Geneology - What's yours?

[Cat]

I've got some MacKinnon (changed to McKinnon during immigration into Canada), as well as a bit of Stuart and MacDonald WAAAAYYY back in the day. I've also got French (surname Baril, supposedly fairly noble family a few hundred years ago. Also via Canada.), Italian (Sicilian no less!) and Spanish. I've heard that there is some Finnish in there too, but I haven't found anything in the past hundred years or so, so I'm not so sure about that. My main roadblock is my grandmother on my father's side, I can't find out anything about her parents. I keep meaning to call her one of these days and get their names.

When I was doing my research, I found it interesting how many Scots ended up in Quebec...you'd end up with children that had a Scottish surname and a French first name (on of my distant relatives is someone named Emil McKinnon), or vice-versa.

Now here's the kicker: my last name is Krakowski. I have no Polish in me and I wasn't adopted!!!*

*(It's actually pretty simple...my mother was adopted and she had me at the age of 17. She never married the tool, er, my father and her surname at the time was Krakowski. I never bothered taking the surname of either of her husbands, so the name stuck. Plus, my grandparents had a big hand in raising me at various times. Maybe one day I'll legally change it, but honestly, I have better things to spend money on and worry about. Having been around a Polish grandfather, who's still going strong at 78, I will NEVER turn down a pierogie or borscht though!!!)

[Jack Daw]

MacIntyre, Maitland, Kerr, MacPherson, Turner, Stewart, Buchanan, Skene, and Robeson for the Scots. Pugh and Humphries for the Welsh. And, Delaney, Earle, and Moore for the Irish.

[Erikm]

Some of my family name's The Gourlays from Fifeshire, also I have Campbell's and
Geddie's from Cupar Scotland. others include BROCK-Makgill-Paterson-Scott-Cockburn-Foreman-MoneyPenny-Abercrombie-Baxter-Wemyss-Keith-Erskine-Lermont-Alderston-Orme just to name a few when I did my geneology search.also my last name middleton used to be with one midleton, My ggrandfather was from Glasgow any here connect to any of these familys?

[Arlen]

My family from the mid-1700's are from Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire. (Some of them still live there but my branch moved a bit further down.)
However, there are none of those names in my line.
My wife has some Bells in her line but they were from the borders.

[gilmore]

The surnames I am most actively researching are:

DANIEL/O'DANIEL, WILLIAMS, BARLOW, JONES, HENDRICKS, CALLAWAY, HODGES, GILMORE, MATHIS, BOYER, HITCHCOCK, LARK, BLAKELY, THOMAS, ROBERTS, GRIGSBY, BUTLER, MASON, WYCHE or WYCKE, LEWIS, HALL, HUNT, BATES, BELL, TUCKER, WYNNE, JEFFERSON (yes, those Jeffersons), BRANCH, BOND, PEARSON, RAIFORD, FAIRCHILD, PORCHER, MILLER, WOOD, BARKER, BRUTON, BREWTON, FONTAINE, JOHNSON, GOULD, ARNOLD, RANDLE, LITTLE, COLSON, FORD, HUGHES, DUGGAN, SMITHWICK, HYMAN, BANKSTON, BRUCE, BENNETT, MONTAGUE, ALLEN, SANDERS, PIERCE, BALDRIDGE, COOKE, LANCELOT, GRAY, MOORMAN, ALLERTON, COPPIN, POYTHRESS, ROBISON, DAVIS, MILLER, WOOD, BARKER, SHAFF/SHOFICH. Almost all Southern US, generally 1600-1700's VA, MD & NC>1700-1800's SC & GA>1800's AL & MS.

I had a great-great-great-great grandmother, Lucretia Bell (1757 or 1749-1822 or 1823) who descends from my earliest known Bell ancestor, Richard Bell, born circa 1642, James City, Virginia. I don't know where his ancestors came from.

[Cynthia]

The surnames I'm focusing on at the moment are (mainly the first four):

GRIFFITH
MOORE (both parents' sides, actually)
GRANT
McNEILL
WHITIS/WHITEHURST
HAWKER/HACKER (my German line, they changed to Hacker, but I'm not 100% sure the original was Hawker... the wife's maiden name is Vierk/Vierek or something like that)
HOLDERFIELD/HOLYFIELD (various spellings of the latter)

[ChattanCat]

Additionally, I have may be related to you with the following lineage:
Norman
Johnson
McNany
Harvey
Norman

All good scottish surnames...

[ChattanCat]

So, I think I have blood lines to the following clans:
Norman - Sutherland Clan
Johnson - The Jonesing Clan
Harvey - Keith Clan
Scott - Scott Clan
Bell - MacMillan Clan
Johnson - MacDonald Clan?
McNany - ??

Any help would be great. McNany doesn't seem to be listed anywhere but it is a Mc. Any suggestions?

[Prester John]

German mostly, but.....

married to a Robertson, and that is what we wear!

[Galician]

I'm more intrigued by the photo. Any idea when it was taken? Also, what exactly is he wearing? A Great Kilt or a plaid? What are those medals? And why a feather like that???

Was all that standard dress for that period?