Actually, the genealogy of my family is very path dependent, too. Ironclad, in fact. When I did a study of the history of my family in the US there’s a thin line of the name right across the country where the rail lines were built, with little concentrations along the way where various ancestors decided that’s all the trains any reasonable fellow could want…

I don’t know about the Irish as the Lost Tribes, but there’s a very suggestive link between the Tuatha de Danaan who settled Ireland before the Milesians and the “Children of Danae” who the fled “The sons of Aegyptus”…

Catherine ó Ah, yes, Ulster Scots… drink like Irishmen, then run off to the jakes when it’s their turn to buy a round…*g*

But keep in mind, we’ve held one grudge already for 900 years. What’s a few decades to us?