5-Day Clan Roots & Highland Heritage
Trace your Highland ancestry through clan seats, ancestral graveyards, and the landscapes your forebears called home — from Eilean Donan to the shores of Loch Ness
What's Included
Ancestry Tour Highlights
Heritage Sites
Clan Seats & Ancestral Sites
Eilean Donan Castle
The spiritual heart of the western Highlands and seat of Clan MacRae. Explore your clan's connection to this 13th-century island fortress where three sea lochs converge.
Urquhart Castle & Loch Ness
One of Scotland's largest castle ruins, held by multiple clans over centuries. Research your family's possible ties to this dramatic promontory above Loch Ness.
Inverness Parish Archives
Access Highland birth, marriage, and burial records dating back centuries. Our genealogist helps you trace names through parish registers and census data.
Highland Ancestral Graveyards
Visit the burial grounds where your ancestors rest — from walled kirkyards to clifftop cemeteries with views over the glens they farmed.
The Schedule
Day by Day
Arrival & Family History Briefing
- ▪Private airport transfer to Inverness
- ▪Check-in at luxury Highland lodge
- ▪Welcome dinner with genealogical briefing — review your family tree and clan connections
Clan Seat & Kintail
- ▪Morning visit to your clan seat castle with private historian
- ▪Walk the lands your ancestors held in Kintail and Glen Shiel
- ▪Afternoon at Invergarry Castle ruins — stronghold of the MacDonells
- ▪Evening clan history discussion at Highland lodge
Archives & Loch Ness
- ▪Morning at Inverness archives with genealogist — trace birth and marriage records
- ▪Afternoon boat cruise on Loch Ness to Urquhart Castle
- ▪Research possible family ties to the castle's centuries of clan warfare
- ▪Evening at leisure in Inverness
Ancestral Graveyards & Speyside
- ▪Visit ancestral graveyards in Moray and Speyside with local historian
- ▪Read weathered headstones and trace family names through generations
- ▪Afternoon at a Speyside distillery with clan connections
- ▪Farewell dinner celebrating your Highland heritage discoveries
Departure
- ▪Leisurely Highland morning
- ▪Receive compiled ancestry report and documented findings
- ▪Private transfer to Inverness airport
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