Quoted from a page within this site:  "The Maxwell Societies - The need for people of Scottish descent to gather together has an almost unprecedented history. The first Maxwell (family) Society was founded by Mervin (Scotty) Maxwell of New Orleans at the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games near Atlanta, in the United States of America in 1964." /endquote I just wanted to add my own eccentric factoid humor: When I signed up for America Online in 1994, I once formed the Tom or Thomas Maxwell Society. I located a total of 9 AOL Members with my same first and last name who participated in monthly chat meetings.  I remember there was a Bank President, Engineer, FireFighter, Controller (me), Hockey Player and Bank Trustee (in Scotland), who participated for 4 years until I left AOL forever in 1998.  So....we Maxwells are also on the cutting edge of technology  :-P