The Scots-Irish

Scottish Heritage Weekend, 5-7 April; Laurinburg NC I will be speaking at the 30th Charles Bascombe Shaw Memorial Scottish Heritage ...

McCain's Corner: The Lone Star Flag, part 1 : Republic of West Florida 1810-1811 I have a great interest our heritage and people....

McCain's Corner: The Lone Star Flag Part II : Mary Long's Long Star Flag 1819 In The Lone Star Flag Part I, we learned that the L...

McCain's Corner: Genetic Genealogy When No Paternal Relative Is Ava... : Genetic Genealogy When No Paternal Relative Is Available  ...

McCain's Corner: Old Christmas January 6 2018 : The Old Christmas on January 6   Do you remember the Old Christmas, back ...

In one interview in the early 1950's John Wayne described himself as 'just a Scotch-Irish little boy.' John Wayne, o...

McCain's Corner: The Gaelic Wise Woman of Claddagh 1913 : This is the oldest colour photo of an Irish 'wise woman' and was taken...

McCain's Corner: Irish & Scots Female Ancestor Names in Primary Sou... : Irish & Scots Female Ancestor Names in Primary Sources ...

A highly recommended book by Joshua Heston, of Branson, Missouri.   In The State of the Ozarks, Joshua Heston is following the footstep...

McCain's Corner: Viking, a profession for many Gaels : Gaelic Lord and warrior circa 1000 AD (c) Ulster Heritage  Gaelic Lord and ...

McCain's Corner: DNA Test Sale with Family Tree : Barry R McCain with Ian McKean and Ivan Knox, two of his Irish cousins located using D...

Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas It is easy to participate in the Scots-Irish DNA project.  The project's home is with Family Tree DNA o...

'Young Frontiersman' by H. David Wright The Scots-Irish DNA project has reached 1,000 participating families.  This list below ...

An Irish Christmas Present, Finding the McCains Mongavlin Castle, Donegal, Ireland A wonderful read that covers 40 years of trav...

In the 18th Century when many thousands of Ulster's sons and daughters came to New World to settle on the frontier, they brought...

McCain's Corner: Irish & Scots Female Ancestor Names in Primary Sou... : As you progress with your genetic genealogy research you wi...

Three centuries of life in a Tyrone parish A history of Donagheady from 1600 to 1900 Many of the Scots-Irish that migrated to the...

McCain's Corner: Y-DNA test When No Paternal Relative Is Available ... : This post will again address genetic genealogy for Irish, Scots...

Below is a list of families participating in the Scots-Irish DNA Project as of November 2015.  There are now over 900 participating familie...

McIntosh and Menawa Real history is always more complex and multilayered than the history told by the modern media and even in most basic ...

Henry McWhorter 1760-1848 was born in New Jersey son of Gilbert McWhorter (1742 -1767) who was a linen-weaver by trade, hailed from No...

McCain's Corner: Iníon Dubh : Iníon Dubh (said, Nee-an doo) is one of the most remembered and beloved heroines in Irish history.  Iníon ...

Barry R McCain (Update.... a Rugby match on BBC is running long, our program rescheduled for  Wednesday 30th at 19.30 hour UK time an...

McCain's Corner: BBC Ulster, the Kist o' Wurds program : Barry R McCain on the Thacker Mt Trail My BBC interview will be on today,...

McCain's Corner: Celtic Life Internation Magazine : A note to one and all; there is a review of my new book Finding the McCains in th...

McCain's Corner: Highlanders in West Ulster, 1569-1630 : In the sixteenth century Scottish Highlanders settled in the Laggan district of...

McCain's Corner: Epigenetics : Epigenetics is the study, in the field of genetics, of cellular and physiological phenotypic trait variat...

Ulster Heritage Magazine: Ohio Celt Fest, August 7-9 : The 4th Annual Ohio Celtic Festival Welcome to the Ohio Celtic Festival! We&...

McCain's Corner: SNP Testing, Summer Sale from Family Tree DNA... O... : Some good news from Family Tree DNA regarding SNP testing.  The...

McCain's Corner: Anglicized Surnames; the many forms of John : Knowing the Gaelic form of our surnames is a very helpful in genetic gene...