Re: Asian migration to Scandinavia

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Jarrette" <anjarrette@...> wrote:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@> wrote:
> >
>
> > I didn't say it works for all. They do however work for many of the
> West Highland Clans such as Macdonald, mac Alasdair, Mac Leod, etc.
> and for Lowland families of Norman descent such as Bruce and Stewart.
> Many of the Icelandic genealogies go back to the Orkneys and
> Shetlands, which is where most split from the families that went to
> Normandy and the Isle of Man. Thanks to those Icelandic genealogies,
> Scots and Norman families who can trace their ancestry to the Orkneys
> and Shetlands or Isle of Man can then trace their ancestry farther

back.

> > So if you can trace your ancestry back to say King Orry of Man or
> William the Conqueror, both of whom had known ancestors in the
> Shetlands/Orkney Islands, the Icelandic genealogies take them back, in
> most cases, to Western Norway and from there to myth-history --e.g. to
> Ingjald Illrada, Harald Blotanda, etc. all the back to Odin, making
> you Torsten distant cousin.
>
>
> So if your ancestry goes back to the Orkneys, Shetlands, or Isle of
> Man, you will (probably?) have some Icelandic stock? My mother's side
> goes back to Scotland in the 1700's, when two brothers emigrated, one
> going to the West Indies and the other going to Canada. My mother
> descends (partly) from the one that went to the West Indies, and her
> maiden name is McMillan (and her mother's maiden name was Campbell,
> apparently also of Scottish origin). The Scottish part of her ancestry
> is fairly obvious from her appearance (red/gold/brown straight hair,
> freckles, light skin). Our family doesn't know much else about our
> genealogy, since we only found out our Scottish ancestry from a family
> who descended from the brother that went to Canada, and who contacted
> us and informed us of our common ancestry (they have a full genealogy,
> but I am no longer in contact with tmem). But do you know if McMillan
> or Campbell might be one of the West Highland or Lowland clans that
> have some Icelandic stock? Or of the Orkney/Shetland/Isle of Man
> clans? Of course, I could go to one of those genealogy websites, but
> maybe you could provide a little foreknowledge on this point before I
> shell out the dough for it.
>

P.S. to Rick: what I do know about the McMillans (and I don't know
why some spell it MacMillan, and whether they are related (cf. Harold
MacMillan, former PM of Great Britain) is that their name is from <mac
maolain> which means "son of the priest". Campbell so strongly
suggests <campobellum>, as though it were a Roman name meaning
"battlefield", but perhaps it's more something like "cambail" or
another Irish word of some sort?

AJ