Another reason why I love genealogy...

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

Schultz and Todd,

Thanks! I will start at the library. I have some information already, and one of my uncles has traced the roots back to Dundee and Montrose in Angus (did I say that right?), Scotland. His information if mainly from a family bible and I don't know if he did the due diligence to verify through SS, census, immigration records, etc..

Then on the other side, I have some good details going back 2-3 generations, but am still working on that.

And on my other side, there is basically my father's info about his parents and grandparents, and a little about the great-grandparents, but I do have some SSN numbers.

And on the final side, my wife's heritage, her father has gathered some good current info, but not much going back, other than names and some dates.

This is a fascinating subject.

[Schultz]

Fascinating, indeed!

The real funny thing is that before I started poking around, very little was known about my mother's side before, say, her grandparents.

Now I have so much more documentation on her side than I ever dreamed. One thing I will suggest is to not limit your research to electronic resources, but pick up books relating to the area of the family group you are researching. It's amazing what you can find in, say, an old, forgotten book about the centennial of a little town in western Maryland about your family.

Good luck!

[macwilkin]

I have some information already, and one of my uncles has traced the roots back to Dundee and Montrose in Angus (did I say that right?), Scotland.

Now you've found a few more tartans to wear:

www.district-tartans.com/angus.htm

www.district-tartans.com/dundee.htm

Cheers,

Todd

[Streetcar]

Ain't no better reason to buy a kilt than to honor an ancestor :-D ....
And, it does feel good to connect with those that came before and passed on the genes that make me who I am. Without any of them, I don't exist.

Ron

My uncle did some research on our line some time ago. I found out through perusing his notes that I had a highland ancestor named John Reynolds back in the late 1600's. I did a little of my own research and found there was a Reynolds sept under MacDonald of Clanranald.
Now I realize it's a coin toss as to whether or not this particular ancestor was part of that clan or not, but it was enough to spark me into learning more about that clan, and the clan system in general.
So I have John Reynolds to thank for feeding my interest in Scottish history, and I think a MacDonald of Clanranald kilt would be a fine way to memorialize that connection.

[millar]

Would that be a Merkin?

MrBill

Funniest line of the day!!Thanks. :grin:

[Big Paul]

Another good scource is Genforum..

[Alan H]

Geneology.com
Ancestry.com

....brace yourself for the onslaught of spam....

[michael steinrok]

Hey Chasem,
You gonna wear Lady Godiva's tartan? And what sporran would go with it?

I think that would be one of those merkin thingy sporrans Sorry couldn't help myself

[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