An Expanded Identity: An Account of A Thompson-Duncan Genealogy in Scotland, Ireland, and Nova Scotia Geneology took over when Ted Thompson investigated his forebears in Scotland and Ireland and discovered the Highlanders in Sutherlandshire and the ?Scots in Ireland,? and the Ulster Scots of Collon, Ireland. The result was an enhanced self awareness, that he shares with his forebears both a love of life in Canada, and the wistful hope ?that the best is yet to be.?