Census poll: What is your cultural / historical connection to the kilt?

[DavidB80911]

Actually, recent findings suggest that we may all be descended from Neanderthals.

Thats where the Green Bay Packers have gotten their defensive line and linebackers from!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[thescot]

My great-great grandfather was a Robertson and a proud Scotch-Irishman. (We all know the history and hornery nature of the Scotch Irish!) I think that the German part of me is less desirable than the Scottish part. Ha.

Killmans come from both Germany and Aberdeen, so I'll go with Aberdeen. I like the Scots better than I like the Huns. Ha.













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[Black Watch]

I like the Scots better than I like the Huns. Ha.

So do I

Mike

[McClef]

Two posts have been temporarily removed due to one being reported and the other had already quoted it.

We hope that they can be restored in an amended state asap.

Trefor for the Moderators

[1oldsarge]

Maternal side is Duncan, which I traced back to 1612 to St. Ninians, Stirlingshire, Scotland.
Paternal side is English.

[O'Searcaigh]

Previously it has been stated quite firmly that the Neanderthals left no descendants.

That's what I love about science; it frequently disproves things that have been previously believed and "stated quite firmly" to be true, including earlier scientific theories [e.g., Aristotelian, Newtonian, relativistic, and quantum physics; Aristotelian, Copernican, Kantian, Hole, Hubble cosmology; humoral, microbiological, genetic theories of disease; phylogenic, evolutionary, genetic biology, etc, etc, etc ...], Genealogy is a matter of history and culture, genetics a matter of science. Before genetics, no "father" could be absolutely certain if his "children" were his though, as a previous poster has noted, a mother could be pretty sure who hers were. When it comes to questions of fact, it's all a matter of the kind of best evidence available. Values, like preferring to wear kilts, honoring Scottish or Celtic culture, etc. are a whole nother matter which (as a matter of fact) I think (as a value) is great because it allows, as this survey shows, peoples of all kinds to join together despite their varied "heritage" in promoting and taking responsibility for something they value in common -- an apparently uniquely human trait!!!
Viva la kilt!

[Mike_Oettle]

Clearly, Warrior, you are proud of your MacLeod heritage. But you could also wear the Cherokee tartan: http://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tar...s.aspx?ref=627
Regards,
Mike

[BoldHighlander]

Clearly, Warrior, you are proud of your MacLeod heritage. But you could also wear the Cherokee tartan: http://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tar...s.aspx?ref=627
Regards,
Mike

Thank you for posting this Mike!
I had heard of but never seen it. We always knew about the Cherokee in my family (my paternal grandmother Scobee was approx 1/4 blood), but this past summer my son discovered thru genealogy research that we are direct descendants of the Vann chiefs and a lengendary warrior /stickball player named Spring Frog (Tooan Tuh). The Vann's could trace part of their ancestry to Scotland by the way (it's said they were descended from Robert the Bruce).
At anyrate, my older son is really into his Cherokee heritage, as opposed to his Scottish heritage, but this might be just the thing to hook him!

[Tobus]

I am the eighth in a direct paternal line back to Neil MacLeod, born on the Isle of Skye, who emigrated with his entire family and several other related families to South Carolina in 1775. After "clan MacDonald's insurrection" and Moore's Creek the situation in the carolinas became untenable for the loyalists and my bunch of highlanders fled west to Alabama. Once there they settled to the west of Clarkesville, which would later become Grove Hill, along with many other highland families including Calhouns, Mathews, McVays, Pughs, Robinsons, Megginsons, Creaghs and Harrisons. This area became known unoficially as little Scotland due to the number of gealic speakers, as late as the war between the states.

Fascinating! It's awesome that you know that much of your family history. Mine is actually very similar. My Kilpatricks came to the colonies about 60 years earlier than your MacLeods, and they settled in South Carolina (and owned huge tracts of land, known then as the Coneross Plantation). My branch eventually resettled near what is known today as Carrollton, Alabama. That's only about 120 miles from your folks.

Seems that the South Carolina - Alabama move was pretty common amongst those of Scots persuasion.

[warrior]

Fascinating! It's awesome that you know that much of your family history. Mine is actually very similar. My Kilpatricks came to the colonies about 60 years earlier than your MacLeods, and they settled in South Carolina (and owned huge tracts of land, known then as the Coneross Plantation). My branch eventually resettled near what is known today as Carrollton, Alabama. That's only about 120 miles from your folks.

Seems that the South Carolina - Alabama move was pretty common amongst those of Scots persuasion.

It certainly was, ever see the state flag of Alabama? A red St Andrew's Cross on a white field. The Scots influence runs deep, probably deeper than any other. Why it even influenced the nation. Do you remember our "Little Judge" from Clio, AL? Alabama's only four term governor George Wallace.