You learn something new every day...

[Clockwork John]

While I was visiting with my grandparents, we talked about kilts and heritage and such. It turns out that they somehow neglected to mention (until now) that my grandfather is first generation American born! His mother was born in Canada, and her mother was born in Wales! Her father was the veterenarian on a large estate, and she was educated on the estate with the Laird's children!

Apparently I have cousins in Wales, and some of my relatives have been back to visit them and they stayed on the estate where my great, great, great-grandfather worked and my great, great-grandmother grew up!

I think Wales just jumped to the top of my list of places to visit, and a Welsh cilt just jumped to the no. 2 spot on my wish list, just behind the Campbell weathered in Harris Tweed I plan to order from Matt Newsome soon!

[Sionnachdubh]

Thats family history for you. I just learned my great grandfather( until he was thrown off his land by the lady Sutherland) was living on the the same land his ancestors lived on since the early 1500's!

You do learn something new everday.
Congradulations on your find old boy!

[sydnie7]

Wales is beautiful, especially the northwestern "wild" part (Snowden and parts north). If you get there, don't miss:

Scenic railway from Porthmadog to Blaenau Ffestiniog and back

Bronze Age copper mines on Great Orme Head, north of Llandudno

http://www.walesdirectory.co.uk./coppermine.htm

Many, many other great things to see and do, but those are tops on my list.

[My maternal line is heavily Welsh and Irish while paternal carries back to MacDonald and MacDaniel.]

[cessna152towser]

So much easier to trace one's ancestry now that we have the internet - and as we trace further back we find we are entitled to wear even more tartans - ancestry research and the desire to collect kilts of one's ancestral families and the desire to visit the places where they lived can become a costly project.