I recently went for a bicycle ride around two charming islands. I had done my genealogy homework. I found incontrovertible forensic evidence that every retard in my family is Scottish.
For decades vermin farm animals have been asking where I'm from. From is a fluid concept. I've noticed some think from means school. More often 'from' is defined as wherever the answerer thinks has the most cache. For example, the current RiC thinks New York is cooler than Philly. One reason for that is because he's a stupid whore.
A goodly number of my ancestors I've recorded on Ancestry.com appear to have been from England. If one were born, bred, and raised in the Outer Hebrides, and one packed up to go elsewhere, one might move to England, discover the English in all their splendor, and decide to move to America. One's sailing manifest, last place of residence, the 'from' that
you explain to the vermin on the other side of the muddy puddle would be England. Even as recently as Brad's Cambridge University Trinity College days, most would think being English to be more respectable than being Scottish. One would claim to be 'from' England.
Unless One was there, with the ghosts of the clan chiefs, one can't definitively say.
