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I think every descendant of scot ancestry hears that they are related to Robert Bruce. My mother and Uncles used to tell us all that we were related to the Bruce, but I seriously doubt that. I am sure some of the scots who migrated here to escape English prosecution(some of the hardest fighters during the revolutionary war, BTW)were related but you would have to dig into your family tree deeply in order to find out. I think it was a point of honor for descendants of scot families to claim this relationship,but we can't all be related to him!

The greater number of most folk's Scottish ancestors didn't exactly "migrate here", nor was it to "escape English persecution". Rather, they were "transported here" and that was, in fact, evidence of "English persecution".

Back in 1700-10 the Brits hauled Scots off to America like so many cattle.

That trip was not considered a vacation.

There's holy ground generally unappreciated down at Smuggler's Creek in Alexandria VA. That's where the boats pulled up and Scots patriots transported in chains were tossed off to fend for themselves.

Many of them started the long-march to Alexander County in the Carolinas at this point ~ naked, cold, with no resources, and barefoot ~ a trail of tears.

Scots didn't travel in style to America until the Brits recruited them during the American Revolution to serve as tory militia in South Carolina (See: "The Patriot" with Mel Gibson)

A name to look for ~ William Alexander, Robert Alexander, Benjamin Alexander.

There are about a gazillion of these guys in the records ~ most of them were relatives of some sort to William Alexander, Lord Stirling. Colonel William Alexander, CO of the Maryland 400 "The Wild Geese" (the American Revolution's equivalent of the 300 Spartans) was the heir of Lord Stirling who arranged for almost the total evacuation of all remaining Alexanders from the Scottish Highlands.

That lineage by itself will get you into Robert the Bruce' line as well as that of MacBeth and Lady MacBeth, and she into the rolls of the Viking Kings from the earliest times.

It is a pure warriors' road all the way back if you descend from any of those guys.