We finally made a breakthough in getting my family tree back to Scotland. Got the sailing papers for our fist immigrant and located the ships passenger list. He was a saddlemaker in rural Scotland as far as we can tell. there was no city of residence or county listed anywhere. Just that he was from Scotland. We then continued to dig further and found that this ancestor and his mother were born and christened in Yorkshire with no record of a father, strange. So our mystery ancestor presents us with yet another mystery. Who was his father and how did the family get from Yorkshire to Scotland or vice versa I'm told families in that region might have bounced around back and forth across the border often. I was also told by another historian that some may have considered themselves Scots even though they did in fact live in England But Yorkshire seems a bit far south for that. Any comments, advice or opinions?