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Genealogists rely heavily on names to identify people, and to link them together. Thanks to strong forenaming patterns and the patronymic surname system, Scots’ names are far more likely to identify them in terms of place and family than the names of, say, English or French people.

A theatrical poster of a romantic melodrama, Bonnie Scotland, performed about 1895, shows the idealized image of Scots people that was common around the world.