As a symbol for the group, you may wish to see the symbol of the East Donegal Ulster Scots Association, of which I am a member: http://www.eastdonegalulsterscots.com/peace.html As you can see, it incorporates the shamrock for the Irish connection, a thistle for the Scottish connection and the Red Hand of Ulster, from the famous Celtic myth, for the Ulster connection. Boyd Gray http://familytrees.genopro.com/boydgray26/Boyd/default.htm http://www.westulstergenealogy.com/
Hi Boyd, your symbol works for you, but in Tennessee, I am not sure anyone would understand it. We'd have to spend lots of Euros/dollars doing market research to be sure of course. The first time I ran into the Red Hand was in a book. It makes no sense here. You'd have to explain it. That's one of this ethnic group's problems: we became different in the various places we went to. One person suggested to me a symbol with the Union flag ....well now, that won't work in Tennessee either. It makes the bearer seem like a Tory (in the American sense : ie a Loyalist in the American Revolution, descendents now in Canada). Perhaps a shamrock impaled on a thistle kind of gets the point across in a universal fashion? (just joking!) Linda Merle ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, March 8, 2010 7:40:46 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [S-I] symbol for group As a symbol for the group, you may wish to see the symbol of the East Donegal Ulster Scots Association, of which I am a member: http://www.eastdonegalulsterscots.com/peace.html As you can see, it incorporates the shamrock for the Irish connection, a thistle for the Scottish connection and the Red Hand of Ulster, from the famous Celtic myth, for the Ulster connection. Boyd Gray http://familytrees.genopro.com/boydgray26/Boyd/default.htm http://www.westulstergenealogy.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message