Should You Buy a Scottish Clan Map? 

I live in Glasgow, Scotland The Brave playing at the start reminds me of the time some guy was playing Scotland The Brave on the bagpipes from his flat in the high rise flats opposite us, with his window wide open, lol.

That is how Scots did in the Colinies, too. My 6th Great Grandfather was Rev. William Robertson the “immigrant” who migrated to Henrico County, VA circa 1700. The children by his first wife were named Robertson, but the children by his second wife were named Robinson. I descend from the second wife, so my mother was a Robinson. I have no idea why the name change but assume it was because he wanted to give them a better chance to succeed in the English driven colonies because the Englishhated the Scots but this does not keep me from having 25% Scottish DNA.

My 13th great grandfather John MacLeod IX of Gesto and Glenelg had his lands seized by King James I. These lands were near Waternish Isle of Skye and Also Glenelg on the mainland. Dunno why it happened. I would be curious to find out. The land had been handed down for 6 generations from the 3rd MacLeod clan cheif as I understand it. My ancestors moved to Dumfries after the land seizures and eventually to Kirkmichael before they came yo America in the 1740s. The Father and Son duo of McClure's were Revolutionary War Patriots. If it weren't for land seizures maybe I am never born?

It did help, my ancestry goes back to both the Douglas and Kilgore clans