This is a follow-up on the feature we did in this Notebook column of the heart-rending story of Scottish born Janet Steed Kerr stumbling on the fact that her great grandfather was an adventurous young black Bermudian seafarer. He was Charles William Dowding Steed.Steed was born in Hamilton Parish not many years after the Emancipation of Slavery. He settled in Leith, Scotland and married a white Scottish woman who bore him ten children. Charles was tragically killed while working in a Leith dockyard, leaving a host of Scottish descendants totally unaware of their many cousins in Bermuda, one of whom is Beldwin Smith.(We want to set the record straight here and take responsibility for erroneously stating that St.Clair (Brinky) Tucker was also a cousin, when in fact he has no genetic link, only happens to have become a best friend of both Janet and her first cousin Rosemary Steed)Janet at age 48, said it was one of the happiest days of her life while on a cruise to Bermuda with her husband, proudly learning of her Bermuda roots. That was in 2006. It answered many questions about her pretty complexion though different from her contemporaries, none of her elders would discuss, causing her to grow up with a chip on her shoulder.Also, Janet did not know until she came to Bermuda that her first cousin Rosemary Steed, was also born in in Leith in 1957. Janet’s family moved to another town when she was nine; and the two grew up not knowing about each other until this writer showed Janet a story he had done on Rosemary months earlier. At that time Rosemary was engrossed in tracing her roots for another reason.To cut a long story short, Janet’s brother John Hardie, a prominent Scottish Freemason has become only the third of member of the Scottish Steed clan to visit Bermuda. He arrived on Monday with his wife Elizabeth. John had met cousin Beldwin Smith at a banquet of the Grand Lodge of Scotland in Edinburgh which Beldwin has represented Bermuda and his Somers Isle Lodge of Hog Bay, Sandys Parish, for the past nine years.John’s visit is as much roots connected as it is Masonicly. He is the Wor. Master of St. Clair Edinburgh Lodge No. 349 in Scotland, and is due to serve a third term in May. A former Master of that lodge is W.B. Allan Maitland, who has had extended connections with Lodge Somers Isle, No. 1503.His sister, Scottish-born Elizabeth Maitland Adderley is married to retired Bermudian boat builder Herbie Adderley of Pembroke.