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From: Carleen Adlam <>
Subject: [ANDERSON-L] Roots in Scotland?
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 17:13:13 +0100


Dear Cousins and "Someday to find" cousins;)

Thought maybe some of you would be interested to
hear what our ancestors were listening to back in
Scotland. When I started genealogy about three
years ago, I also started playing "Celtic" music on
my fiddle (after 40 years of having put it
"away").As I dug deeper and deeper into my
"Grandfathers'" origins, etc.I began to find more
and more of them as having come from GB and, in
particular, Scotland, and coincidentally, I began to
"favor" the Scottish music style in the Celtic
genre. So, as many of you already know, I've
recorded a Scottish fiddle tunes CD and I now have a
website!!!!! It'll get fancier print this week-end,
but it now has all the pics and info it'll have when
"finished". I hope the sound clips are good! I'm
not able to listen to them because my old Mac can't
handle "new-fangled" conveniences like "sound"!
Anyway, I've researched as best I could, all the
tunes on the CD and they are authentic Scottish
"born and bred" tunes, except for the track of Irish
jigs, and, like me, I'll bet some of you have a
little Irish blood too. If some of you are
wondering what music has to do with genealogy, well,
it was probably as much a part of our ancestors'
lives as it is ours today, so anything I can find
out about how my forebearers lived, what their
feelings were, etc. the more I know about genealogy!

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL
Carleen Frazier-Adlam

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