In a message dated 8/5/99 6:29:55 PM Pacific Daylight Time, TRIER-ROOTS-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << Subject: [TRIER-ROOTS-L] NEIFING/WARKMAN; DEU > DFS,SCT; 1600- > Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 19:25:51 -0700 > From: angel@adcomsys.net >> I remember reading in a book (can't think of it right now) about about 1600, 5,000 Scotsmen (no females) moved to Poland. I do know that most of the trees in Scotland had been cut down c. 1000, so most of the top soil washed away, the configuration of the Scots' farms led to pilferage (cattle rustling?), times were very hard. Helen Hewitt