Hi, guys! After reading the excellent paper from William Bell and the Bell Family Association, I see that just about everything I learned about Bell ancestry in Scotland during my trip to Scotland many years ago has been proven wrong. Now I have discovered this URL that looks like a gold mine of information on this subject; if you have not known of it be sure to go to it and I am sure you will be delighted. It is from the University of Edinburgh and gives an index of sources of information in Scotland for genealogists interested in Scottish ancestry. It is: http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/scotland/GENEALOGY.HTML The first thing I looked up was the Bell Blackethouse tartan as described by William Bell and it was there in full color!