Wearing a kilt is not a "Journey", with "stages"

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I guess if you want to consider kilt-wearing a journey, mine began a few years ago when I was working on the genealogy of my family. My mother's grandfather was always considered to be Irish, because his father and mother came to the US from Northern Ireland. Further research indicated the name Morehead (or Moorehead) came from the Scottish Muirhead, and that neither Muirhead nor the Morehead derivative was a native Irish name.

Then I came across the Muirhead Clan Society, which while not a clan in the true sense, and created in modern times, did offer some research going back to a region of Lowland Scotland between Glasgow and Edinburgh (Lanarkshire). I've found no proof yet, but I suspect a distant ancestor was involved with the resettlement of Lowland Scots to Northern Ireland under James I of England.

Anyway, I was pleased to discover there was an actual formal kilt outfit which came to America with a family named Muirhead in the 1850's; the tartan, while previously unregistered, has been officially registered as a Muirhead regional or family tartan through application by the Muirhead Society. Imagine my surprise to find that same outfit residing only about an hour and half from me, at the Scottish Tartans Museum in Franklin, NC.

Where my journey will end is anybody's guess.