Anyone who thinks the 19th century is 'recent' must be very, very old, LOL!

Hmmm...

You realise saffron kilts are Irish, right? Not sure why you post a list of your Scottish clans. Maybe that is why the saffron kilt is for sale?

FWIW, there are some Irish clans too,...

Never been to this, although we live not far away in Maryland. My wife is Clan Davidson, and I see they are taking part, although she is handicapped and could not be persuaded to march in a...

It has to be complicated, due to the presence of Ulster Scots (generally referred to in the US as Scotch Irish).

Scotland has essentially three languages, English, Doric and Scots Gaelic (which...

My wife was told she was Clan Davidson by her Scottish grandmother, maiden name Davidson but then living just across the border in England, before the latter died [ETA: Oops! I see I already said...

I wound up on that site by accident recently. I had a very strange conversation in multiple languages with someone who appeared to have both dementia and delusions of grandeur. He gave a name, and...

What you really mean is traffic in Northern Virginia is off-putting.

My wife and I are English, although we live in the US. My wife's claim to belong to Clan Davidson is that she was told as much by her Scottish maternal grandmother, maiden name Davidson. That's good...

No doubt all largely correct, although I would add that Clan Chattan is more a confederation of other clans, but with a tartan of its own. This also underlines how there are all manner of English and...

The above helps to explain the problem with Scottish septs. They are other surnames associated with a clan, but unless your family came from the same geographical area as those of the clan name, then...

There was a car parts store near us that flew flags of all the brands they sold parts for. They were mortified when I informed them that their Union Jack was upside down!

Sure, why not?

I can't really speak either, but, for example, Irish = Gaelige (with the terminal e voiced), whereas Scots Gaelic = Gaelidh (with the dh pronounced like th). So, even if they can largely understand...

Well, I was there. Had a bridie and some stout. Couldn't find my sporran, so wore my County Cork SportKilt, which has pockets. Plain green T-shirt and long hair, if you need further ID.

I may come, but I haven't quite decided. Used to go to it every year.

It actually depends which way around you hold your hand. Palm foremost and held aloft it is indeed V for Victory, as used by Winston Churchill. Back of the hand first, and especially if accompanied...

I don't think that's quite true. The emerging scientific picture is that different races (although now you're supposed to call them clades - I suppose race is a bad word) are made up of different...

Likely to be a case of who was available. Many chiefs no longer live in Scotland, and if they still live in the Highlands, well, that is nowhere near Edinburgh, where this piece was written.

Religion is a possible link to nationality, but in the US gets less and less meaningful as we approach the present day. In the past, a Scot may have been Presbyterian and a Welshman Methodist, but in...

My late Scots uncle (who was really a cousin, I believe) was from around Glasgow, and wore a kilt in some unidentifiable (to me at the time) weathered tartan whenever he attended highland games...

My other half is Clan Davidson. I will certainly tell her about this.

My wife's mother's mother was a Davidson from Stirling. Clan Davidson is generally a recognised Scottish clan from the border area, albeit they were founded as border reivers, a weasel word for...

Don't know much about ancestry.com, but I have used familysearch.org, which is the well-known Mormon site.

Even using free resources, the problem with using data that others have researched is...

As a Londoner, I have to say something! If I am honest, the last time I recall being in Edinburgh was in my early teens, but it seemed picturesque enough. London, OTOH, is such a large place that...

As a matter of the rules, you are quite wrong. The UK Dept of Education lays down that, whatever uniform rules a school sets, they must allow a pupil of one gender to wear any garment permitted in...