Quote Originally Posted by Brandane View Post
Guys as the advice seems to be mostly positive I will pass this on to my son and his wife who are planning to kit him out. Paul and Forrester thanks for supplying advice and great pics of the kids. It will be nice to have 3 generations of klilties on show. Many thanks to all. Rob.
You are most welcome.

I keep trying to get my dad to just put on one of my kilts for a picture with he, me, and my son Carter for the three generational look, but my dad is reluctant, besides being about 7 inches shorter than me (so we would have to Urkle him a bit too to get one of my kilts to fit, although we do share the same waist size). Maybe when my newest kilt, a Forrester Hunting tank, comes in in the next month or so we can try it again. My dad has interest in our geneology as far as the family tracing is concerned but not so much as the national heritage is concerned, probably because most Scots wehn they landed in the US gave up a lot of their old scots ways to make a new life for themselves here in the great new world, and did not necessarily look backwards with as much fondness of the home country as some other immigrants, due to poverty, famine, and the clearances being the reasons for leaving. We have traced our family patronage line back to around 1700 to the first Forrester in our line to enter the US, but have had little success going back across the pond as yet to make that more vital scottish connection, which might change his mind a bit, I think.