In the first part of this exclusive series by The Scotsman, Alison Campsie speaks to Lorna Kinnaird, who is reuniting people all over the world with their Scottish ancestors and family stories.

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 ...

David Dobson is a prolific writer who has produced dozens of books on Scotland’s genealogical sources and Scots who migrated elsewhere. Now, he has a new one — “Scottish Genealogy, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.