Of all the people I've turned up in this branch of the family, my second great-grandfather Alexander Robinson is the one who keeps me guessing. For most of my life I'd never really been sure there was any Scottish blood in us at all — and it was only when I began this research that he stepped out of the records, and Scotland came with him. He is the nearest Scottish relative I have. As it turns out, he isn't the only one — there are other Scottish connections further back, on