Scottish ancestry ?

[gamekeeper]

or just an interest in history and black powder warfare.

https://youtu.be/Q1kdBDNnd3U

[Old Savage]

Very interesting, MacAllister here.

[bmtshooter]

I like listening to those guys talk. Must be in my McAnelly genes.

The same guy has a video on the wearing of the great kilt. It is very enlightening.

[Ysabel Kid]

Turns out I do - a significant amount too!

Thanks for sharing John!

[Griff]

Myself as well... McKen

[765x53]

As a White American, I have the same connection to Europe as black Americans have to Africa. Zero.

[piller]

Recent DNA tests, 2 of them, said I have 0% Irish. 85% Great Britain/Scotland/Wales in 1 test, 87% in the other. 3 to 7% Italian, and same percent Jewish. Rest is from around Yugoslavia/Romania. Family names and oral history seem to be somewhat open to speculation.
Not sure why I like things that go boom so much.

[Twodot]

about the only Scottish in my blood came out of a bottle
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[Grizz]

yup, got some Scots in the recipe . . .

[Rockrat]

1/8th scottish. Scott clan

[marlinman93]

My dad's side is 100% Germans from Ukraine. (Russia back then) My mom's side is a mixture of English, Scottish, Irish, and some Scandinavian too. Likely on the Plunkett, Norton, or King ancestry I'm guessing.

[JOG]

Robert E. Lee's favorite solders were Scotch and Irish!
Johnny

[Old Savage]

Scotch Irish is a particular group.

[765x53]

I'm White. My people were here before the United States existed. That makes me indigenous. I was borne here. That makes me American native.

[Bruce Scott]

My paternal great grandparents were from Montrose in Forfarshire (now Angus) - they came to Australia in the 1850s

[buckeyeshooter]

Recent DNA tests, 2 of them, said I have 0% Irish. 85% Great Britain/Scotland/Wales in 1 test, 87% in the other. 3 to 7% Italian, and same percent Jewish. Rest is from around Yugoslavia/Romania. Family names and oral history seem to be somewhat open to speculation.
Not sure why I like things that go boom so much.

My brother ran our family DNA. I was very surprised 39% Scotland, 30% England NE Europe, 15% Sweden and Denmark, 7% Norway, 4% Wales,3% German and 2% Irish.
I Brit I was working with ran the family name and came up with the family crest (was correct as my father had the same one in his office) and he was able to get the ancestry down to the clan and area in Scotland. So, turns out I am a highlander.

[765x53]

It's a mystery why anyone would wish to claim affinity for a place that his predecessors fled.

[Grizz]

Scotch Irish is a particular group.

I'm there. . . . with 51% Scandinavian so an interesting narrative . . .


we have some broken links, I suspect the Revolution, or 1812, or unCivil War burned those records to the ground. . .

we're hoping someone will back-track us and connect the dots . . .

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[Old Savage]

Just a note on the DNA, individuals in a family usually have different mixes of DNA. In fact there can be parts they don’t share.

[Grizz]

It's a mystery why anyone would wish to claim affinity for a place that his predecessors fled.

It isn't the place as much as the people of that place.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/0 ... niversity/

There is a concerted movement to remove and erase our history. This amounts to assassination of our tribes and societies, and is the spawn of the worst scum of humanity...... the people who hate people also hate God.

Screenshot 2023-06-04 114254-erasing the English.png

I have knowledge of ancestors going back about a thousand years. It's an accident of history, but it is the DNA that creates the network....

Peoples move for other causes than war and crime. Opportunity is one of them. Curiosity is another. Preserving the memories preserves the history. Some people think this is worth while.

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grizz

[marlinman93]

It's a mystery why anyone would wish to claim affinity for a place that his predecessors fled.

Not everyone "flees" from somewhere. Some people have always been adventurous, and couldn't put down roots for long before the wanderlust in them drove them to the next adventure. I think that was far more prevalent a couple hundred years ago when there was a lot of the world, and the US that was still untamed.
My ancestors on my dad's side did indeed flee SW Russia because in the mid to late 1880's any German living in SW Russia was being persecuted, or even killed. So anyplace was going to be better than where they were. On my mom's side my grandfather fought in the American Revolution, and after we won our freedom, he packed up his family in Virginia, and headed to the new frontier in what is today Illinois. Then after less than a decade they moved further West, and eventually my heirs packed up in 1842 and headed to Oregon country. It appears the urge to settle new land was always in their DNA, and I doubt any move was ever done because they were running from anything. We can trace mom's side to shortly after the pilgrims arrived here, as they came less than 3 yrs. later and settled in the same area in Massachusetts in 1622.

[buckeyeshooter]

Just a note on the DNA, individuals in a family usually have different mixes of DNA. In fact there can be parts they don’t share.

I did not know that. So, I might be a bit different.

[Grizz]

Just a note on the DNA, individuals in a family usually have different mixes of DNA. In fact there can be parts they don’t share.

I did not know that. So, I might be a bit different.

Isn't everyone a bit different? LOL It's a tangled web when we venture into our Scottish kin . . . And it is worth mentioning that our Scots kin are all descended from larger people groups, who never heard of "Scotland" or "England", before barbed wire fences [metaphorically] controlled migrations... and to remember that we are all related to Noah's family, and Adam, way back. lots of permutations and combinations in the scroll

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[1894cfan]

I hate to think what the CCP is doing with all that DNA info they collected during the so called pandemic!

[Old Savage]

Adam as the only progenitor is a misreading of what “original” texts we have.