Seachnasaigh WOW! You know your history farther back than anyone else I know! Quite an interesting reply-thanks! I've Irish/Scots/Norwegian/English ancestory myself-but I've not a clue of the ancient history. I have heard of your famous ancestors-I've an interest in history.

Eric

Quote - (Eric Walters)  > Quote - Seachnasaigh- with a name like that I assumed you were in Ireland using a Gaelic name! I've been calling you "Sean" because my odds of spelling seachna.... are small. 

       Be glad I didn't use a surname from the Welsh line.    Seachnasaigh is pronounced shock'-na-sigh;  it means deflect (a blow) and counterstrike in Irish.  That's Galway (the last stronghold of the seachnasaigh) in the background of my avatar.  After the last Irish kingdom fell to England, my Irish/Danish forebears left for America.  My Scottish/Norwegian line (descended from Robert the Bruce {"thistle"} and from the black Douglas) did likewise.  Much of my blood is of the old Welsh (the remnant of the original Japhethites who lived in Albany before the Anglo-Saxons.   When the English took over the colonies (New York used to be New Amsterdam), my folks crossed the Allegheny mountains to live free.

     This doesn't imply an enmity for Britain;  we are ardent allies, and more respectful of Churchill and Margaret Thatcher than are most Brits.  We just don't want to be subjects.

  Celt and Viking:  a volatile combination!