Starting them young

[Brandane]

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.

[ForresterModern]

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.

[wvpiper]

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

Father's day is approaching, why not buy him one! Take the pic, if he doesn't like it, you can re-sell it and get some money back. The money lost will be worth the price of getting the picture.

[ForresterModern]

Father's day is approaching, why not buy him one! Take the pic, if he doesn't like it, you can re-sell it and get some money back. The money lost will be worth the price of getting the picture.

I tried to warm him up to the idea by giving him a flat cap in Forrester Modern tartan, our family cloth, and initially he liked it but now says he has never worn it and does not see much likelihood of ever wearing it. Just not into the Scots heritage thing, although he did enjoy watching me and hearing about tracing our roots back to the founding fathers of Virginia, and then to the original paternal Forrester immigrant in our lineage.

Really not worth pushing the kilt thing. We found an old abandoned family cemetary on a hilltop not too far from our family farm and right across the dirt road from where my grandfather was born, where my great-great and great-great-great grandfathers are buried, and plan on making a pilgrimmage there this summer to re-discover the headstones so we can take a picture of my son, me , my father and the two distant grandfathers making it a multigenerational photo. The only ones in the lineage missing would be my grandfather and great grandfather (both now dead and buried elsewhere). As long as the landscape is not too overgrown I plan on going kilted, and taking my son's kilt along for the photo too. It is one thing to trace one's roots on paper, and another to actually go there and see where that history took place.