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Don’t miss the opportunity to attend a week-long course in researching Irish and Scots-Irish ancestors in Salt Lake City UT, in October 2018. This course will be delivered by Ulster Historical ...

About 9.2 million Americans claim Scottish descent. When speaking of Scottish ancestry, it is helpful to separate the population into Highlanders, Lowlanders, and the Scots-Irish, as each group has a ...

Like more than 27 million other Americans (myself included), they are descendants of Scots-Irish (or Scotch-Irish) immigrants to the United States. For years, I mistakenly assumed that the term ...

For Janelle Asselin, it started with 10 pages of family records, tales of ancestors that spanned Ireland, Canada and the United States. After a decade of research, she eventually found that John ...

David Dobson has been writing and publishing volumes about the people of Scotland and their migrations for years. His new two-volume work, “Scots-Irish Links, Consolidated Edition,” pulls together a ...

A patronymic surname is one that is derived from a person’s father’s first name. At some point in history many patronymic surnames were adopted as permanent, inherited surnames, and so they survive ...