am I from scotish lineage

[Lordia]

Please, someone help me to find out if I'm of any scotish backround?????

[Polwarth]

Well, we'd like to help - but your post has no details - name/country/dates etc.....

We're good - but not that good!

[Lordia]

my last name is Atton, and I live in U.S.A., anything else needed just give me an email, my email is jesseatton@msn.com!!

[Polwarth]

Hello
Well, I've never heard of the name Atton in Scotland - but that is not to say there are no Attons here!

I did a quick google search and the few clues would seem to point to it being an English name from Lincolnshire... but I only gave a cursory look at the first couple of URLs it gave.

Why do you think you might have Scottish ancestry? Do you know that for certain, or is it just a thing you'd like to be true?

If you KNOW that there is Scottish ancestry - then you must start the painstaking task of digging for information from your generation, back through your parents, your grandparents and so on..... until you come to the first immigrant to your country. From that immigrant, it might be possible to find out (via passenger lists or immigration records) where he/she immigrated FROM. The Scots are territorial, and often a group would emigrate from one place. This might mean you are able to trace your family back to a specific area of Scotland.

It is hard work (as so many Americans tell me) - but that is the only way to know for sure whether or not your ancestry has any Scottish input.

Good luck with your research.