Happy Burns Day to all of my friends and family in Scotland and abroad!

This year's celebration is especially meaningful to me as this is the first Burns Day that I have been aware of two lines of Scottish ancestry. I always knew my paternal grandmother's family was from Fife, Scotland, and had traced their family line back to the 1600s, but last summer I also learned that my maternal grandfather was part Scottish.

The Frazer family emigrated from an unknown part of Ireland in the mid-nineteent...
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