My father is Scottish and his family is from Scotland too; I was always curious about my mother’s side of the family; she’s British; so I decided to create her family tree and find her ancestors for her and very surprisingly, her ancestors were Scottish! From Forfarshire, Angus, Arbroath, Longforgan, Perth; Dating back to the 1500/1600’s! I’m British myself, being born and bred in Greater London, I wouldn’t necessarily say I’m “half Scottish” I would say I’m British with Scottish Heritage and Roots, my father made sure we knew our heritage though, he was very strong headed that me and my siblings would grew up with what he grew up with in Scotland; celebrating and joining on Scottish traditions and cultural events❤️ we celebrate burns night, he would cook up mince and Tatties for us, haggis, shortbread, Scottish tablet, the works! I’m very proud of my heritage, I haven’t had the upmost privilege of visiting Scotland yet but I’m hoping I’ll do soon with my mother❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I wish that the DNA test had Scottish as a separate category from English/British. Like the Irish has a separate category. Thank you for this information. I appreciate it.

I so agree with you about walking where our ancestors walked. I have wanted to go to Scotland ever since I was a young child, and I never knew why, until about 2 yrs ago when I found an ancestor who was a Scotsman. I've always wanted to learn to play bagpipes, and now I know why. The country and my ancestors are calling me, but I'n afraid I won't be able to make it happen financially. Tis a shame. I was recently notified by Family Search that King James of Scotland, the IV, is my 12th gr grandfather. So yes, there is a strong desire to walk where they walked, see the heather, the beautiful country side, the old homes, etc.I'd like to see the old papers, marriages, christening certificates, etc and get copies if possible. Longing for home.............

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Wow, this was brilliant!!

Great quick ideas! I love this lady. And I do love being Scottish! My DNA came back with very little Great Britain but a lot of Scandinavian and Irish...that is my Scottish!

Thanks for the nice video ! I luckily have not the most commun Scottish surname and it helped my a lot building my family tree. I am a Farquharson. :D

I adore this video ❤😍✨

Very interesting!

Being Scottish means something. It's great! It's not just about the DNA, the birth place or the parentage. It's not about nationalism or division. It's a way of being. A mindset that sees through the divisory walls that society constructs. It's about being yourself while accepting others and working towards the common good. It's about coming together and challenging the corporate puppets that perpetuate the never ending cycle of war and greed. The Scots are a genuine, caring, fiery, humorous and intelligent people who have given the world so much......just don't piss us off or else!!!! Refugees, power and rich, religious and atheist, black and white, gay and straight..all are welcome to this wonderful, beautiful nation....all are welcome to engage in the conversation...and all are welcome to adopt a Scottish perspective and start to help steer this world in a new direction! It may appear a strange juxtaposition, but by being more Scottish, you become less concerned with nation and division, and more interested in working together as one humanity towards a future of global equality and peace. While many will tar the Scots with the imperialist brush historically, please note that the Scots went forward and gave to the world while the others divided, conquered and took. The benefits the Scots reaped was re-invested into future generations, not hoarded by royals and gentry. There is no denying Scotland had it's fair share of geed ridden individuals who sold out their country and people. But there wrongs will be put right in time. There's no doubt that past Scots where merciless in their occupation of lands and treatment of others, such as in Ulster. But the Irish migration to Scotland that resulted enriched the community and diluted the air of superiority still seen in small sections of Scottish society. We are not perfect and acknowledge this. We have a long way to go and accept the challenge. We are Scots-minded and will overcome the madness that engulfs the world, starting squarely with the faceless limpets that leech in the corridors of Westminster. Adopt a Scottish perspective and be proud of your land and your people, but also recognise that borders, races, religions and sexuality are simply illusory barriers that you have allowed your mind to create. Be proud of what you have contributed to the world as a person and a nation - don't let your bank balance be the measure of your success as you lie on your death bed reflecting on a worthy life or not. We are possibly the universes most complicated and greatest creation - billions of unique individuals who share this tiny planet spinning through an almost infinite universe. Don't let them fool you into sending our sons and daughters off to kill others sons and daughters in foreign battlefields. Take off the polarising shades, see through the bullshit and think Scottish!

On Scotland's People most of the old parish records are for the Church of Scotland but you can also choose either Catholic records of other churches.

I was 83% Great Britain but as I looked into the migration paths, most of my ancestors came from Scotland rather than England.

I would love to get there for my Anderson and McGillivray. I know the McGillivray's came from Iona.

I have 30% Irish and 68% Scottish DNA. I have always been told by a few of my maternal reletives that some of my ancestors originated in Scotland. The one issue I have with tracing my ancestors back to Scotland is that being from Northern Ireland, the furthest I have have been able to trace my ancestors back is around 1670-1680s in Ulster, thanks to grave headstones and one ancestor in the mid to late 1800s who traced his family genealgy back generations and left lots of documents and writings which really helped me figure out that side of the family. That is on my maternal side. My dads family is even more of a mystery since there is no father listed on the birth record of my grandfather. I have pretty much looked at a lot of records including Title Applotments, subscribers to books, newspapers, 1851 Irish Census extracts (most that exist don't have my ancestors mentioned) and immigration records for family who left Ireland helped a little too but not much. So I am stumped and can't go back any further than the 1670s since birth and death records in Ireland started in 1864, marriage certificates from 1840 onwards and looking at other records like agricultural censuses hasn't really helped me find any more new information besides what I have already known so I feel a bit stumped.

28% Scottish, at least 2 of my Scottish immigrants were captured at the Battle of Worcester and sent to American Colonies. 1 came as a fishmonger before the Mayflower Pilgrims arrived but didn't actually settle here until 3 years after the Pilgrims. Still researching the others.

I am Scottish from my mother's side . I want to find out more .

7:02 ...Best advise ever from this phenomenal and well informed lady. I was in the USA a few years back with my sons on holiday, when asked my the lady in the tourist office where we were from, I told her Scotland. "Oh thats in England" the lady replied, much to the horror of my young sons :)

my main family surnames are stuart, alexander, white, smillie, clark and aitken

Just starting my search. I’m 36% Scottish and my family name is Sawers

I just got my results and it says 48% Scottish!! I didn’t think there was any Scottish let alone that high of a percentage.

When I did my true ancestry (goes deeper into ancient ancestry) after ancestry, I found a DNA match that said Royalty match: clan Macdonald ancestral seat: finlaggan castle. Can anyone tell me more about this?

My dad 's family name was originally Lambroughton which is a specifically Ayrshire name. Most of the branches Anglicised it to Lamberton although there is a Canadian branch who still use it. As far back as records can be found we have been Scotland and since Lambroughton is such an area specific name and quite rare we can take a leap of faith back th 1538 when a,Robert and Thomas Lambrochtoune were mentioned in Scottish Record Society publi she'd a transcription of The Register of the Great Seal. A distant American cousin found me on Facebook a couple of years ago. Our last COMMON ancestor lived about 400 years ago.

My DNA shows that I highly likely have realitives in Glasgow, which should be correct as my Paternal Great Great Grandfather Bell emigrated from Paisley to Philadelphia in 1859, even though he was born in Ulster in 1841. According to my Great Aunt, her Grandmother had told her that her Grandfather had moved BACK to Scotland about age 12 to live with relatives there before coming to America. I have valid information of him having joined the Loyal Lilly Lodge of the Order of Orange in Paisley, where he learned his trade. He was a tailor who began working on trans Atlantic ships so he could work off his cost to arrive in America as a "free man". I was baptized Presbyterian. On my Paternal side my Grandmother 's maiden name was McLaughlin and my Great Grandmothers maiden name was McVey. My Great Grandmother Frances McVey Bell's Grandmother was a Ross. My DNA also indicates highly likely British relatives as well which also makes sense since Bell is a Borders name and quite possibly ended up in Ulster for that reason. I also have on my Paternal side a Great Great Grandmother whose maiden name was McClarigan with red hair and a temper to match, my Paternal Grandmother was terrified of her Maternal Grandmother.

My maternal grandparents were Lutheran and of scots irish, irish, and English decent

the russell family clan was big in what part of scotland?

I am have been stuck for months with my family history research at my ancestor John McKenney born circa 1625 in Scotland (some people say isle of skye some say argyll some say glasgow). No definite answers on him prior to his arrival in Scarborough, Maine, US after the battle of Worcester when he became a Scottish Prisoner of War & shipped aboard the John & Sarah 1651 to New England & worked off his servitude. Any advice on where to dig deeper in the 1600s? Some have linked him to an Alexander Mackenzie/mckenney born 1611 Fearn Scotland but I can't find any real evidence of that.

I’m half Scottish from my mom, my dad was mixed with Ilocano/Chinese/Spanish/Irish. So I’m half mutt, lol! But I’ve been able to track my Scottish side to the 1700’s. Maybe further if I can go to California and look at my aunt’s family tree book. I’ve also done an ancestry DNA test and have found over 1,000 relatives, almost all of them are of Irish/Scottish descent or mixed with other European ethnic backgrounds. Funny you mentioned Campbell because my maternal Great Great Grandparents we’re Campbell’s! There is also Garlic, Maynard & Marsh. I just can’t figure out where in Scotland they originated from before going to America hundreds of years ago. Does it help that I’m related to the Presley’s? Well didn’t know that I was until the DNA test.

Being adopted, I have two names: Ragsdale, Ayers, Cromeenes, Nanney, Vincent

Im an Erskine from my redheaded grandmothers side.

Some Scottish soldiers fought in a war and went to the Netherlands. I'm a descendant of one of them. Mine is called William Hutchison (without an n)

I have Scottish ancestory and am curious how to research my ancestors from Scotland

i did my dna test i have 6% scotland does this mean anything , oh is not enough ??

I just got my test back. I'm 1/4 Scottish. The name in my tree is McDowell. I can't find the records IN Scotland.

Heavens I found out I’m 34% Scottish 36% Irish 20% Scandinavian.

My dna kit says I'm 20% scottish and 3% irish pretty cool, while 58% of me is British

This is great! But I don't know about the Midlothian part, I live there it's called Midlothian. Although the postcode starts the same as Edinburgh.

Clan Armstrong. 😉

Hi this first time I hread this Lady is very remarkable my children the last name Stewart and according to the Scotland map in the 1700 there a Stewart clan south of. Edinboro and I’m just wondering are there Scottish,the lineage all the way back but we’ve come to a dead end at 1700, My Son as trace it back to a Mr John James Longhutter Stewart that is his great-great -greatfathers and we found his death certificate in 1769 the of his death, if anyone may have information on the Stewart clan, please let us know we are need of information thank you

I traced my surname back into Scotland and I couldn't have been so proud.

Would love to find out about one of my ancestors Samuel judkins 1556 Glasgow Lanarkshire his son was joel judkins his grandson was Job judkins job came to America in 1630s and married Thomas Dudley's daughter Thomas was Barron Roger Dudley's only son Dudley castle. And the second governor of Massachusetts. I'm actually a judkins descended from job and Sara Ann Dudley

My dad's surname is Laird. I am a Laird. For years my family ( dad's side) said we are Irish... recently my mom told me that my dad's aunt told her we aren't Irish but Scottish... I asked someone on a facebook ancestry page where the first Lairds came from and she told me Northern Ireland... so I am confused as to whether I am Irish, Scottish or both. How can I find this out? Please, I need to know who I am.

every time Ancestry does an update I get more Scottish lol

I have 22 % Scottish ethnicity but I have no Scottish people that I'm aware of this is my 2nd largest ethnicity. Where do I go from here?

My surname is Anderson im from Liverpool England my Grandad grandparents came down from the Aberdeenshire between 1879-81 to Liverpool

I am swedish. Have one scottish ancestor named Hans Stuart from Edinburgh. That I know.

Sir Alexander Nathan Baker, He is my 10th Great Grandfather.

I'm english from england from my Dads side of the family name is Irish and from my mum's side is Scottish from the macdonald clan my grandad is Scottish we have roots with somerled from the Norse Gaelic Lord of the island it's so weird but I'm pagan

It's weird im a Englishman and my granddad is Scottish from the macdonald clan and that's my mum's father and my dad's is english and my mum is born here and my dad told me we have a Irish family name they come over

im so lucky my family is the armstrongs yes jonnie armstrong one the great grandfathers from my dads side iv been working on my family history man we irish have the most long history there

Clan Livingston(e)

I got 68% Irish and Scotland (Ulster Ireland, North Midlands and Central and Northeast Scotland) 32% England, Wales, and Northwestern Europe

Hello 😊 we got back to King Robert the Bruce 🎉

I found out I have scottish ancestry I'm not happy or sad

My last name is Scott lol

My maiden name is Kirkland, if you are a Kirkland, reply!

Dodge , we left there in the 1600s.

My father is from Scotland, but kept his past a secret, we have never met any of his family and he is now dead.Wish I knew how to meet someone from his side of the family.

My name Is Wallace I guess I'm Scottish

My last name is Jackson

First residents of New Scotland, bloodline traced back to the direct bloodline of Robert the Bruce and Constantine of Denmark. How can this be possible, the real King of England is named Michael and he lives in Australia, wow hmm im not sure this can be true with my family.

Guess I’m 26% Scottish 25% British but 5% Irish

She says The whole county of Midlothian is NOW EDINBURGH!!! No its not - i live in Midlothian - dont know what shes on about there

I have 1% frome great britain lol

i'm venezueland and apparently I have 7% Scottish dna but no way to trace it lol help! xD btw sorry for my bad english c:

What some people fail to realize in researching their ancestry, especially "Scottish", is that the DNA goes back beyond the notions of "Scotland" or "England". One of my daughters whose mother is Breton (born and raised and still living there in the Tregor region), had a DNA test done last year. On my side it was Scottish and English. Her mothers side was situated in modern southern Scotland. The Britons migrated to what is now southern England and then over to what is now "Brittany:" There was no Scotland or England or Brittany 1500 years ago. Only post Roman Britain and Armorica. DNA goes back beyond modern "national" borders.

I'm part Campbell. Damnit.

Midlothian and Edinburgh are separate

Clan Mackenzie

They are vikings

I got a bunch of Scottish dna. On further examination half of that is of nordic origin.

Thank fk my mum had a rare last name