How do you know if you are British or not?

Question

A lot of my family is in the Scottish, Irish region.

How can I find if I am British or not?

One record says that my grea--great grandmom would talk about her ENGLISH father, but a different tree says he was born in Scotland

Confused...........

Answer 1

PLEASE do NOT take this as directed at you.. but this is a frustration faced by MANY experienced genealogists, myself included.
I started researching before the internet became popular, and with that popularity, came some serious damage to the process of research. It became expected that using the internet would re-invent research. People hope to find posted online family trees, without any effort to know how those trees are created, but especially how to know which of them are accurate or not.
The answer to your confusion is to identify what is the source of each conflicting "fact", AND of those sources.. which is most reliable? Is either source an ORIGINAL record? An original record would be a church document (ie baptism), a census record (those can have errors also). Someone else's online tree is not a source. They might list the source.. and some even go as far as to post "I'm not sure this is right, but I am putting it up anyway".
Frankly, I would rather have a trojan horse virus than see that. At least I would know what to do with a virus... and bad genealogy is worse than a virus.
One of the above statements is incorrect, in regards to your ancestor. You need to locate an independent record. Depending on when this ancestor lived (and where), it is not guaranteed that it exists, in order to be found. It is a bonus if that record is online.. but many records exist, and are NOT findable by the internet.
In the meantime... your own files should show that his birthplace is not known, and in the NOTES section, you can refer to this as "such and such states this, but such and such indicates that".
Sorry if I sound hostile. I have seen so much of bad info spread around.. and people accepting false "records", then spending much money to pursue proof that does not exist. In some cases, if the wrong mother is listed.. her heritage might be traced for years, without finding that it doesn't even belong to that child.
IF you can reach the person showing a Scottish birth, you can ask on what that fact is based. Hopefully, they have left a valid email address. If they indicate that "someone else told me", then it is back to square one.
Knowing the source of "facts" is a basic to research. Your confusion is due to far too many people who don't know that, or worse, don't accept it, even when advised.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Great Britain : (definiton) An island off the western coast of Europe comprising England, Scotland, and Wales.

So it's actually irrelevant whether or not he was from England or Scotland; he could be defined as British either way.

You could maybe attempt to find him a Census, or if memory serves there are a great set of books chronicling Scottish immigrants in the 18th C to the States. I unfortunately can't recall them at this time.

Answer 4

Wendy'a answer is best.

Don't take as fact information in family trees on any website(free or paid). Most is not documented or poorly document. You might see different information on the same person and all too often though you will see the same information repeatedly by many different subscribers without documentation.
That means foolish people are copying without verifying.

Use the information as clues as to where to obtain the documentation. Just don't take it as fact.

Answer 5

Whether your great-great, great grandfather was English or Scottish, he would still be British.

Primary sources, such as family bibles, personal letters, christening and burial records, ship manifests, and port of entry records are your best bets for finding your family's origins. Secondary sources, such as genealogical web sites, point you in research directions, but they are no substitute for first-hand evidence.

Answer 6

Scotland is in the island of Great Britain, so if he was Scottish, then he was British also.

Answer 7

Allot of nice people on here. (sarcasm). I know how you feel. I have two different family trees for one side of my family. One says my great-great grandma was a Full Lakota(Sioux), and the other says she was white. Talk about confusing.

I hope you have more luck than me.


Good luck, and God bless

Answer 8

erm if you search records in london at one of thee big offices you ccan find out also if you know his career like if he worked on the railways find out which one and they will have imformation on him about his date of birth also try searching marriage records which you will find at the church that they got married in that will also say

good luck

Answer 9

do you speak with a Brittish accent? then you just might be....

Answer 10

you don't look british.