Happy Scottish Tartan Day! (This post also titled: Tartan It Up!)

To celebrate Tartan Day (and add some color to my entry for the day) I thought I'd share, briefly, some of the various clans and their tartans from whence I come. Before I get to that, however, I will name one other ancestor from whom I am a direct descendant: Robert the Bruce . I was a little sad watching Braveheart cause it seemed like he was a real putz - but then, it was the story of William Wallace, so perhaps they changed the history a bit (Gasp, horror - Hollywood isn't 100% historically accurate?) in order to make Wallace even more of a hero. Don't know, haven't done the research, but regardless, I will claim the relationship. Especially as it's because we can tie directly back to the Bruce that we can then extend our genealogy back to Charlemagne . And well, that's just cool.

So, without further ado, tartans of a sampling of our Scottish family names:

Bruce



Campbell


Knox


McLeod


Stewart

And last but not least,

Witherspoon



Edited to fix the comment that we could "die" back to the Bruce - while technically accurate, I did mean to type "tie". Ah, typos. Where would we be without 'ye?