Your Scottish Genealogy
Who knows where your search for your Scottish roots will take you? As you trace your Scottish family history you will discover fascinating clues about the lives of your Scottish ancestors and find yourself wanting to know more about the cultural and economic history of Scotland.
Even native Scots who have begun their genealogical journey to connect with their past will now find themselves visiting the parts of Scotland, where their ancestors lived. What was life like for them? Where did they live—
in a Hebridean black house,
a highland castle,
or a Glasgow tenement?
How did they earn a living? Were they land owners or farm servants? Were they lawyers, doctors, fishermen or coal miners? Were they Highland crofters driven from the land? Did a sense of adventure attract them to opportunities in the new world or did poverty and lack of opportunity drive them overseas? Between the mid 18th and mid 19th centuries, the Highland Clearances, when Highlanders were evicted from their crofts by the land-owning lairds,
there was a mass exodus of Scots who emigrated to the US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and many other parts of the world. Many went on to win fame and fortune, others simply a better life. Now, generations later, every year, thousands of the Scottish diaspora visit Scotland to connect with the land of their ancestors, a land of beautiful mountains, glens and historic cities.
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