Happy Easter & Passover greetings to all.

Here on Prince Edward Island, we are enjoying Easter with family and seeing signs of spring arrive daily.
 
We love hearing from family. We hope you find HomePort (IanScott.ca) helpful in staying connected. Scott material starts at Scott@HomePort. Please feel free to share these links with others.

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Family History News.
Research on the life of Alice Bergeron Hill (1908-1957), the first wife of Sumner Walter Dill Scott (1908-1983), continues. Recently a 1934 press photo arrived by mail showing Alice Hill, the American radio actress in Chicago prior to her marriage to Sumner Scott, the son of Dr. Walter Dill Scott and Dr. Anna Marcy (Miller) Scott. Their wedding took place on campus at Howes Memorial Chapel, Northwestern University on the 29th of September of 1939.

Sumner's father had just retired as president of Northwestern the month before on August 31, 1939, and his uncle Dr. John Adams Scott, was a classics professor at Northwestern. The campus was a familiar location for everyone. Sumner, his uncle, mother, and father were all Northwestern graduates and he was working as an English professor at Wright Jr. College, in Chicago at the time. Alice had studied at both the University of Wisconsin and the University of Southern California, and was well known on the airwaves during the era when radio drama was the top entertainment source reaching most homes as families gathered around the radio to follow their favourite shows.

The photos and ongoing research are compiled in an article called Through the Looking Glass - The Search for Alice Hill, which explores the life of Alice Hill.

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Family Connections

This Easter weekend I received an email from Oakland CA establishing a new contact within the 2nd Pittsburgh Line founded by Thomas Forester Scott & Martha Taylor. It was a reminder of a similar Easter during the year 2000 when re-connection between the two founding branches of the family (two sons of Sgr. David Scott & Jean Dalgity) was re-established. In February 2000 I had contacted Donna Maloy of Virginia through a genealogical bulletin board. It was the first contact between these two branches of the family in 90 years but it was still a tentative connection. Donna had already made contact with close relatives through Ancestry and knew much of the genealogy within the three Pittsburgh branches but lacked proof of a connection between our ancestors. It was an obituary sent to Nova Scotia relatives in 1910 from Pittsburgh that I discovered on Easter Sunday in 2000 which became the basis to confirm our connection. Donna had a copy of the very same obituary. That story of re-connection is told through Finding Lost Connections: Thomas F. Scott.

A warm Easter welcome to Skip Fogarty and his family in Oakland. Skip is a great-great-great grandson of Thomas Forester Scott & Martha Taylor and his children are among the ninth generation of the family to live in North America.

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DNA Research
DNA results are back and show a DNA linkage between myself and Donna Maloy (mentioned above) helping confirm our paper-based research from 2000 showing shared DNA as descendants of the two oldest branches of the family tree. Those branches extend to the original Scott brothers, David Jr. and John, who arrived in Nova Scotia in 1801 with their parents. David's descendants form the Pittsburgh Branch and brother John's the Northern Branch. It was from those initial branches that nine family lines emerged in the next generation, and many of those extend now to the tenth generation in North America.

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In The News 
A prominent member of the US Senate, Elizabeth Warren, senior senator for MA, recently announced her candidacy for the presidential nomination in 2020. Elizabeth is married to fellow Harvard law professor Bruce Mann who is a great-great-great-great grandson of Sgr. David Scott and Jean Dalgity. Among the lines founded by the grandchildren of the pioneer couple this line is called the 3rd Boston Line and was founded by Daniel DeWolf Scott & Abigail McNutt.

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On the Web
In another newsletter we mentioned the tiny house built by Whit Scott in Portland, OR which has now become a short-term rental through Air BnB. Called The S'more, Whit has built a second property with friends called Little Blue, which is also available through Air BnB. Both properties look like very creative builds and are providing exciting destinations for travellers to experience life in a tiny house.

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