Greetings!

[ScandiScot]

Hi everyone!

I think I'm going to like it here. I just got my account approved this morning after I stumbled upon this forum while searching for kilt information online. The kilt info is primarily for my dear boyfriend--who currently owns exactly ZERO kilts but who is also half Scottish (his mother was a Nisbet--sadly, she passed away several years ago) and is COMMITTED to wearing a kilt for our eventual wedding and then expanding it to more everyday wear. Since I tend to be the power user when it comes to the Internet, I figured I'd better join and get the skinny on all things kilt-related.

As for myself, I can also claim Scottish ancestry through my great-grandmother who was a Buchan. One of my dad's cousins has done some impressive genealogical research that's gone back to my five-times great-grandfather who was born in Edinburgh in the 1760s; just a generation after Culloden. More recent Buchan relatives hailed from Perth, although I believe the traditional Buchan stomping grounds are in the Aberdeenshire region. HOWEVER, I'm also a fifth-generation Minnesotan, which means that I've got a lot of Scandinavian ancestry as well--Norwegian, Swedish AND Finnish to be exact. Hence my screen name.

I lived in Chicago for a decade but moved to north central Iowa last summer for a great job that also put me closer to family. I've been fortunate enough to have traveled to Scotland a couple of times and immediately felt a connection that I truly wasn't expecting. I will probably be more of a "lurker" and just absorb the knowledge of previous posts, so let me take this opportunity to say "thanks!" to all of you who've contributed to such a large, consolidated body of kilt knowledge!

Shari (aka ScandiScot)