U.S. President Donald Trump is visiting Scotland this week, returning to the country where his mother was born and raised.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...