Another reason why I love genealogy...

[Cawdorian]

There is a lot of information on www.rootsweb.com. There is a lot of bogus genealogical information out there on the net, most of it comes from people posting the same incorrect information over and over again. Always look at the cited sources to determine the reliability of the information.

There are also some very good family genealogical information websites out there, you can find them by googleing the family name along with "family tree" or "genealogy". I found a lot of good information, pictures, maps and stories by using this method.

[SoCalKilt]

Yea it's funny. I few years ago I went crazy trying to trace my last name back as far as I could (Heffner) because my dad was pretty proud of his German/Austrian Heritage. I didn't go down any other lines because it was meant as a birthday present for him.

So I decide I'm going to make and wear a kilt to a valentines dinner/dance. Went pretty well and I wore it to church the next day as well. Got a few questions asking if I was Scottish or Irish and I said I didn't really know. I spent the last couple of days going down his mothers side, and my own mothers parents. My paternal grandmothers name was Rice which is prominately Irish. My maternal grandmothers name is Mulkey, Start asking her questions and she says oh yea, we've been traced back to Scottland... Her married name (my mothers maiden) is Fair which has both Scottish and Irish roots...

All in all, I guess I'm "entitled" to wear a kilt after all...

-mike

[auld argonian]

I just caught up with that article that was in Newsweek an issue or two ago that talked about the unreal situations that genetic testing is causing. Stuff like finding out that you share absolutely no genetic material with your grandfather...finding out that even though your name is O'Connor you are most closely genetically linked to Mongolian yak herders...stuff like that. Louis Henry Gates, the eminent African American scholar, found out that he is, in fact, more than 50 percent Western European by genetic testing.

I've always looked at the world with the attitude that everybody is ultimately related to everyone else and this seems to bear it out.

Thus...a whole lot more people who may have previously thought that they had no basis for wearing the kilt now may, in fact, have more of a basis than they thought.

Time to step up production, you kiltmakers!

Best

AA

[GlassMan]

...finding out that even though your name is O'Connor you are most closely genetically linked to Mongolian yak herders...stuff like that.

Just as long as they don't try to tell you that you are most closely genetically linked to a Mongolian Yak!