Hope you had a nice Memorial Day weekend. Well, the holiday didn't disappoint in the weather department In my lifetime I have only had maybe two dry weekends that I can remember.
I attended a Minnesota Scottish Fair, located on the Dakota County Fairgrounds in Farmington, Minnesota, with my daughter on May 4, 2013. While visiting one of the tents I mentioned to the gentleman I wasn't sure if I had any Scottish ancestry. He then asked me what my father's last name was. I told him and there was the surname of my dad, but that was more of a German background. In doing some genealogy sleuthing I did find out there was some through my father's maternal line. Yippey!! Now I will not feel bad when I go to wear a tartan design. Since there may be many tartan options due to many ancestors surnames, I may choose a design (Pride of Scotland) that will not insult a family.
Celtic music touches my soul as it is haunting and beautiful. Ballads are great as they are lively and the tell a story. Some music today is so loud you cannot even her the words of the song. A quote from a movie (Pure Country - George Strait), "A song is not a song without the words".
Ancestry.com was a good starting point for my sleuthing is genealogy. Be careful though as there are many people who may have the same name as your ancestor. Census records also have issues. The person entering a name may spell it wrong and a person transcribing the census may read it wrong, as I found out about my dad. His first name is Gene. When it was entered into the census record is was entered as Jene. Then when transcribed it came out as Jeroe. It is sad today that the current generation has a hard time decoding "cursive". My opinion is the schools should bring back "cursive".
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