My kin came from Scotland around 1640 and settled in Massachussetts for awhile, then some moved to Maine. A few years before the Civil War my GGGrandfather settled in Wisconsin and helped found the Town of Maine.When he was in his 60s he homesteaded in the Dakotas. Some of the family have wound up in Washington and Oregon, others are still on the East Coast and some are still in Wisconsin. One thing about the Scots and Irish, they tend to be fiddlefooted folks.