Hello from Gastonia, N.C.

**Chas** · 29th January 11, 03:23 AM

Hello Matt,

Welcome to XMarks from the other side of the Atlantic in Norfolk, England.

The best thing you can do is never listen to advice from Youtube.

Regards

Chas

**McClef** · 29th January 11, 04:31 AM

from South Wales UK!

**Donnie** · 29th January 11, 05:05 AM

from just north of you in statesville. tell the guy on youtube to "bugger off"

**SlackerDrummer** · 29th January 11, 11:07 PM

Hmmm. A kilt at the Catfish Jam. It could happen.

Greetings from a graduate of Ashbrook High School now living in the Bluegrass State.

**Matt Richards** · 30th January 11, 10:57 AM

Small world! Ashbrook is about a mile up the street from me. Pleased to meet you!

**Mike_Oettle** · 30th January 11, 01:16 PM

Hi, Matt, and welcome to X Marks from the bottom end of Africa.
Your Ulster pedigree looks more than sufficiently Scottish to me.
And even if it weren’t, it would do you no harm to wear a kilt.
I got into it through my regiment, and when I left the army 33 years ago I handed my kilt in.
I have regretted it ever since, but was scared off by the high price of kilts.
Now I have had one made for me, and I expect to take delivery this week.
I am of Scottish descent through my maternal grandmother. But just lately I have been looking into the rest of my family tree and found quite a few other Scottish connections. People with my German surname have ties to easily half a dozen clans!
Regards,
Mike

**Dall_Piobaire** · 30th January 11, 02:38 PM

Halo from G'boro. A yankee myself, NJ and CT girlfriend from Scranton!

**dougle** · 30th January 11, 06:16 PM

Welcome from Worcestershire England

**McFarkus** · 31st January 11, 10:55 AM

from Chicago. Here's a Wikipedia article on the Plantation of Ulster, a move by King James to 'civilize' Ireland. This is where the term Scots-Irish came from. Scots who came from Ireland. One of my Scots lines (Gordon) was there from 1646 to 1738 when two Gordon brothers emigrated to Virginia.