Jack B Loc: Mount Pleasant, SC

Hope no one is offended by my posting this on the UHH web site. The basic purpose of the posting is to get a few photos of the Scottish Highlands. My background is as follows: born in Greensboro, NC in August of 1938 and adopted at age of 30 days. I was raised in Wilmington, NC and currently live in Mount Pleasant, SC. Respecting my adoptive parents, no attempt was made to identify my biological parents in the past. However, with the current status of DNA identification, any thing I learn about my background at my advanced age is most welcome. A very recent updated report from Ancestry.com indicates the following genetic background: 50% Scottish Highlands, 35% English and 15% Ireland, Wales and NW Europe. The Carolinas were heavily settled by immigrants from Scotland and England. At my current advanced age, there is not a plan to visit Scotland, thus this request for a few photos of the Scottish Highlands.. Thank you for reading this.
Jack B

bobforman Loc: Anacortes, Washington State

Here are just a few shots taken with a point and shoot. My mother's side is from Fort William near where many of these photos were taken. My dad's from Edinburgh. The highlands are a very picturesque location. Bob

wjones8637 Loc: Burleson, TX

I did a quick search using "Scottish Highland" a got quite a few hits.

Bill

happy sailor Loc: Ontario, Canada

That’s a very nice wee coo in photo 5, I’ll add a few photos tomorrow. I visited Scotland in September 2019.

Haenzel Loc: South Holland, The Netherlands

You might want to check out the following Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScotlandsMountains/featured. Plenty of footage from the Highlands..Very enjoyable to watch!!

Rich2236 Loc: E. Hampstead, New Hampshire

Here are a few from Scotland that I took a few years ago...I hope these help.
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bigalw Loc: Essex - UK

Superb pictures,

1/ probably Loch Ness ?
2/ Urqhart Castle (Loch Ness)
3/ probably Fort William (start of Loch Ness)
4/ ?
5/ ?
6/ ?

SonyBug

I am sorry that I don't have any pics of the Highlands, but did want to observe that since you are only a year older than me, I now know that I am of an "advanced age". Just did not know that before. Still feel like I am 25 or so most days, until I get up that is...

BobHartung Loc: Bettendorf, IA

Try Google Images

bobforman Loc: Anacortes, Washington State

If memory serves, which it rarely does, Fort Augustus is at the southwest end of Loch Ness. My photo of the locks on the Caledonian canal was taken there.

happy sailor Loc: Ontario, Canada

A very recent updated report from Ancestry.com indicates the following genetic background: 50% Scottish Highlands, 35% English and 15% Ireland, Wales and NW Europe.


Here are a few shots from my trip in 2019, the first one is for your 35% English

And the rest are from Scotland, I didn't realize I was posting so many and it stopped me at 10

So two more that I like in the next post.

Now we are in Scotland, the Commando Memorial in Lochaber, Scotland



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Fort Augustus, same locks as the other poster

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Loch Ness Tour Boats, Fort Augustus

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Loch Ness from the side of the highway, Nessie just went under sorry missed it

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Small town, Kingussie, lots of places like this

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Stone of Scone or the Coronation Stone as the English called it

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Edinburgh Castle, well one side of it!

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A pub, a special pub but a pub nonetheless

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happy sailor Loc: Ontario, Canada

Here are two more from Edinburgh,

The second one is truly one of my favourites!!!

Night falls on the Royal Mile, St Giles Cathedral on the left

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After listening to them speak this place makes a lot of sense, lol!

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RodeoMan Loc: St Joseph, Missouri

Hi Jack, I am afraid I can't help you with the images of the Scottish Highlands as I have never been there, but would love to go there. I have roots in Scotland on both my mom's side and my dad's. However my Scottish ancestors left before 1700. One of my many times great grandmothers was Barbara Hume. She sailed with her parents on the Caledonia in the latter 1600's with her parents. They both died of disease and were buried at sea. Had she died, I wouldn't sitting here typing this message to you. There are stories like this in every family; we are all here by the grace of God and the skin of our teeth.
I don't know if you are interested in finding your actually parents. I don't think that it is disrepectful to the adoptive parent for a child to want to know who his birth parents are. I look at geography being the horizontal axis that places who we are. It tells how our forebears, and our immediate family moved across the landscape to place us in the location we find ourselves. I see genealogy representing the vertical axis showing how we (or our ancestral bloodline) moved down through the years. We are where the horizontal axis of geography intersects with the vertical axis of our genealogy.
If you have paid for a DNA test, you will get results showing the percentages such as you mentioned in your post. If you want information that might connect you with your birth parents, then you need to have a membership in Ancestry that allows you to build a tree. Once you have this and your DNA is submitted, then other people who are in Ancestry who have their DNA submitted and who are related to you will show up in your DNA matches. At the top are the people with the most DNA in common with you. This would be parents. I'm guessing that you probably wont have any matches there. Then will be siblings. Who knows. Maybe you have brothers or sisters out there who have tested. Along with siblings will be children, if you had any children and they tested. It just goes on down, aunts and uncles, first cousins then second cousins and down to about fifth cousins.
Lets say that you looked at your DNA matches and found a couple of first cousins, for example, that were matches with you. They very likely might have a tree that goes back a few generations. If you find a first cousin that means that person and you share a common grandparent and one of your parents and one of yours are siblings. This is what you would call a "toe in the door". If you get on youtube, you can see all sorts of videos of how folks use what I just wrote about to find their roots. Also there no doubt is a public library or local genealogy society that would help you get started with this. I wish you luck.

IDguy Loc: Idaho

Wooly burger is my fave!

(That’s what we called them for our kids when we toured there in 1983.)