About 9.2 million Americans claim Scottish descent. When speaking of Scottish ancestry, it is helpful to separate the population into Highlanders, Lowlanders, and the Scots-Irish, as each group has a ...

He expressed his gratitude to his Scottish fans, and he reminisced, saying, “I am grateful for every fan that turns up to see me perform, but I will always remember being in Scotland in 2017; it ...

MY FATHER AND I were the only people eating in the dining room of Kilravock Castle in the Scottish Highlands—but we were hardly alone. The cream-papered walls were hung with portraits of former ...

As colleagues in the University’s Lee College, Daniel Maxwell, MPA and Virginia Maxwell, D. Phil, typically connect while on or near campus in Connecticut. Recently, they met across the pond in ...

When the genealogy company Ancestry released the latest update to its “ethnicity estimates” last month, a lot of people suddenly became more Scottish. Since 2012, more than 18 million people ...

ANCESTRY: This year the festival will welcome the Tennessee Valley Scottish Society and a few Scottish clans to provide ancestry information and connect people to their own Scottish clans WHEN ...

A recent survey from VisitScotland, the country’s tourism organisation, found that 70% of long-haul visitors claimed Scottish ancestry and 34% cited it as a motivating factor for their visit.

"Scottish genealogy is a high profile, popular subject, and it gets no bigger than Elvis Presley," Morrison said. He said Andrew Presley had lived through the Jacobite rebellion, ...

WINTER SPRINGS — America may be called a melting pot, but for those of Scottish ancestry and their fans, Saturday was a day to share the joy of being different.Amid a sea of colorful kilts ...