Ancestors of Iain John Carson McCraine from Scotland.

DNA Matches from John Morrison The DNA which matches so many Acadian French, is from a Scot, named,  John Morrison. John was the son of John Morrison 1702 1740 and his wife Elizabeth Alleson 1707.  John was the brother of James, Dugald, Margaret, Janet and Elizabeth (known). Leaving Scotland Increasing agricultural prosperity, industrial expansion, and British policy forbidding the emigration of skilled artisans all combined to account for the temporary decline of Lowland emigration to North America, while the proverbial if perverse loyalty of Highlanders to the British Crown helps explain their preference for the British colonies, especially after American independence.6 As one Scots settler wrote to his mother in 1783, "It's an impossibility for any loyal subject to remain (or any to return) in the United States for any one that's found in the country is . . . inhumanly dealt with by its ungovernable mobs and encouraged by their rulers". American host...

The Morrison Family From Alloa Clackmannanshire Scotland  To Bathurst New Brunswick Canada A Story Spanning 235 Years Connecting Family By Science A Compilation of Family Historical Events Introduction Finding new cousins, is rather interesting, finding 2000 of them, at once, is a bit overwhelming.  Such is the new methods attributed to Family History research.  While it was all very much a case of Double Dutch to me, when it showed that my DNA matched with over 2000 Acadian French Canadians, I became a very firm dis-believer. After asking some questions, and trying to work out how, a few emails were sent to others who also showed a match with my records.  Unfortunately this part is the only way forward, and people just do not answer and email.  Except for one person, whom I had initially discounted, as there was not one name in his family tree that sounded familiar, just one record of a person named Morrison....