse]

Lets hope James Stewart or William Wallace never hear such nonsense!

[CDNSushi]

Just like O'Bama is Irish, right?