Hi, Marge Campbell here. I believe we have a sense of roots, genetic memory, call it whatever you all want. I have always wanted to know about my Swedish roots...grampa never told us much, and what he did say always ended with "Gotcha". After his immigration in 1899, he became Oscar Eric Buren, or Eric Oscar Buren. He was born Eric Oscar Bernhard Wenström. On one census he said he was born in 1857 (and he told his children this also). Well, I found him on another census..born 1881. Made more sense. I joined a Swedes list, someone sent immigration information. I put him on my website.. 15 years after putting him on the site (went from Prodigy to Comcast..remember when Prodigy gave us the 10mg of webspace before they made the big changes?)..I have kept grampa on my website..and one of his great nephews found me via that web site! I was blessed to get to go to Sweden in 1999, almost 100 years to the day my grandpa left... We all made a toast to grandpa... I was asked to make that toast... Know what it was??... Yep "Gotcha!" My dad and I both felt we had to find our Swedish cousins, and dad didn't live long enough to go, but I kept my promise that if I found them, I would go... If you find your roots, do go..you will never experience that kind of kinship again. I visited the family farms, Stockholm, etc.. Was a wonderfull two weeks! I hope to go again one day. We hope to go to Scotland also, if we can ever find where our Ellis b 1804 in VA was decended from. > Here is my question, looking at the last quote by Steveson, there seems to > be a call to my blood, my family ,90 % of it, has been in the Colonies and > or the States for 250 - 350 years now, and so there is no direct tie back > to Scotland. Yet there is a calling to my blood for which I do not > understand, I was wondering if this makes sense to any of you Scots. I > have 5 Scottish or Ulster Scots line running through me and as I said > there is a calling and a yearning for most of my adult life. > Regards, > Richard C. Mick > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > > ______________________________