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Kevin

Hello

My name's Kevin and I live in the U.S. but I've got some Scottish ancestry.  Hoping to make a trip someday.  Anyways, politics and economics are my main interests so hopefully we'll have some good discussions.
Reluctant Hero

Hi Kevin, welcome to the forums.

If you are interested in politics and economics, then there is certainly plenty to talk about here!

Hope you enjoy it.
azzuri

Hi Kevin, welcome to the forums. Very Happy
Stevie

Hi Kevin, glad you're here.

Speak to you soon.
Kevin

Thanks for the warm welcomes. Smile
Stevie

Kevin, never asked you about your Scottish ancestry.

What Scottish blood have you laddie?
Kevin

Stevie wrote:
Kevin, never asked you about your Scottish ancestry.

What Scottish blood have you laddie?


Good question, but I've not researched it enough yet.  My last name is McKenzie and I know that it's Scottish.  I don't know of any of my ancestors, where they might have been from in Scotland, or when they left, but I intend on starting the research when my college semester is winding down in December.
Stevie

As Sitting Bull said, "If you've got one drop, you're full".

Quite the man, Sitting Bull.
landg

where are you from in the states my good man?
Kevin

Stevie wrote:
As Sitting Bull said, "If you've got one drop, you're full".

Quite the man, Sitting Bull.


Well there are other influences in there as well, but Scottish is the most prominent.  According to my family at any rate, and the last name certainly lends credence to that.
Stevie

I myself am a mix of everything on this side of Europe.

Actually, I humbly beg to differ with Chief sitting Bull in that one of the greatest 'Scots' in my view was Sir Christopher Seaton who with 'I'll mak sicar' went into*Greyfriars and finished off the ignoble Red Comyn, allowing Robert Bruce to be crowned King of Scots and wage the wars of independence (as seen on Braveheart), eventually freeing Scotland from the invading King Edward's rule.  

He didn't have a drop of Scottish blood but was married to Bruce's sister.

Alba gu brąth.
Kevin

I know Alba is Scotland but that's as far as I know of Gaelic.
Stevie

Just for info :

it's pronounced, 'alapa'
Kevin

Stevie wrote:
Just for info :

it's pronounced, 'alapa'


Didn't know that either.  Laughing
Stevie

Actually, most people in Scotland don't know that either.

Gaelic might be making a revival though.
Kevin

Stevie wrote:
Actually, most people in Scotland don't know that either.

Gaelic might be making a revival though.


I'd like to learn Gaelic one day, though there'd be no real benefit to doing so here in the states.  I think it'd be interesting, however.  I only speak English but am learning Spanish right now.
Stevie

I'd like to learn gaelic too.  I'm speaking to some of the guys on the site.

Bit busy at the moment but from summer next year I'll have much more time.
Kevin

Stevie wrote:
I'd like to learn gaelic too.  I'm speaking to some of the guys on the site.

Bit busy at the moment but from summer next year I'll have much more time.


Well you're far ahead of me lol.
Stevie

Kevin wrote:

I'd like to learn Gaelic one day, though there'd be no real benefit to doing so here in the states.  I think it'd be interesting, however.  I only speak English but am learning Spanish right now.


I think learning a foreign language gives one a far clearer view of one's own grammar and thinking processes.
Dave Coull

Stevie wrote:
one of the greatest 'Scots' in my view was Sir Christopher Seaton who with 'I'll mak sicar' went into*Greyfriars and finished off the ignoble Red Comyn, allowing Robert Bruce to be crowned King of Scots and wage the wars of independence..........He didn't have a drop of Scottish blood
Robert Bruce himself was the second biggest landowner in all of England. The only person who owned more of England than Robert Bruce was King Edward himself. Which is one reason why, until that business about makkin sicar, Bruce kept switching sides. The population of Scotland, at any given time in history, includes significant numbers of folk who are relatively new to the country. It can be interesting to research ancestors and all that stuff, but, for practical purposes, what matters is what we do in the here and now.
Stevie

Dave Coull wrote:
Stevie wrote:
one of the greatest 'Scots' in my view was Sir Christopher Seaton who with 'I'll mak sicar' went into*Greyfriars and finished off the ignoble Red Comyn, allowing Robert Bruce to be crowned King of Scots and wage the wars of independence..........He didn't have a drop of Scottish blood
Robert Bruce himself was the second biggest landowner in all of England. The only person who owned more of England than Robert Bruce was King Edward himself. Which is one reason why, until that business about makkin sicar, Bruce kept switching sides. The population of Scotland, at any given time in history, includes significant numbers of folk who are relatively new to the country. It can be interesting to research ancestors and all that stuff, but, for practical purposes, what matters is what we do in the here and now.



Bruce didn't keep switching sides.  He and his family did at the beginning to get their crown but after that, Bruce only accepted to work within a Scotland ruled by England because everyone else had surrendered - he had no other choice.
Cruachan

Welcome to the Forum Kevin.

The trouble with history is its just one thing after another Very Happy

For those with an interest (and ancestry) in Scotland this is a time for making a new future.

http://loosechange-cruachan.blogspot.com/

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