Irish or Scottish

If one breaks down my DNA into regions, the largest part by far is Scottish, and yet I have yet to find a single ancestor that lived within the current boundaries of modern Scotland. I have a number that lived in Northern England and are probably contributing to that Scottish component but all of those are on my mother's side of the family, which contributes only 8% of my overall DNA profile. On my paternal side, 36% of my DNA is Scottish which adds up to a total of 44% of my DNA is Scottish. I feel as if I should be eating haggis at least once a week.

The reason I start off with this, goes back to the Grim branch of my family tree which I wrote in the last post. Nearly every person I have ever talked to or read, associates the Grim family from the paternal side of my family tree, with the famous Grim brothers of Germany who wrote the fairy tales. Since my paternal side of my DNA has exactly 0% of German DNA, I find it highly unlikely. My guess is that my Grim ancestors probably came from Scotland or Ireland, the latter of which I am about to explain.

Adam Grim Sr. was born around the start of the Revolutionary War but the only U.S records I have of him start in 1830. I have a couple verbal description of him from Pennsylvania county history books that describe him as coming to the area in the early part of the 1800s. One says in the 1814-1815 time frame and another in the context of one of his sons says around 1827. None of these say where he came from.  County histories, commonly written in the 1880's many years after the fact, are notorious for being inaccurate but generally do have some of the larger facts correct. So it has always been of interest that Adam Sr's oldest son Abraham Grim, lists him as coming over from Ireland in 1822, even if all subsequent records say he was born in Pennsylvania. A lot of Adam Sr records list his birth origins as unknown.

The thing that fascinates me is that the 1822 date and the 1827 date are fairly close together and since I have never found any records prior to 1830, this seems to jive that this family probably immigrated during the 1820's. But from where? Checking the Grim surname against Irish surname databases show that is is extremely rare. In fact, one database showed there was exactly three people with the surname Grim living in Ireland in 1901. Doing the same thing for Scotland, yields better results though most seem to favor the Grim surname as being from England or Germany. 

None of this answers my question of where the Grim family comes from nor who were my Scottish ancestors on my paternal side. But this does probably answer of why I watched the move Braveheart for the umpteenth time this past weekend. FREEDOM!