Scottish Ancestors and How to Research Them | Ancestral Findings Podcast

Hands down the worst treatment of the subject I've ever come across. There is so much disinformation in here, it's all but useless

4G grandfather with 2 brothers and their families came from County Tyrone in 1825. Settled in Butler County PA. Farmed potatoes. My maternal great grandmother was born in London Derry in 1866 and married my great grandfather from Glasgow. His name was McGlincy. Also settled in Butler, PA.

My family oral history is that the family left Ireland in 1825 because of the King raising taxes.

My family as much of our history in the new world is concerned is with some degree of certainty has been traced back to the early 1700's. Our surname of Keeney which has many spelling variations is of Scottish origin with an Ulster stop on their eventual destination of America. Our roots are in Appalachia but over the course of three centuries they have spread throughout the United States. James Keeney

So now we know that the scotch irish are not Irish . Low land scots and English who migrated to Ireland .

I asked that you cease from putting this on the internet. And for you to ask permission from these individual American people. And to please stop with the public exploitation. If you want to research these people: Do it in CONFIDENCE with these peoples' approval and a contract,.of what they allow you and what they want you to research.
There is NOTHING MORE SICKENING than to visit a family CEMETERY, that is in a 500,000 acre forest, that has been invaded by non family members without permission. And to have graves destroyed and looted. Then see It exploited, on the internet and Ancestory...as a badge of honor and lied about the person.

My Father's paternal line and my Mother's, Mother's line are from Ulster.
You're so polite. If you were from Ulster you could be kill just for being Protestant.

My dad’s sur name is the same as a valley in Scotland. All he knew was his family was Irish.

My family were from Scotland and moved to Ireland due religious persecution. Then they came to America and started the Revolutionary War! We are Scotch Irish!

This has been very helpful. One of my great-grandmothers, named Alice Maxwell before marriage, was from a Scots-Irish family that immigrated to Canada. I had wondered when they were likely to have come to this hemisphere, and doubted that they had been affected much by the potato famine in the 1840s. According to this work, they may have come quite a bit earlier. Her husband, John Stouffer, was from a Canadian family who had immigrated from Switzerland. Since they weren’t Roman Catholic, I suspect he was from the Calvinist reformed church; so Alice was probably Presbyterian. They settled in Michigan and had four children, one of whom was my paternal grandmother. She told me many stories, but never enough about her mother! 🙏🏼☘️😉

I have Irish and Scottish blood in me from my mom's side. The names from Ireland are Cochran from Armagh County in the late 1700s, Thain and Forbes from Bannfshire in the 1800s, Day from? in the1600s, Dixon and Sim from Perthshire., in the 1800s. I have no idea which CLAN [S] these people came from but I wish I did. I have been to the Scottish Games in the past in Enumclaw, WA but according to all I talked with it meant that it could have been more than one because of where they had come to the USA from. Who knows what other kind of blood can be in me if I could go back even further! Maybe Neanderthall or Denicevens. Wouldn't that be awesome!

The vast majority of my ancestry is Swiss Mennonite, with some further-north German Mennonite. However the only ancestor we can not trace back to Switzerland or Germany is my mother's mother's father's mother, whose maiden name was Kennedy. She lived in Augusta County, VA. I have not been able to find much of anything on the origin/background of this line, only online family tree website stuff which I don't trust. But according to one of them, my Kennedy ancestry is actually Scots-Irish, originating in Ayrshire, Scotland. I would appreciate any tips on researching this line

Ulster has never been a county.

It is Scots or Scottish, scotch is a whisky

I know I'm part Irish, and part Norwegian, English, and Cherokee Indian. My surname, I have been told, originated in County Louth, Ireland. I would love to learn all I can about my ancestry, but I can't afford to research it to the extent that I really want to. I have seen my family crest and my family colors.

Our surnames are McMillan, Dunlap, Baker. Also Brown, Willis, Williams.

English or Scots that lived in Ireland were many of Europeans REFUGUEES during European roman Catholic religeous wars. This group fled to UK and dispersed thoughout the King's realm today's UK and Ireland.. Intermarriage.. The ones that went to USA Canada from Ireland may be Irish but ulster being best skilled with European farming. Linen. Improved farming were European ppls mixed.

It's AP-a-LATCH-a

I have Irish and French ancestry. Possibly some German.

Maternal grandfather was a " Burns"...mother traced us to lowland Scotland and Scots Irish ancestry.

And it's too bad that the Presbyterian church of the Ulster-Scots is no longer practiced in the US - the early Ulster-Scots would not recognize the teachings of today's citizens with the ultra-liberal bullshit of today's Presbyterian church. The PCUSA is nothing but an ultra-liberal queer-loving association of liberal dimwits.

I have Scott and Irish in my dad's side of the family my were Scottish people who were taking to northern Ireland to be slaves on the English planting in Northern Ireland.

Culbertson greatgrandfather I was told was Scott Irish he came to America 1889? ,around.

It's my understanding that the Scots who came to Ulster were chosen by England in an effort to breakdown Celtic tribalism in Ireland. A case of divide and conquer. England didn't want Ireland to be a homogenous population. Also, the Scots that came were, for the most part, from the Lowlands and the North of England. This was to avoid any Gaelic ancestry. I heard the narrator say they came to Ireland for religious freedom which may not be completely correct. I think my mother's ancestors came from the Scots-Irish and they came to America before the Revolutionary War.

I'm Australian and of Scots-Irish ancestry. No Scot would want to be called "Scotch". My people were Catholic and moved to Scotland from Ireland to work in the Jute mills of Dundee. However my DNA tells me that I have Scots ancestry separate to and earlier than my grandfather and his mother who were first Scots-born in that line which migrated to Scotland in the mid 1900s. 😊

SCOTCH IS WHISKEY!!!

That was quite helpful! I wondered if we had scotch Irish in my husbands or my family. But I realize now, my grandmother was Catholic Irish, so I’m not probably scotch Irish. My husband’s family has a primary ancestor from Scotland. But I understand that there was a lot of moving back-and-forth between Ireland and Scotland at various times, so I have used the term scotch Irish to cover that. However, now I know the true definition. Thank you for this information!

After Queen Victoria, Lowlander and Highlander cultures merged to a great degree as it was a good thing to be Scottish and kilts and other Highland culture became in vogue.

Scots Irish is not a correct label, it should be Ulster Scots,

Yep, they originally identified themselves as Irish because they are Irish. The Scots Irish nonsense was invented by the English to cause division. The Scots and the Irish are one Celtic race who spoke one Celtic language Gaelic. The Romans referred to Ireland as Scotia Major and Scotland as Scotia Minor and the Irish and the Scots were all called Scotis. Even at the Battle of Culloden the English spoke of the Scots speaking Irish and Dillons Irish regiment came over from France to fight with them.

I had to stop it 5 min in .... would've been SO MUCH BETTER if there had been illustrations rather than the same wallpaper throughout the entire presentation. I'm ADHD.. got to do more to keep your audience if they're anything like me.

Scotch is a drink, not a people.

I am Scottish n my grandfather was from Derry n came to Scotland when was age 7

I am a cooper. And a johnson. I heard johnson is Scottish. Not sure

The title of this reads,"scotch"... but Scotch is only a type of whiskey or a type of tape. People are Scottish or Scotts.
A history professor in college drummed that fact in hard to all his students.. and it stuck with me to this very day !

My Scott Irish grandpa John Walker was born on the ship that was sailing to America. He worked as a traveling Stonemason. When he returned home to the mountains of West Virginia he became involved and Moon Shining. He married my grandmother who was a Cherokee Indian.
I am so very proud of my heritage!

Scots or Scottish don’t like to be called Scotch (liquor) today.

I've been told I have Irish, Scotts and black Irish or scots-Irish. As an American it's somewhat confusing.

Through various sources, I have found that I have three different nationalities. The Raders (Roeders) and Defenbaughs are German. The Elkins are Irish. The Nichols are either Norman or Scotch. At one time time, I had some pretty good documentation, but my son was not careful with it, and it was destroyed.

My name is Scotty from Raven 😎 via Scotland... McLaren clan.

Can you tell me if the Cougle surname might be of Scots-Irish origin? The name appeared out of nowhere in New Jersey in the 1770's although it seems to be a common surname there now.

Irish and Scottish also immigrated to eastern Canada at that time period. In the early 1900's, there were more people speaking Gaelic than English on Cape Breton Island and eastern Nova Scotia. Along the Nashwaak River at Taymouth, New Brunswick a graveyard exists for the Black Watch and hence military cemeteries can provide ancestral information.

Found I was Scott Irish in a DNA test. Fathers side came in the 1840's. Daughter and granddaughters can join the DAR because of my mother's family. Grandmother married a Dilley was a officer who had a very bad Christmas but did get to meet George Washington.

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There were some highlanders who were to be ulster scots at the time of the highland clearance's

Yes Mc Curdy

They are scotts

My 4 ggrandfather was kicked out of Ireland in 1798 because he was a member of the United Irishmen. He came through Canada and down into Northeastern Vermont. We were told his records were burned. I am not sure if this occurred in the 1920s fire or if it occurred at the time he was booted from the country.

I live in California because my Chickasaw grandmother was White admixed and had a Scotch-Irish/American parent (half Scots immigrant from Lowland Scotland, half Appalachian of Ulster Scots background) It was her father who took her & her mother, a former Choctaw tribal citizen, out of the community. That's how our Native side got to where we currently live. But it's okay. I'm not salty that we're assimilated. It's just where we come from, who we are, and how we got where we live now. White admixture from consensual relationships is not to be ashamed of, but removing Native descendants from their home culture was wrong. Either way it can't be undone. I'm American, North Native American & White.

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