Well, dad was part Scottish, at least the direct patrilineal part, obviously. Both my mom's parents came over from England, but I'm not sure what part -- quite possibly the north?

Speaking of Scottish, I have a little anecdote from the trip:

On our day trip to Edinburgh, we got out of the railway station on let's call it Street A.. and we wanted to get to Street B which ran on a bridge overhead of us... without several storeys' worth of staircases or many blocks out of our way (cuz Sharon can't do either of those). So: there was this tall hotel which rises from Street A to Street B... the lower floor was being renoed by some reno guys... so she goes in and asks one of them if the hotel has an elevator ("lift") we can use...

and the guy is all "och sure lassie you follow me", and explained to us where to go when we got to the top, etc.... and he goes "they're used to having tourists in here so they won't mind"

then he looks at me and says "so where you from?"

"Canada."

"Ah, Canada, good."

Then Sharon says "But if you go back far enough, he's actually from here."

The guy looks at me again and I say "MacLeod".... and then he goes "You're more Scottish than ME!"