Middle TN Scots

**Joshua** · 26th November 11, 06:55 PM

Originally Posted by AndrewtheScot

How common was this tie as I have both Scottish and German ancestry.

Very common, in most of the Appalacians as well. I would say that at least 25% of my father's ancestry is German, the remainder of which being a smattering of mostly Welsh, some Scottish, and a teeny bit of Cherokee. His people hailed from Southeastern Ohio and Western NC. My mothers side of the family hasn't turned up any German roots, however they hailed from the same areas, Scottish, Irish, and English (in that order).

**macwilkin** · 26th November 11, 07:59 PM

Originally Posted by Joshua

Very common, in most of the Appalacians as well. I would say that at least 25% of my father's ancestry is German, the remainder of which being a smattering of mostly Welsh, some Scottish, and a teeny bit of Cherokee. His people hailed from Southeastern Ohio and Western NC. My mothers side of the family hasn't turned up any German roots, however they hailed from the same areas, Scottish, Irish, and English (in that order).

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The Ulster Scots and Pennsylvania Germans both followed the Great Wagon Road down the Appalachians into Western Virginia and the Carolina backcountry before pushing West through the Cumberland Gap (thanks to Dr. Walker and Daniel Boone) into Kentucky and Tennessee. Others pushed west from Pennsylvania directly into the Ohio Country; some of my Scottish ancestors followed this route and ended up in a colony of Scots in SE Iowa in the 1840s, where they intermarried with German immigrants.

T.

**Joshua** · 26th November 11, 09:16 PM

Originally Posted by cajunscot

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The Ulster Scots and Pennsylvania Germans both followed the Great Wagon Road down the Appalachians into Western Virginia and the Carolina backcountry before pushing West through the Cumberland Gap (thanks to Dr. Walker and Daniel Boone) into Kentucky and Tennessee. Others pushed west from Pennsylvania directly into the Ohio Country; some of my Scottish ancestors followed this route and ended up in a colony of Scots in SE Iowa in the 1840s, where they intermarried with German immigrants.

T.

Oddly enough the only ancestors I have that don't predate the American revolutionary war are also the strongest Scottish ties, via the Bruces of South Carolina... the only ancestors I have that didn't come from Ohio or NC.