trying to find my family in Scotland

[Chamberlaink]

I'm trying to find information on where to start looking for my ancestors. My moms maiden name is Kilgore and her Father was named Charles Kilgore. She tells me  that my great grandfather was a plantation owner and  had a child with one of the  Charles Kilgore's mother. The spelling has changed, it was originally Kilgour. I feel like im searching through a needle and a haystack. If its true how would i find records of this?
Charles Kilgore spent  the mid part of his life in mangum oklahoma then moved to california

[aghadowey]

Welcome to Rootschat. It sounds as though you've just started tracing your family, or at least this branch of it, but before you can do any research overseas in Scotland you will need to trace your family line back in U.S. records step-by-step to make sure you have the correct details (names, dates, etc.).

[shellyesq]

I agree with aghadowey.  If you don't have your great-grandfather's name, you might want to get birth, marriage, or death certificate for your grandfather.  If you can figure out who immigrated to the US and when, a passenger list might have information about where they came from and help you to narrow things down. 

If you need help on the US end of things, you can post on the US board here:  http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/board,164.0.html

[bobkilgour]

I am a Kilgour and currently searching the male line of my family as we all came from Fife, Scotland.
As far as I can recall back in the days when Catholics were pushed out of Scotland a few hundred years ago when religious tolerance was very low, the Kilgour catholics shipped over to USA, Canada and others and some of them changed their spelling to Kilgore. I believe I am right saying that but maybe someone with more knowledge may have a diferent line.

Scotlands People, the Scottish governments geneology website has a great wealth of information so like me if you have full details of grandparents etc and maiden names of the females you can go back and retrieve birth, marriage, death and census records and print them off. You might want to give it a try.

[aghadowey]

Welcome to Rootschat but Chamberlaink hasn't been online again since a short time after making the first post.

[bobkilgour]

PS
As far as a relation being a plantation owner, you are probably right. Sri Lanka and India, along with the caribbean have lots of plantations that still have Scottish names and roots. The Scots have a great reputation of travelling and commerce, generally because of the historical way they were dealt with by the English. I am not having a go at the English, I live there and am married to one. I only make comment about the earlier periods when England were the dominant force in Europe and further afield. Its because of that history that the Scots went into medicine, education and commerce and did very well from it. They also have a great reputation in relation to Battlefield Honours for hundreds of years within the British Military.