Quote Originally Posted by Ackwell
Just got my family research files from my mother. Damn! Goes down to 1300's and not a single scot!

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This is NOT meant to disparage the honor of anyone in your family, but to think that the records of some seven hundred years took into account every milkman, stable boy, viking or even adoption is quite a stretch. EVERY family has stray branches, usually unaccounted for among official records. Tracing back a family tree tells the story of the family's power and politics, but not necessarily the family's biology. If your family was in northern or western Europe or even in a city in eastern Europe for seven hundred years, it DOES have a Scot lurking in there somewhere. Be of good cheer!