User talk:Nfras
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[edit] Welcome!
Hi Nfras, and a warm welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you have enjoyed editing as much as I did so far and decide to stay. Unfamiliar with the features and workings of Wikipedia? Don't fret! Be Bold! Here's some good links for your reference and that'll get you started in no time!
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- Mailer Diablo 05:31, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Clans of Scotland Wikiproject.\
Hello, there. I'm going around to all the listed participants of the Clans of Scotland WikiProject, asking for a short update on whate they're up to as far as the project goes. I want to see if this project is still viable, and I'm wondering if anyone else is still actively participating. Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Clans of Scotland#Status.3F. Canaen 19:14, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Are you disputing the relation between Burnett and Barnes?
Rhode Islander 03:41, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
No, but I fail to see what the information you added has to do with either the Origin of the name Burnett or with Clan Burnett as a whole. It is information on how the name migrated through the US.
[edit] Clan Douglas
Regarding the Chief of the Name and following of Douglas, while Lyon does assert that is as the case as stands now, there is room to contest this in future, such as a future Earl of Selkirk legally changing his name. The idea that the Clan and Family distinction is a Victorian invention is simply not correct. Hume of Godscroft writing at the turn of the seventeenth century calls his book "A History of the House and Race of Douglas and Angus". Furthermore, the idea that all Scots families are tartan wearing clans does seem to be a Victorian invention cf. Vestiarium Scoticum. The Earl of Douglas was known by contemporary chroniclers such as Froissart, Fordun etc. as that most "puissant prince", an indication of the House of Douglas' martial prowess and semi-regal power, indeed the 4th Earl of Douglas being given, albeit briefly before his death a French Royal Dukedom. The Douglases were a noted European family, and were very much European in outlook, speaking Scots, French and English. In those languages it's: Hoose, House, Maison! Cheers. Brendandh 18:05, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
