Am I Scottish?? Nationality!?

There's no such thing as a typical Scot. If you are descended from Scottish parents, you are a Scot.

So you understand what Nationality means, it is the country you were born in and or where you hold citizenship................ so were you born there? Do you hold citizenship there? If not then no........aparpt from the FACT no one in the WORLD has Scottish Nationality as there is no such thing, the Scots are British Nationals. Surname origins are nothing at all to do with where your ancestors came from, if you wish to know that then you need to research correctly via cited records.....as your surname doen't tell you Thompson This famous name is one of the patronymic forms of the name Thom or Tom, diminutives of the male personal name Thomas. The given name is of Biblical origin, being an Aramaic byname meaning "twin", borne by one of Christ's disciples; in England the name Thomas was found only as the name of a priest before the Norman Conquest of 1066, but thereafter became one of the most popular male personal names, generating a wide variety of surnames. The patronymic forms from diminutives, such as Thomson (the Scottish form) and Thompson, found mainly in England and Northern Ireland, appear in the 14th Century, the first recording being from Scotland. The intrusive "p" of the English and Irish forms was for easier pronunciation, although there are two old wives tales that the 'p' meant 'prisoner', or in Ireland 'Protestant', both are incorrect. Examles of early recordings include John Thompson in the Charters of the Abbey of Whitby, Yorkshire, in 1349, and Thomas Tomson, who married Elizabeth Harris at the church of St Jon the Evangelist, Dublin, on December 12th 1631. The earliest Coat of Arms is probably the following granted in Yorkshire in 1559. Per fess silver and black, with a fesse embattled between three falcons counterchanged, belled, beaked and jessed in gold. The crest is an arm holding a gold truncheon . One of the very earliest settlers in the New World, was William Thompson recorded as 'living at Elizabeth Cittie, Virginea', before February 16th 1623. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of John Thomson, which was dated 1318, in the "Annals of Scotland", during the reign of King Robert 1 of Scotland, known as "The Bruce", 1306 - 1329. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling. .and as for "characteristics" of a typical Scot.please do tell me what some ignorant stereotyping website says about "characteristics of a typical Scot" as there are NO "characteristics of a typical Scot" which distingish any difference from Northern Irish, Irish, English, Welsh and many other Europeans...unless they opened their mouths...and my guess is this "characteristics of a typical Scot wasn't based on ............. accent Based on what you have done which is not genealogy so you have no idea where your ancestry is from and even if and when you do find out you can't claim you are something you are not, you would have ancestry that is ( whatever) you remain what you are now, Nationality wise and ethnically wise.............

Your nationality is your citizenship and doesn't have anything to do with the origin of your ancestors. Your ancestral origin can be a number of things. Your father got his surname from his father and your mother got her maiden name from her father, but they both had mothers that had a different name. You see you have 4 grandparents, 8 great grandparents, 16 great great grandparents and each generation you go back probably only one would have been a Thompson and the other name you didn't mention only one person would have it. So by the time you get back to those great great grandparents 14 of them are not included. What do you mean typical characteristic of a Scot? Are you saying you are a spendthrift? All too often what people consider typical characteristic are just stereotypes. Are you talking about appearance. There are tall Scots and short Scots, red headed Scots and dark haired Scots. Now when it comes to appearances frequently there are some type of appearances that are fairly common among some people but being fairly common does not mean it is a rule. We have had people answering questions(not the regulars) that think all Irish should have red hair and green eyes just like Maureen O'Hara. Actually only 10% of the Irish have red hair. The only way to really know your ancestry is to research it. Anytime you wish to do this there are lots of people here that can give you some great tips and advice. In genealogy we just don't trace names. Names are good identifiers of individuals but don't prove ancestry.

Surnames have a language origin or country of origin, but that doesn't mean that is the nationality. Nationality is the country of birth or of citizenship, The only way to find the country of origin of your family is to research it and document you findings of every generation.

Nationality refers to where you are a citizen of. Ethnicity refers to where your ancestors came from. Just because your last name typically belongs to a certain ethnicity does not mean that you belong to it. Changes of names during immigration, adoption, etc happened. Research your family & if you trace your particular Thompson's back to Scotland, then you would be of Scottish ethnicity.