Where Aren't We Yet??

[Riverkilt]

I know a lot of folks on the forum don't include their geographic location on their profile.

I know a lot of folks on the forum aren't represented on the kilt map.

But I do know we have a lot of kilties in a lot of areas of the planet.

What I'm wondering is, how do we figure out where we're NOT represented yet?

And once we know where we're not, then maybe we can search for Scottish/Celtic related activities in those areas and email them about this forum and become more widely represented about the planet.

So, like I'll take a wild guess and figure we don't have any forum members from the Scots community of Argentina yet??

Others?

Ron

Okay Rabble, I just googled and there is an active St. Andrews Society of the River Plate and they have a pipe band.

http://www.sasrp.netfirms.com/

See how easy. Anyone from Argentina a member of this Rabble??

Off to email them and who knows.

[McMurdo]

Anyone from Nepal, or perhaps Belize?

[Riverkilt]

Hey, this is fun! Thought, why not try Bolivia next and theres a La Paz Scottish Dance Club...with the high altitude record for Scottish Dancing.

Here's a warm article about it from five years ago http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1891707.stm

And here's a web page with info on South American Scottish groups with email contacts!

http://www.scottishdance.net/groups/...l#LaPazBolivia

Off to spread the word.

Others??

Ron

[muirkirkca]

Certainly support the idea as we get a good idea of the forums dispora and whether there are numbers in an area to arrange informal events. Doesn't compromise one's anonymity.

[pipesndrumsnun]

Uganda or Nigeria?

[Riverkilt]

Okay, one more...I think we have at least one Brazilian member of the forum, but not sure he was in Brazil now...age wreaks havoc with the mind.

Anyhow there is a St. Andrew's Society in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

http://www.standrewrio.com.br/

emailed them.

So...what about African countries...? Last King of Scotland and all, eh what/

Ron

[Riverkilt]

Well McMurdo, there's hope for Belize, but I can't find anything current yet.

Did find this; Nearly all Belize History books deal from the time of Scottish pirate presence at the Belize River mouth, 350 years ago, to present day.

That'll warm Pour1Malt's heart...guess the Scottish pirates hung out there to ambush Spanish galleons.

Ron
Who's late little brother's first wife was a Mayan beauty from Belize

[Tattoo Bradley]

UHHUMM!

Pssssst.

If we all sign up on the map (link in my signature) we'd have a better idea of where we all are.

[Riverkilt]

So, tried to use the edit feature, and even without a pic it just went in circles forever and ever and ever...maybe because of a link. Anyway, so there's a book out on Scots in Latin America that can put us on the trail of lost brothers we still need to find and kilt.

http://www.genealogical.com/products...rica/9785.html

And the blurb from it says; Although Scots are known to have ventured to Latin America as early as 1540 (mostly as soldiers of fortune), emigration from Scotland to Latin America only began in earnest after Spanish power in the western hemisphere began to wane. Following the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, demobilized soldiers and sailors, Scots among them, flocked to aid the Latin American revolutionaries in their fight for liberty from Spain. Spain's ouster removed restrictions on immigration, with the result that Scottish passengers and investors flocked to the area. As early as 1825, for example, the Norval, the Symetry, and the Harmony set sail for Argentina with Scottish bricklayers, implement makers, blacksmiths, farmers, and other skilled tradesmen.
David Dobson's latest volume on Scottish emigration is the first work to enumerate the members of this 19th-century exodus. Dobson's findings are based on primary sources in Scotland, especially documents in archives, newspapers, and cemetery transcriptions. The settlers, with annotations, are listed in alphabetical order by surname. While there is considerable variance from description to description, each entry identifies the passenger by country (and sometimes city) of origin, a date when the immigrant was known to have resided in Latin America, and the source of the information. The majority of the entries also provide one or more of the following pieces of information: occupation, age, parent(s)' name(s), place of birth in Scotland, and date of arrival in Latin America. Researchers will be interested to learn that 19th-century Scotsmen turned up in a number of Latin American countries, including Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, British Guiana, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. In identifying more than 1,500 Scots immigrants to Latin America, Mr. Dobson's latest book does not purport to be the definitive work on its subject; nonetheless, it unquestionably breaks new ground for students of immigration and Scottish genealogy.



See, like I keep saying, Scots were everywhere...folks who think they don't have any Scottish ancestry just need to flesh out their family trees a little bit more. Bound to be a Scotsman luring on a branch or two...just has to be...

How do you say in Latin, "We Traveled, and We Were Prolific" ??

Ron

[Riverkilt]

Okay, that's it for me...just sent emails to nine Scottish Dance clubs in South Africa...apparently the only contacts on the African continent for things Scottish. Maybe a few will check out the forum.

Ron