Highland Games and Festivals

[arlin payne]

I have a question and dont want to start a new thread just for this. Will the reps
from Clan Thom(p)son be setting up a tent or booth at the highland games here
in Phoenix, the last week end of Feb.09?  I sure hope so, since this is the only one
I can look forward to with any certainty.

Arlin

[Mary]

Hi Arlin ---

I wish, but we don't have a commissioner for Arizona to do the 'heavy lifting.' Remember how YOUNG this organization is! Our commissioners are society members who volunteer to do the tents to further our efforts at getting the word out that there IS a 'home' for Thom(p)sons........that we aren't MacTavish, MacIntosh, Fraser, MacThomas, etc.................we are THOM(P)SONS, independent, rowdy, lowland border reivers!

Maybe you should join the society and we'll get you trained so you can volunteer to run the tent!

Mary

[arlin payne]

Hi Mary.
Thanks for the reply.(puter has been down a while). I've sitting around wishing
I could get more involved,but chemo therapy and a social security check will not
allow it. Maybe I will get to join the clan in a month or so.I wish I could do more
than give moral support but that isn't to be. Sorry.
Arlin

[Mary]

    Support is support.........moral or otherwise.

Hope your situation improves by leaps and bounds - would love to have you working tents! Tom and I have been retired for years, so I understand how the social security checks are 'somewhat' limiting!

Stay active with us online and maybe we'll be able to encourage someone else!

Mary

[MACTAVISH]

Hi Mary.
Thanks for the reply.(puter has been down a while). I've sitting around wishing
I could get more involved,but chemo therapy and a social security check will not
allow it. Maybe I will get to join the clan in a month or so.I wish I could do more
than give moral support but that isn't to be. Sorry.
Arlin

YOURE THESE GUY'S FAMILY AND YOU'LL FIND 2 HUGE THINGS HERE......ACCEPTANCE AND UNDERSTANDING. YOU DO WHAT YOU CAN WHEN YOU CAN; AT YOUR OWN SPEED. IF YOU HAVE SOME PROBLEMS- AND WHO HASNT- SEEMS TO ME THAT THIS IS THE TIME TO HAVE FAMILY AROUND YOU, THEY'LL ENCOURAGE AND FIGHT YOUR CORNER. THEY'LL BE THERE IF YOU NEED THEM AND GIVE YOU SPACE IF YOU DON'T. BE POSITIVE ARLIN. THEY CARE. I CARE- AND IM AN OCEAN AWAY.IM NOT FAMILY BUT I CARE ABOUT YOU REPROBATES.......

[Donna]

Hey MacTavish,

What do you mean that you're not family!!!!   
I'm sure I speak for everyone here when I say that we count you
as one of our own!

Donna

[Forum_mgr]

MACTAVISH - you can be our own, private, much-adored BLACK SHEEP and mascot 

F.M.

[MACTAVISH]

DONNA AND F M ; YOURE VERY KIND!
IM ENCOURAGABLE/STUBBORN/OPINIONATED/OVER PROUD/AGGRESSIVE/LOYAL/FIGHT FOR TRUTH AND RIGHT/IN YOUR FACE.........................AND TO QUOTE THE IRISHMAN, STEVEN, IN 'BRAVEHEART'
  'IV'E COME TO THE RIGHT PLACE THEN'?

[Donna]

MacTavish...you forgot to mention,

The holder of several blue ribbons!


Donna

[Barbara]

  That's right Donna.  MacTavish you are ours, part of our family as you and Cathy have made us part of yours.  We reprobates love like company. 

Barbara

[Michael Thompson]

IM ENCOURAGABLE/STUBBORN/OPINIONATED/OVER PROUD/AGGRESSIVE/LOYAL/FIGHT FOR TRUTH AND RIGHT/IN YOUR FACE[/color]

And those are your good qualities Stevie. You've definitely come to the right place.

[arlin payne]

Hello All.
I haven't been any where, just been getting a(404 or access denied) every time
I tried to get here.Why,? dont know.
The understanding and support from all here is much appreciated. It is nice to
have family around even though we've never met. Would like to meet the whole
group though, maybe some day.
Hey Mac T, Thompson or MacTavish,it's no matter, you're still kin. Like four cousins
of mine. I was a teen ager before  I found out that they were'nt any blood kin but
by then it was to late to change my thinking.Only one of them left and she's still
my cousin. It was a bunch of years before I found out the MacTavish and  the
Thom(p)sons  weren't kin but we always will be.
My best wishes to all.

Arlin

[Mary]

Hi Arlin -

So....who says you can't choose your family??  That's what we're doing here!

Speaking of which, after Booner and Tom had their DNA done we found out that they ARE related!  Bear in mind though that Booner describes himself as big, hairy and ugly and Tom says he strongly denies that any of those descriptors apply to him! But isn't that neat?? Not only do they have the same last name.......but way back, they have the same ancestor and ARE family in fact and by choice!

I encourage the rest of you who carry the Thom(p)son name to take the plunge and have your DNA done. Tom and Booner both went through ancestry.com.
It isn't cheap but if you carry the name it means you have the Thompson male DNA and you may find relationships like Tom did! Or like another member in IL who shares a common ancestor (T-27) with E. Thompson and had additional family information to share.

Mary

[A. Thompson]

what do you do if you can't get any male with thompson name to agree to it in your family.  I'm kind of alone here as far as my close biological family.

[Mary]

There is a mitochondrial (female) test but it is very limited in being able to find relatives from previous generations.  On the Y chromosome testing you can go as distant as a 1st cousin for testing.......(Father, brother, son or 1st cousin)

Truly a problem if you don't have willing (or living) contributors......