Thank you for the welcome. (I'm just starting to figure out where my messages are and how to reply.) This website looks very helpful to work on my brick wall!

Thank you, Sir.  

I am very new to genealogy. I jumped on Ancestry.com a few years ago to track down general information on my ancestors. Now, I am fascinated by the information I was shocked to discover.

I have checked this dozens of times, but it does, in fact, appear to me that my great-great-grandmother on my father's side was Elizabeth Boyd. My great-great-grandfather on my mother's side was Sir Thomas Douglas. This means Sir Robert Douglas is my great-great-grandfather on BOTH sides of my tree. I have tried to disprove this countless times by checking names/dates/records all the way to myself. Each time it comes up, as I have stated above. Seems far-fetched to me, but I am not able to disprove it through my research on Ancestry and other websites.  

Thanks for your welcome and the links, which I shall look at in due course.

My ancestors kept very close to the River Tay, Grandmother Scott's family operated The Boat of Caputh from the 1600s until a bridge was built in the Victorian era.

My 3rd gt-grandfather, William Douglas (1777 - 1837) was a shoemaker, who made his way to London, with the Army by 1800 . He married a woman from Berkshire and they lived in Shoreditch, until she died in 1824. Two children were buried in London and the surviving six travelled back to Scotland with their father.

James Dyer Douglas was a carrier and initially lived in Montrose, but moved to Aberdeen, then Perth and finally settled in Dundee.

William (my 2xgt-grandfather) was a shoemaker in Kirriemuir.

Charles lived in Dunkeld until his death in 1897, At first he was a tanner, but then moved into farming.

Thomas  was a light house keeper in the Western Isles.

Their sisters Charlotte and Martha married men from Montrose, where they settled.

Gt-grandfather, William Douglas, and his elder brother, David, had a Bakery in Kirriemuir, but moved to Edinburgh in the early 1860s. 

Grandfather, David, and Father, Cornelius, both drove vans for the bakery business.

Cornelius and his brother, David, moved to London in the 1930s. Cornelius drove a van for a Butcher and David worked for Ford at Dagenham.

During WW2, Cornelius drove a Light Anti- Aircraft truck across the Western Desert, with the Royal Artilllery, then in Italy and finally in Greece.

When he arrived back in Liverpool, he was sent to South Wales, in order to deliver food from Welsh farms to ports, in order to relieve Dutch People, who were starving. My mother was the daughter of a Welsh farmer.