Introduction

Revised  3/24/2013

If you are new to this Blog you should start by reading these Posts:
My Starting Point
http://ulster2texas.blogspot.com/2013/01/starting-point.html
and
The American Revolution
http://ulster2texas.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-american-revolution.html

Many of the Posts are listings of Genealogical and Historical data which may or may not interest you, but some of the narrative posts will put things in context.

New Post:  Beverly Scott’s Family Story.  Beverly and I met through a Scott DNA Project. Our 67 Marker DNA differs by 4 steps, which indicates that we are cousins who share a common male ancestor sometime in the last few hundred years.

Since posting this Blog and by being active in the Scott Surname DNA Group on Facebook I have made contact with several other Scott researchers whose ancestors were in the Mercer County area of Kentucky in the late 1700's and who were in the Trigg/Christian County area of Southern Kentucky and adjacent northern Tennessee, around the Land Between the Lakes, during the early 1800's. Through shared letters, Bible records, wills and Probate records, and published local histories, we know they were related.  Some of the related families are Carr, Bibb, Shelton, Tinsley, and Futrell.  Some of these families have been associated and related by marriage since the early 1700's in York County, Pennsylvania.  

There are several purposes for this Blog:
First is to document my own Scott family history.
Second to document the histories of other families; Scotts, related families, and pioneer families who were their neighbors and friends.  We can use these parallel family histories to break through the brick walls we all encounter.
Third to explore the insight which current DNA testing brings to tracing family history.  This Blog will trace the histories of Scott families which went their separate ways three or four hundred years ago, but which carry identical or almost identical DNA. 

Along the way we hope to find common treasures; Bibles, letters, wills, contracts, family stories, which will serve to enlighten all of the researchers participating.