Sought: Clan History, Clan anecdotes and more

[ClanSeeker]

Originally Posted by ScotSites

I've just had a look at your web site and (if I am reading it right) you are implying the Picts were Danish? I've left a comment on your site about this, but the bottom line is you maybe need to recheck your sources! Good luck with the book tho!

Thanks, Bruce!

What you've read on my Blog is the first bit of info I took in (I mean, REALLY took in) about the abundant history of Scotland. Yes, It'll probably be full of errors and mis-interpretations; that's why I decided to turn to you guys for help, be it with the history or by providing anecdotes of your personal clans.

As for sources, as you say, there's a lot of misinformation out on the net, but being a complete and utter (Dutch) layman, I'm not likely to be the person to claim or even determine what is right or not..

Hence my request...

Thanks again !

[aNonnyMoose]

Aye, you really need to do a bit of actual research. Danish Picts... good grief! Who was William Braveheart, never heard of him (and I'm doing a degree in history, specialising in Scottish history). And what is a Lamont branche ? Even the Vikings? The Vikings were present in Scotland in one form or another for over 700 years... Celts weren't exclusively Irish... even the Chinese and Russians are laying claim to them these days.

Most of us don't have personal clans, nor do we frankly give a toss about them - clan associations these days are run by foreigners whose only aim is to extract money from the gullible, and who resigned the moral right to be regarded as fathers of the clan when they abandoned their lands for the fleshpots of London, 300+ years ago.

Start again. Read some factual books about Scottish history so you've got a basic background framework that rests on fact and not fantasy. And then go for it.

Ultimately it won't be any more rubbish than that Gabaldon women's witterings, and they sell for some reason.

Not to students of history, though.

[ClanSeeker]

Originally Posted by aNonnyMoose

Aye, you really need to do a bit of actual research. Danish Picts... good grief! Who was William Braveheart, never heard of him (and I'm doing a degree in history, specialising in Scottish history). And what is a Lamont branche ? Even the Vikings? The Vikings were present in Scotland in one form or another for over 700 years... Celts weren't exclusively Irish... even the Chinese and Russians are laying claim to them these days.

Most of us don't have personal clans, nor do we frankly give a toss about them - clan associations these days are run by foreigners whose only aim is to extract money from the gullible, and who resigned the moral right to be regarded as fathers of the clan when they abandoned their lands for the fleshpots of London, 300+ years ago.

Start again. Read some factual books about Scottish history so you've got a basic background framework that rests on fact and not fantasy. And then go for it.

Ultimately it won't be any more rubbish than that Gabaldon women's witterings, and they sell for some reason.

Not to students of history, though.

Hey thanks bud, you just cooled my interest in Scots History. You sound like a really nice guy, only the type I'd rather not be associated with: "You can't write about Scotland if you're not studying it".

Guess what? I don't have a degree, not any. A swimming diploma and a driving license and some certificates worth **** all.

Read my OP again, ****wit: I'm asking for help, not to be slagged off by some studious type that classes me a talking turd.

Guess I'll make the Scotland.com black list now, and guess what?
I don't give a ****; as said before, I prefer not to be associated with the likes of you, and if your kind are who rule this Forum, then have fun, thanks but no thanks, trying to give up...

I come for help and all I get is "rolling eyes" emoticons and a professor who desperately needs to get laid instead of playing on Forae..

Have a nice life, toddlers!


*Scotty, beam me up...*

[ScotSites]

Wow ClanSeeker, what an extreme reaction that was! Maybe you do need to go on some sort of black list following that uncalled for wee strop... or maybe you just need to grow up and read what was actually written! Anyway, just for you, here's some of those rolling eyes you so desperately crave and yet have only received once in a response so far:

[Polwarth]

Alas, I fear you are too late with your rolling eye offering, ScotSites.. If I read the wee tantrum correctly, he's for the offski

[ScotSites]

Good riddance too if his recent childish attitude is anything to go by! It should really have been clear to us that someone who couldn't even get basic info right (you have to laugh at the Danish Picts thing!) then his final offering was unlikely to be worth reading... a bit like that Wallace bloke's Braveheart book!

[Babz]

Originally Posted by ClanSeeker

Hey thanks bud, you just cooled my interest in Scots History. You sound like a really nice guy, only
the type I'd rather not be associated with: "You can't write about Scotland if you're not studying it".

Guess we all see words differently...that to me was just some factual information

BTW...Nonny was just the person you needed to set you on the right track !

Guess what? I don't have a degree, not any. A swimming diploma and a driving license and
some certificates worth **** all.

Read my OP again, ****wit: I'm asking for help, not to be slagged off by some studious type
that classes me a talking turd.

You would have got help but I suppose the reply above has scuppered that now

Guess I'll make the Scotland.com black list now, and guess what?

I don't give a ****; as said before, I prefer not to be associated with the likes of you, and if
your kind are who rule this Forum, then have fun, thanks but no thanks, trying to give up...

I come for help and all I get is "rolling eyes" emoticons and a professor who desperately needs to
get laid instead of playing on Forae..

Have a nice life, toddlers!


*Scotty, beam me up...*

That's why I need the expertise of some truly Scotch History buffs like yourself is something you
said in a post and when you actually get someone who is doing a degree specialising in Scottish
History you seemed to take offence at his comments

I suppose seeing all the work you had done being criticised would make you one unhappy person but....

The personal insults you have flung at him are uncalled for.

The best piece of advice Nonny gave you was....

Start again. Read some factual books about Scottish history so you've got a basic background
framework that rests on fact and not fantasy. And then go for it.