A compelling and evocative history of an ordinary 21st century American family detailing its varied and diverse historical and cultural elements through out history. An enthralling journey through time and culture giving a strong narrative account of the similar Celtic roots of many American families. Using records and tools as varied as archeology, anthropology, ethnology, etymology, geology, mythology, legends and historical documentation, Scales embarks on a fascinating quest to link together the pieces of a vast jigsaw of the forgotten Celtic heritage of many American families while developing a chronological framework to historical events and family bloodlines. With an astonishing insight into the cultural effects of the travels and historical events of our founding fathers, more than a dozen separate family lines are identified with their earliest American ancestors and which part of the ancient Celtic world those families came from. Reaching as far back into the origin of the Celtic people as the Sumerian Culture of 4000bc to their arrival in Ireland, Germany and Scotland sets a framework for the detailed history of the Picts and Scots who's blood still runs in many American veins.

A trilogy of fresh and well-researched fictional romance novels depicting three separate generational eras of the Celtic Wemyss Clan in Fife Scotland to follow the compelling and evocative historical, genealogical and cultural information provided in Volume 1. Continue the quest to uncover and understand the lives of the Celtic ancestors of this particular branch of an American family long before they reached the land of America. KINDRED WITH CELTIC BLOOD, ECHOES OF ELCHO, and DEERHOUND OF THE PICTS are all three warm and intriguing tales set against the historical backdrop of medieval Celtic Scotland. In each episode a tapestry is woven of the ways of the ancient Celtic seanchai, ancient riddles carved in separate stones in the encrypted language of Ogham, the honor of knights, history of kings, love of strong willed Celtic women and their influences on the making of the future of the family. Begin exploring the adventurous existence of our clan the morning after King Alexander III dies and follow them through their move to Elcho Castle in Perth as you find yourself being transported back into the breathtakingly roughed and beautiful lands of Fife Scotland of the 13th, 16th and 18th centuries.

This anthology of over 200 Celtic poems is representative of classic poems from Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Brittany. It also includes ancient Cornish, early Armorican and some Anglo-Celtic-Manx poems. Broken down into sections sorting the poems from the period and locations, it covers ancient and medieval poems through to modern times.