Full blooded West Virginian hillbilly, descended from the usual melange of mysterious heritages. The Foster name can be traced back to Flemish origins when the Forrestiere's invaded britain with William the Conqueror as his right hand man during the Norman Conquests, then set up shop in the Lowlands of Scotland and are spread across the south from Northumberton to Edinburgh to Stirling all the way up to the Isle of Skye (by report). We can trace our Foster name back 9 or 10 generations to the firrst one to arrive on these shores in the early 1700's and set up shop in Virginia, but not before that. The Foster family has stayed nearly exclusively in Virginia/West Virginia ever since then, with us being able to find family cemetaries in a couple different counties full of relatives. Since that first Foster immigrant there has been an admixture of other Scots, Scot-Irish, English, Cherokee, and German to get down to my generation, then my 2 older kids are more German mix from their mother (my first wife's parents were first generation americans of german immigrants), with my new son being half Dutch (my new wife is full bloooded dutch from fullblooded dutch immigrants). So when you start doing the math I am probably a lot less Scottish than everything else, and my kids definitely so. But it is the name and bloodlines that keep me scottish, especially since that is the only bloodline I can trace back 9 or 10 generations.