I was told by my Dad years ago that his father had traced our family tree back to Rob Roy. That's as much as I knew, it could be distant or closer than we thought.

Anyway, I've been trying on and off to trace the family tree without much success. Today however in one fell swoop I managed to trace back to 1550. Rob Roy is in there and a lot closer a relation than we thought as it turns out he is my seven time great-grandfather. Granted, there will be a lot of us but it is nice to know that I am a direct descendant of the fella.

Now I have the dilemma of whether to go for the red and black or the red and green MacGregor tartans!

Happy days!