I too have wondered what the attraction was, and I think the most were from Roxburgh/Roxburghshire. My Elliot family came in 1863, there were older Elliot families in the area when they arrived, also from the same region in Scotland. I have not been able to connect the older families to mine however. It get more interesting if you go on the Scots People site to research your family in Scotland, as many many of the same names you see in Delaware County are also in Roxburgh. Perhaps it's just a CLAN thing. Jeannie Coston

Not coming from a Delaware County family, I am probably butting in here, but this sounds like a great application for DNA genealogy. It sounds to me like the y-DNA in some of those Scots families might fill in for a lot of missing paper trails. There is a Rootsweb list called DNA-NEWBIES that is very accommodating of people without background in the subject who have a real application for the methodology. Sincerely, Geoff Brown www.betweenthelakes.com

My Scots were the Whitsons and the Scotts from Peebles, Scotland. Does anyone have a connection to mine? Beth Rupert

Nope. You are not related to my relations, but Peebles isn't too far from where my ancestors lived! vb --- Brook Lassie <brooklassie@msn.com> wrote: > My Scots were the Whitsons and the Scotts from > Peebles, Scotland. Does anyone have a connection to > mine? > > Beth Rupert > To contact list administrator send email to > nydelawa-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to NYDELAWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. http://travel.yahoo.com/