You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. BRAD MCFADDEN and his English cocker spaniel Simmy explore the property on ...

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 ...

Like more than 27 million other Americans (myself included), they are descendants of Scots-Irish (or Scotch-Irish) immigrants to the United States. For years, I mistakenly assumed that the term ...

A patronymic surname is one that is derived from a person’s father’s first name. At some point in history many patronymic surnames were adopted as permanent, inherited surnames, and so they survive ...

Roots of 50,000 Irish and British last names were uncovered as part of the “The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland” published in 2016. A name can tell you a lot about a person, ...