>> It's scary for me to think my grandparents made almost this same
>>> crossing just a few years later than Titanic. They were, of course,
>>> in the Third Class and coming over over from Scotland. They might
>>> have thrown in some scones to go with the tea
>>>
>>> Jill

All of my grandparents came over here on boats and I'm sure that it wasn't
First Class. My mother's parents landed in Canada, separately, and later met
each each other and married and had a kid or two before going south. I think
it was similar with Dad's parents, coming from Lithuania but landing somewhere
on the East Coast where my grandfather worked in the mines and my grandmother
worked in the fabric mills and somehow met each other in Lowell, MA.
..
>> They probably brought their own haggis.

If ever offered me, I will try haggis once.

>Aye, they may have! They always did go doon to the Scottish Rite Cathedral
>on Rabbie Burns' birthday to see the piping of the haggis.
>
Wrong nationality, but we have a friend who gives a St. Pat's party every year
with pipers.