Tartan Day April 6th

[mac2]

Happy Tartan Day America. http://www.tartanday.org/ May you have a wee bit of happiness today.

[Hepburn]

1. Here is my Scottie's tartan...

So very glad you said TARTAN and not PLAID! :hi:

[Sal Minella]

2. Is your Scottie a Douglass?

[Hepburn]

5. She is a "McGee" and they use the "McKay" tartan.

[Sal Minella]

10. Ah! Differences are subtle in tartan patterns. And my eye is no longer what it was.

[mac2]

18. Yes...there is modern, ancient, ceremonial, hunting, weathered.

etc. of the same clan plaid.

[Sal Minella]

20. Not to mention "half-remembered."

[mac2]

23. It's almost like the Brits and elite have eliminated many of

the Scots over the years. We are a minority now.

[mac2]

4. I love plaid too.

Give your Scottie dog a treat today.

[Hepburn]

7. You got that one!

She is a doll of a wee lass and the Scottiest of all Scotties! Whe totally has that Scottie Terrier-tude down pat! A very proud personage!

Ms. Maggie thanks you for reminding me to get out her beef jerky! :hi:

[gort]

27. Here are my clan's "colors"

Sgurr Uaran!

[Squatch]

3. My tartan

My grandfather was an RAF pilot who was killed in 1941. He died in Prestwick, Scotland (Ayrshire)

[Cirque du So-What]

6. My tartans

Fraser


Grant

My surname doesn't have its own tartan, but it's associated with both the clans Fraser and Grant.

[DemoTex]

8. My clan's tartan:

[applegrove]

12. That is really pretty.

[DemoTex]

14. That's a weathered MacLean

Modern

[mac2]

15. Notice CSPAN and the media have na da thing on about it?

At least not the national news and even here in the MW local news. There are parades. Are they too anti-founders to celebrate?

[applegrove]

19. Hey I'm a Maclean! Part of me.

[spartan61]

9. My grandparents were from Scotland. (Fife County)

Several years ago I took my dad to Scotland to visit his cousins and see the house where his father grew up. We had a wonderful week sightseeing, even went to the Highlands where we picked heather, played golf at St. Andrews, saw many castles, rode a double decker bus, ate lots of fish from the North Sea, looked for the Loch Ness monster etc. My dad had a smile on his face the whole week. When my dad died two years ago, we had a piper who played at the funeral. I'm sure my dad was looking down from Heaven with a big smile on his face.

[CTyankee]

11. Campbell here. Anybody got a pic of that tartan? n/t

[mac2]

17. Black Watch Plaid

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_Campbell#Tartans

Black Watch plaid is one of the most popular today. My ancestors the MacDonalds fought yours. Their clan leader was on the Isle of Skye and at one time was the most powerful. The British and religion divided the clans against one another.

When our founding fathers, who were mostly of Scottish ancestory, came to the New World...America they wanted to have a different society than old fighting Europe.

If The clans had known about the rich oil reserves in the North Sea area there would have been more bloody battles for it over the years.

Scotland after 300 years finally has it's own Parliament. Prime Minister Brown is the first Scottish Prime Minister. There is still talk of separation from Britain.

Now the EU has taken over many of the British "protectorships" (Wales, Scotland, and Ireland). Who knows what will happen in the future? There are power grabs plaguing the world Empires once again. I worry about the huge trade unions (of six or seven unions) fighting one another in the future for resources, land, wealth, power, etc...just the same old things. The elite few always plot to get rich on the poor. It's like they deserve it more than anyone else.

[CTyankee]

21. My forebear, Alexander Campbell, came to America in the early 1790s.

I am told that was a period of the "clearances." Can you tell me something about them? Why were Scots expelled, or needed to expel themselves, from their homelands? I know the British did it but I don't quite understand the rationale...

[mac2]

22. The British populated America, Canada, Australia, and

New Zealand with their prisoners and poor to settle it. They put the Scottish squatters off the land when the elite complained. The royals took the land for themselves. It was a huge land grab for Empire Building.

Most the Scottish settled in the Carolinas. Today only 3% of the population of North Carolina are Scottish. Many were sent to die in the wars, die of poverty, move to other areas, inter-marriage, etc.

After 911, I read an article about the Scot-Irish being good fighters and patriots in the Carolinas. Sign up boys...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Clearances

[CTyankee]

24. Interesting. Altho my family lore is about Alexander coming to Georgia, it seems

that he must have come originally to North Carolina, from what I read. However, that side of my family did live in Georgia until their farm was taken over by Sherman's army in the Civil War. They left and went to Texas and many family descendants are still there (not me, of course).

[mac2]

28. There werre a lot of Scots in Texas.

Maybe not now in the whole percentage of S. Americans today.

[applegrove]

13. Many of my ancestors were from Perthshire. Too many clans to name.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

16. Clan Kerr Tartan

[UTUSN]

25. Delete (my post) at will:

[guitar man]

26. here's mine

:hi:

[mac2]

29. Pretty plaid

[H2O Man]

30. I always liked Ken Buchanan: