And yet some people are racist or nationalistic. We're all mongrels, citizens of the world. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Before anyone starts spouting off about their ancestry they should take a through DNA test. My son discovered he was in descending order: Italian , Scottish, German, Polish, English, Norse, French and a wee bit North African.

First off those tests need to be trustworthy n not tied to the CCP! There are a few that are n that’s a no go but the one I did was neither so that’s awesome but to your story I’m glad you know your heritage n story n it’s immensely important to know one’s history n where we come from so very kool on your family story!

Nice. My name is Scottish but my heritage is mixed. I am 5th generation NZer, 1/4 Scottish (very Jacobean), 1/4 German, 1/2 mixed Danish, English & protestant Irish (yes Orange men). But I have an NZ passport and all my colonial forebears arrived in NZ under Queen Vic (some via Aussie under earlier monarchs). So what is home - NZ, & what do I have a lingering affinity to - the North West of Europe that was.

@@JohnP538 I took a test & yes I am English, Scot, German, Scandi & Nth East European (I have Prussian ancestory). The test results reinforced approximately what we already knew. I was pleased that no Latin origin appeared. Best of all my Y sub-haplogroup says North Atlantic usually Celtic (high in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittony etc).

Nice one, Chris....

I am so glad you like Edinburgh and Scotland.The best wee country in the world.

@@doddsy71 Used to be, anyway

I know.I lived there.Seen it all.Imagined even more.Scots Wha hae!

Was Wallace fighting the English.No he fought Norman King and we had little choice but to be with him. The game then as now was only about power. For the common man it mattered not who ruled taxes would still be the same who ever won. Wallace picked on the mighty King Edward 1. He was not able to do anything. When Edward died Wallace attacked his weak knee son Edward 11 a man all Europe knew as queer and weak .Wallace only then came to fight . He could never have beaten King Edward 1 a master of war like none other. His son was useless and upset everyone. Wallace did not meet the English queen not show his backside not paint his face blue .All that movie Brave heart was false . Even taht fact that it was not Wallace called Braveheart it was Robert Bruce title named years later by Scott

@@kevinjamesparr552 what a load of shite you speak, King Edward died 7-8 years after William Wallace died for a start. The story of braveheart does have things made up for Hollywood no movies are 100% factually accurate in every sense. But the point of the movie and the Scottish wars of independence are all TRUE AND FACT, William Wallace was real and was a Scottish patriot and warrior. Robert The Bruce won Scotlands freedom in 1314 at the battle of bannockburn. Read a book before you make up lies to suit your English agenda. Can’t lie about history when everyone knows it’s true. ALBA GU BRATH SCOTLAND FOREVER 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

It seems the French in Louisiana had West Indian origins/Connections (many fled the Slave up-rising in Haiti). I have paternal French creole heritage, and it seems most of the French in Caribbean came from South West France, around the Aquitaine region.

Excellent point 👉

@@MrResearcher122 similar to the Seminole people perhaps 🤔? 🇬🇧 uk

I learned French in Canada in the 1960s, I was fluent. When I first visited France and spoke French they could tell I wasn't native French, they told me I spoke an outdated form of French.

Not really connected to Scotland.

Ah brilliant! Welcome on board

Just found out I am too nice to meet you long lost cousin

I see you, dear cousin! Welcome!

Me to

And you and any other British person in Scotland will remain British after independence because Britishness does not need a Westminster government. Those who are/identify as British will remain so after independence. Just as those who are/identify as Scottish are so before independence.

Isn’t Ashington the hometown of the great “Irish” hero, the legendary Jack Charlton.

@@davidpryle3935 yes very distant relations of mine on my Dads side. Mum was Newcastle Dad is Ashington.

@@michaelgallon675 👍

And proud nay doobt. Just let us go. Not yours to give. Naen to give. Ours to TAKE BACK

And I am a Fraser, you should read up on Sir Simon Fraser The Patriot, him and Sir William Wallace was freinds and bother in arms.

@@blacrow7 thank will have a look

Me too! My Wallace Family, maternal line, is from Ballymena, Northern Ireland via Scotland. Ulster Scots, (not American Hillbillies though Bruce Fummy 😅) My paternal line is from Belfast, my grandmother was born there. The Lowland Scots Plantation of Northern Ireland is an interesting topic of discussion. Now in America, we’re all trying to return to Scotland and Ulster. How ironic! I’m in Edinburgh again right now in fact and made another journey to Antrim last week. Always love to come HOME 😊🌳

@@kimberlywallace6148 nice one ,Kimberley, Limavady native, now an adopted son of Birkenhead, best wishes from the wirral peninsula,bounded by the mersey and the Dee and the Irish sea...geography and rhyme...E...

@@blacrow7 Nigel Tranters novels are worth a look...

Very well said. If I go back far enough (mediaeval) my ancestors were french, but once in Scotland, never left. Does that mean I'm not Scottish? Hud yer wheesht man

@@nylasharper1788 go back far enough were all africans.

Yes,there are so many theories.History at that time is a bit confused.Not well documented.

I'll be doing live shows in Oz in 2023

Unreal I hope you come to Sydney,you will love it here the Aussie's just love our accent👍💯🙋😊

True.....

Linguists say that Welsh and Breton are not mutually comprehensible. The infamous Welsh Not was imposed on Victorian schoolkids my their teachers, who were themselves... Welsh.

Those same Breton onion sellers used to come to Cornwall the languages are very similar a lot of British moved to Brittany forced out by the Anglo saxons

@@andrewjewell3142 Cornish died in the 18th century when Dolly Penteith died - the last person to speak only Cornish. The largest number to speak Cornish was 50,000 in the high Middle Ages. The brother of Gerald of Wales went to Cornwall and said he heard more people speaking Flemish (a type of Dutch) than Cornish. So called modern Cornish speakers are hobbyists. They are not connected to original Cornish speakers. The Johnny Onions spoke to English speakers. Cornwall was a founding county of England, as Alfred fought with Cornish soldiers against Guthrum.

@@Joanna-il2ur The native speakers are hobbyists aye? You must do more research as their are now children who have started to be brought up speaking cornish and English, diminishing cultures isn't a cool as you think it is

@@calumpatrick319 There are no native speakers of Cornish. It’s a dead language, like Manx. The UN thinks Cornish is long dead. Your name appears to be Irish anyway. It reminds me of one time in Dublin when a guide was asked by a Dutch delegate if she spoke Irish. ‘Sure, we have to learn it at school but nobody speaks it cos there no benefit.’ Go back to Synge in Connemara before WWI, when greeted a sailor in Irish and the man answered him in English. Through English he’d travel the world, worked in New York, the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and many other places. ‘And if I just spoke Irish, where would I have been? Right here!’

Of course

Ah, thanks Dean

Glad you think so!

As an Englishman, i cannot disagree with your comment

They'd hopefully work that out from my kilt video😜

@@ScotlandHistoryTours love your videos mate - it gets more complicated the further back you go! Weren’t the invading Normans actually Vikings?

Smelly git😂

Sounds like you've been in the Gilmore building of Glasgow University in the early 1990s where a notable bit of graffiti matched your comment

@@neiloflongbeck5705 funnily I haven't, but what a coincidence. It seems there's no room in the lexicon for Gaelic, but room for garlic.

@@paulvinova just like gullible.

Perfect!

Thanks, you too!

Seconded

Our pleasure!

Woe! so interesting. Gordon Ramsay. Interesting. Wonder if the connection is to the Ramsays.

Ramsays of Egypt*

@@Unanswerable - Yes, E-V22 haplogroup. My son is chef, like Gordon. We have a DNA match from Canada named Graham Gordon Ramsay.

E is Caucasian in origin. It was brought into North Africa , and mixed into the Bantu population from the West(sub Saharan),via Caucasians. Edit:Adolf was E as was Einstein. E entered into Europe with its Caucasians migrating out of the Middle East and into Europe. Interesting enough, the 18th dynasty was Haplo R.

Wow, thank you!

An adopted son of Birkenhead...

My pleasure!

Thanks for that

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Thanks Mark

Everyone is a mongrel, not a single people on the planet married within its own group since Homo Sapiens existed. The sooner people quit with "purity" bs the better.

By mongrel do you mean genetically identical North Western Europeans?

Mixed. Modern NW Europeans are mixed, as are Africans, East Asians and everyone else on the planet, and that's neither good nor bad, it is what it is.

Yay

😜 Aye the dafties can keep shouting in the desert

@@ScotlandHistoryTours speaking of...I,ve been mistaken for a visiting Rabbi in Harvard yard, a long lost Iraqi relative, an Iranian exile , a Jordanian thought I have relatives in Jordan...basically..I,m going to check this out...a native of Limavady now an adopted son of Birkenhead...seemingly not...the plot thins....

Welcome aboard

I just focus on the Scots😜😜

You sound American for sure, someone who claims to have learnt about Braveheart before the production film of Mad Mel the Ozzy expat of Yankville New York, yet still thinks the name of 'Braveheart' refers to Wallace instead of Robert I of Scots, says it all. 'True history' clearly isn't an inclination of yours evidently.

The learning process continues…

@@gdavew63 I,m learning all the time...my folk are all over the place...deported to the west Indies, Australia...keep learning...E...

Much appreciated. One day we'll get it right... Lots of help from Matt Ward my videographer

@@ScotlandHistoryTours too modest by far...a modern day Bard...welcome, certainly at Clabby Towers....

Hey Jenny, I always send folk to the shop where there's a translation on the product page. That way, even if they don't buy, they may come back ukposts.info/the/mSwBBdhuJ39zaA437NaeXA.htmlstore

Thank you very much for your prompt response to my query. I went to the link and found my answer... I watched some of the other stories as well. In time I will watch the rest of them, learning from each one. The piper, John McGregor story gave me the goosebumps and now I know a bit more about you and how you got into making UKposts stories. I wish you a good day as well. Be Blessed Sir. Sincerely from New Mexico with love, of knowledge, seize the day. J. L. Skeen

You are right about the Anglo-Saxon invasion myth, there is no real evidence for an invasion, well apart from what happened in modern-day Kent a long time after the Romans had left, the Kits Coty massacre was probably more of a power struggle however, elsewhere what there is evidence of is two communities living it seems peacefully together, for example in Cambridgeshire they have found archaeological evidence from both Saxon and Brythonic villages both near each other and from the same time period, no evidence of destruction from that time. The Anglo-Saxon invasion myth was put about by the Victorians to bolster Queen Victorias Germanic roots, also these people were behind the Boudicca statue in London which they called Boudicea (they couldn't even get that right!). But then as you have pointed out groups like the Belgae and Parisi were really Gauls.

@Reinhard Absolute rubbish! DNA is extremely misleading unless you are digging up masses (10,000s) of 'Anglo-Saxon graves. The Romans were here for 400 years and left no DNA trace in the population, however, Brittania was garrisoned by Batvian Auxillary legions and their families, who were originally from the area around present-day Eindhoven. Then you have the fact that during the Dark ages Northumbria and Anglia were part of Danelaw. People who live in Somerset around the Wookey Hole area have DNA very similar to the Wookey Hole man, they are the oldest human remains, but way older than the Gaulish invaders, which people want to call Celtic

@Reinhard Yes. Stories we grew up with- well, turned out to be true and not myths.

Aye, a few have said it was complex. I'll need to think of that going forward

@UCSod4AI5j9iuuqQ-TEbtQQg Euro-centric assumption that does not take into account the evolving time frame of immigration to this Country. I am second generation. I grew up in th50/60's with Immigrants, 1st generation, 2cd generation etc. The English of your generation is a "evolution" as well. Hardly reconciled with "Olde English" n'est-ce pas? What most Europeans do not understand about Americans is our long suffering nature towards Euro-centric generalities and prejudice. Cheers

What most Americans often struggle to understand is that they are American by not only native nationality, but also of American heritage and American ethnicity, and yes, even American ancestry to a significant enough degree, as most Yanks have American parents, and your parents are your closest and most related ancestors (no other ancestor will be as closely related to you as your parents), then each generation further back you go, the genetic similarity diminishes, but regardless, it does not form ethnicity and does not carry nationality either. The proto-Yank Doodles (Columbo era 1492 Americans) have existed since the medieval ages as a distinct ethnic group within the Americas as home steaders and farmers - that's 115 years before the first British peoples came to the Americas to set up a group of 13 small coastal colonies on the Eastern shoreline for the purposes of establishing interests of international commerce and trade links - they would also trade with the Amerindian tribes of the Western frontier prior to the time of Tecumseh and General Brock. Americans often don't understand the meanings of the words they use, Yanks like Noah Webster, whom created the early Americanised form of the English language, eventually went on to create a contradictory hodge podge mess of a language, as such you end up with people confusing 'race' and 'ethnicity' as interchangeable terms, and 'citizenry' (status) and 'nationality' (where one is natively born to, an unseverable motherland) being merged to mean the same thing when they are not. Such an affliction has resultantly harmed the modern American identity, many Yanks are now in a process of self-deracination with a characteristic proneness to highjacking foreign identities over their own, waxing lyrical about 'being related to foreign royalty', despite Yanks actually being the least royal people in reality, even warring against the Kingdoms of Scotland & England and the Principality of Wales in order to define and re-emphasise the distinct American ethnic Yank identity. Many later Americans were also either common people who sought to improve their prospects where they could not get it where they were originally from - well off people and those of the upper class such as nobility, aristocracy and royalty etc generally didn't leave their homeland, and it was mostly the offspring of upper classes that survived in a time of higher mortality rates, so most people today from a certain nation will be related to royalty, aristocracy or nobility to some degree further back by the law of averages, Americans however are an exception, many later Americans also started as deported criminals who even though were of generally lower of IQ did eventually find success in America to some degree where they would have struggled elsewhere, all these things came to later define Americans especially. All these things contributed to the Yanks as they are today as a distinct ethnic group forged by their own seperate national history that no other nation of peoples were forged by, including 'Manifest Destiny' and the Civil war of the 1860s following the 1815 'Treaty of Ghent' right after the 'War of 1812' which continued on from the initial American declaration of 1776.

@@plasticpaddy985 We have a saying here. "Baffle them with bullshit". Lots of words there, same outcome. What most Europeans do not understand about Americans is our long suffering nature towards Euro-centric generalities and prejudice. There is no need to prove the point. Cheers

@@slydermartin6008 Ah yes, this is quite a predictable and characteristic responce from an American, volume of text takes greater precedence for the Yank breed than the actual veracity of the words themselves, if you didn't know any better, you'd figure the average ethnic Yank greatly suffered from dyslexia at far higher proportions to other nationalities/ethnicities. You will remain ignorant as a breed as your inclinations do not extend to better your understanding based on the critiques but fair and valid assessments levelled at you as a distinct ethnicity of a distinct nation. The lack of intellectualism to properly assess and maintain a healthy degree of introspection for oneself not only merely as a collective, but as an individual also, is lost on the common Yank Doodle.

Cheers Scott

Bruce if you are ever up this way could you please do history on Elgin Moray . Thank s Scott

i agree wholeheartedly , my ancestors were Norman hence the surname but im Aberdonian and my family has been around Aberdeen for hundreds of years

@@bgray1009 dunno where to start....except to say, Bruce has created a great Caledonian community

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I try

Oh no, no, no

That's it...back into the dressing up box with the wig and the woad....

Of course. I mentioned them in my video about Lord Strathcona

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Welcome aboard!

😜 Still worth a joke though

As per everything in politics (and history), people like to oversimplify and to put people into categories. Reality is more complicated….

@@ScotlandHistoryTours 😂😆🤣👏👏👍👍🧟‍♂️

To be fair Bruce was drawing a correlation between the Union flag in the guys picture and the Rangers support. Something Rangers do with their kit colours alone! On a personal level I've met many lovely Rangers fans for independence on marches and I imagine Bruce is aware of them too. Mind you, they are a small minority!

Please stop going Ibrox then we don’t want or need you. How you can support a political party that wants to damage the football club you claim to support.

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Brilliant

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@@ScotlandHistoryTours Keep up the great work mate absolutely smashing it

Wow! 😲 Now that I did not expect

The Borg that is Scottish history Tours, has assimilated Amanda....in a good way...