I'm a Scot! Omigod!

[Revoltingest]

Hey, @Revoltingest , I though you should be the first to know. Ancestry DNA has just updated my genealogical background, and it turns out that I am now exactly 50% Scot, 37% English, 5% each Ireland and Wales, and 3% Norwegian in terms of my genetic makeup.

After having discovered family for the first time in life at the ripe old age of 70, I've now managed to build up my genealogical tree to well over 200 individuals, going back to 1760. Not bad for an orphan who always thought he had some native blood in him.

Hell, I've been meeting new relations through this thing for 2 1/2 years now, and think it'll never stop! Pandora's Box be damned!

Well, that explains your being so grouchy all the time!
So...what tartan afflicts ya?

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

Well, that explains your being so grouchy all the time!
So...what tartan afflicts ya?

Genes ain't culture -- I only got the genes.

Choosing a tartan, eh? I'm gonna need something with good reds and blues. Something along the line of an Anderson maybe?

 

[Revoltingest]

Genes ain't culture -- I only got the genes.

Choosing a tartan, eh? I'm gonna need something with good reds and blues. Something along the line of an Anderson maybe?

Ya need to identify yer clan first!
But this might suite yeh....

 

[Valjean]

Probably due to two things:

- We've a significant diaspora - there are more Americans who identify as Scottish than there are people in Scotland.

- We were partners in one of the most successful and widespread of all looting cruises i.e. the British Empire.

And after a night at the pub you tend to wander off and wake up who knows where.

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

Ya need to identify yer clan first!
But this might suite yeh....

Well, there's part of my problem. I've traced ancestors to Somerset in England back to 1795, but these are all on my father's side. I have been unable to find a single person on my mother's side. I know only her maiden name (Earle, which is still my last name). Those ancestors were all Whites, and if my father had actually married my mother, I'd be a White, too. And there are White's in Scotland, I suppose. My great-grandfather, great-great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather were all named Richard W. White, and I've found 2,710 records (births, marriage, etc.) for that name. Doesn't help in the slightest.

 

[Wandering Monk]

Well, there's part of my problem. I've traced ancestors to Somerset in England back to 1795, but these are all on my father's side. I have been unable to find a single person on my mother's side. I know only her maiden name (Earle, which is still my last name). Those ancestors were all Whites, and if my father had actually married my mother, I'd be a White, too. And there are White's in Scotland, I suppose. My great-grandfather, great-great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather were all named Richard W. White, and I've found 2,710 records (births, marriage, etc.) for that name. Doesn't help in the slightest.

Been working on my ancestry very intensely for the last three years. Both grandmother's have very deep roots in colonial America. I have been trying to trace my mtDNA ancestors, but have hit a brick wall with my 4th great grandmother, a Rice whose parents moved all around southewest Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee. Some suggest Ulster Scots.

 

[Revoltingest]

Once I determined who my parents & siblings were,
that was more than enuf for me. I didn't need to
search for even more horrors.