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 ...

William J. Roulston, noted expert and frequent lecturer on Scots-Irish research, is the author of “Researching Scots-Irish Ancestors, the Essential Genealogical Guide to Early Modern Ulster, 1600-1800 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What do Hillary Clinton, Mike Huckabee, John McCain and Barack Obama have in common, besides wanting to be the next commander in chief? They are all of Scots-Irish descent, an ethnic and cultural ...