Can you access this site -http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/learning/william/ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Karen Sent: 14 March 2010 13:59 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [S-I] Okay Bit-Map People!! Ok, I give up. Who is King Billy? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Penny Bonnar" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 5:32 PM Subject: Re: [S-I] Okay Bit-Map People!! >I know. I realized after I sent the link that it was only Scottish. > > Then I looked for other sites, but there really isn't much. > > On Mar 7, 2010, at 3:03 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> Hi Penny, Cute, but we're not Scottish <grin>. Once you landed in Ulster >> you were living in a new political climate and you changed. There doesn't >> seem to have been nearly as many kilts (after the Plantation at least) or >> haggis -- which you can see immediately was an improvement. On the >> negative side the natives were unfriendly but on the other hand, they had >> very good looking daughters. The fake highland stuff wouldn't do >> anyway -- only highlanders wore them, before they were made unlawful. Our >> lowland Scots ancestors would >> as soon appear in public in a kilt as Andrew Jackson would have been >> caught walking around in Washington >> DC in a loincloth with tomahawk! Lowland Scots were as fond of >> highlanders as Andy was of Indians, too. >> However now it is big money to sell you some itchy wool so who cares >> about the truth. >> >> The climate in east Ulster at least was pretty good, so we grew a lot of >> different kinds of grains. Even today in Belfast the bakeries are full of >> all kinds of breads you will find no where else in Ireland -- or even >> perhaps Scotland. In fact the parent of the famous southern breakfast is >> the Ulster breakfast. The north coast is not called the Chlorestorol >> Coast for no good reason. If your mother, like mine, though her ancesters >> had left Ireland 250 years before, was still enjoying a lot of different >> breads -- that's a sign that she was an Ulster girl. >> >> So if you go to Ulster this summer, diet before hand so you will have >> more room for the food. >> >> I found an image, maybe a little too Ulstery -- but this is a challenge >> for us Americans to come up with something not Scottish and not even >> Ulster. If only I had a photie of my grandfather's favorite goat. I'd >> even use this bitmap of tartan that I inherited, but I know the ancestor >> brought it from Scotland: >> http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~merle/Family/Tartan.htm >> >> So it won't do either.... But King Billy will do for now because if our >> ancestors were Protestants in Ireland, they were on his side. If your >> immediate ancestors tell other stories, it's a sign they were either >> brainwashed recently or your family assimilated after 1600. Which is an >> important clue. Many Irish did, as the DNA shows. If your DNA is Irish, >> be happy. What was Scotland once but an Irish colony? Your ancestors >> christianized the >> heathenish Scotti (ex Irish, themselves) and the Picts of Alba. Feel >> proud! >> >> Linda Merle >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Penny Bonnar" <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Sunday, March 7, 2010 3:25:07 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern >> Subject: Re: [S-I] Okay Bit-Map People!! >> >> Maybe something here? >> >> http://www.scottish-crafts.co.uk/clipart.htm >> >> >> On Mar 7, 2010, at 1:56 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> >>> I can't find a good image for the genealogy wise list. I did try a >>> bitmap of King Billy but it was apparently too big and didn't work. >>> Unfortunately we are not the most visually graphic people on the planet, >>> I see (again) searching the Internet. >>> >>> Anyone know of a little orange lily or something that'll work (that is >>> either in the public domain or the owner will let us use)? >>> >>> What is sad is all these images are from Ulster -- what has America got >>> to offer, I wonder? (Don't look at me, I'm apparently too Scotch Irish >>> to HAVE anything visual!!!!). >>> >>> Does anyone have a clever loyalist son or daughter who can make a little >>> bitmap? >>> >>> And does anyone want to start an Ulster Scots, Canadian Ulster Scots, >>> etc, group???? (Or are you all too busy drinking green beer to network >>> for your heritage?) >>> >>> Off to find NewDog who ran away on his walk today.....he has my phone >>> number on his collar so he'll be back... Maybe now we know how the >>> little bugger became homeless in the first place <grin>. >>> >>> Linda Merle >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> 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 >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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 ------------------------------- 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 http://www.bbc.co.uk/ This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. 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