Another Unknown Scottish Family Line

[RCAnderson]

I have been working on my family tree and decided to go ahead and do the DNA test thing from Ancestry.com that I have been hearing so much about. I have a whole new Scottish side of the family that I didn't know about.

After meeting a 2nd Cousin through the DNA test he gave me some information about my dads mother that I couldn't find any information on. With that I was able to trace that side of the family (Hume) which so far goes back to 1552 with Baron Sir George Hume, 8th Earl of Wedderburn which is my Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great Grandfather, lol.

I had no idea that side of the family existed. So apparently I have both Highland, and Lowland blood running through my veins.

The DNA test results actually surprised me. According to that test the typical Great Britain native has about 60% of their DNA from Great Britain, mine was 71%. I assumed there would be more Irish, but that was only 4%. Not much "Luck of the Irish" for me, lol.

[Mike S]

Always nice to gain more Scottish ancestry!
I am blessed with Highland, Lowland, Isles, as well as Welsh and a bit of Irish ancestry, which means that I have just about all of the bases covered.

[Tarheel]

4% Irish luck maybe all that is needed for certain occasions. Glad to hear you've met new relatives.

[Mike_Oettle]

It is always exciting to explore a new branch of the family tree. And not only do you have Highland and Lowland blood – that Lowland blood is from the Border, which was as dangerous a region to live in as the Highlands. Merely surviving there was an achievement.
Regards,
Mike

[dougle]

[Paul Munro]

Very Interesting, I might have to do that DNA testing too. After hours and hours of research on Ancestry I got back to about 1790. Munro, Reid, Hopkirk, Duncan, McDonald and Sneddon were the main families.

[RCAnderson]

Paul,

Well until I did the DNA testing I didn't have any interest really in tracing my other family lines back further than I had because I had already completed my Anderson line back to the mid 1500's in central and northern Scotland, so I didn't see a reason to delve into other family lines. When I saw the results that showed that my DNA was 71% from Great Britain and a very small percentage from the rest of Europe it didn't add up to me. What I knew of my other lines all went back to France and Germany so apparently I was missing something.

I started taking the other family lines back further and I was still getting no where really. Everything was leading to France and Germany like I already knew, then they would run into dead ends around the 1600's.

I decided to check in my Anderson line some more, but I decided to split off into my Great Grandmother on my father's side and see where that went instead of just tracing strictly the paternal Anderson side. I jaw that her name was Mary Jane Hume but that didn't ring any bells with me. I initially traced her paternal side back all the way to the mid 1500's with Sir George Hume.

That got me to start tracing more of the "side lines" back to see where the rest of my DNA was coming from since it was mainly showing to Northern Great Britain and not much of England on the map.

By the time I get back to the early 1200's all together I ended up finding Anderson/Macandrew, Douglas, Dunbar, Duncan, Home/Hume, Macdonnell, Macduff, Macgregor, Macintosh, Ross, and Wallace in the family lines on both my fathers and mothers sides. I even found one of the illegitimate daughters of James IV, King of Scotland mixed in there.

So, basically I am a Scottish mutt or "Heinz-57" made up of an assortment of Scottish families all inter-marrying, I assume to create alliances for defense or strength, which is why a lot of inter-marrying of families happened back then.

After having the DNA test done I have found several 2nd, 3rd, and 4th cousins that have already been working on their family trees that were able to fill in a lot of the information for me. I am glad I took the DNA test now. I am waiting on more extensive DNA tests now that are looking at specific markers in both the paternal and maternal lines. Those tests are a lot more expensive, but I would like to see what they show.

[McClef]

from South Wales UK!

[rtown]

Hello and Welcome

[freddie]

My paternal line is Hume but I've not researched my own ancestry yet. I'm very impressed that you've linked with the Humes of Wedderburn who were one of the most important branches from whom most of us Humes and Homes (including the Earl of Home) are descended from through 'The seven spears of Wedderburn', seven sons of the family who all married well and founded important lines of their own. One of the Humes of Wedderburn by the name of George married a daughter of Shaw of Sauchie and started the line of the Humes of Argathy, so we did have a presence in The Highlands. True To The End!