The Scots-Irish

Ulster Heritage Magazine: Christma Sale on DNA testing from Family Tree : Link to join:  Ulster Heritage DNA Project

Tim Clarkson's new book on Viking Age Strathclyde  is now available and highly recommended.  Strathclyde and the Anglo-Saxons in th...

Cracker Cattle What is the etymology of the term Cracker?   We all know what a Cracker was (or is).   A Southern Anglo-Celt, usually...

(additional information of the transfer offer from Family Tree to people who test with AncestryDNA and 23andMe) Family Tree DNA is now all...

Family Tree DNA is offering free transfers from 23andMe and AncestryDNA.  This is an excellent opportunity to upload your existed data into ...

Scots-Irish DNA project update 21 October 2014 The Scots-Irish DNA project has 504 participants as of this date.  Family Tree has added ma...

  Above is a map showing the location of the R-L21 Haplogroup.  R-L21 Haplogroup and the growing number of downstream (more recent in ch...

short film on the Scots-Irish done by Penn State University.

Many families married into the Scots-Irish.  German families in the Upland and backwood South often became part of Scots-Irish society.  Her...

The Battle of Gonzales was fought near Gonzales, Texas, on 2 October 1835, between Texian settlers and a detachment of Mexican army troop...

SCOTS-IRISH ORIGINS, 1600-1800A.D. GENEALOGICAL GLEANINGS OF THE SCOTS-IRISH IN COUNTY LONDONDERRY, IRELAND PART THREE - ‘THE MAIDEN CITY’ ...

This blog is primarily about the Scots-Irish in the New World from Colonial times to the present.  Occasionally, I will post items of intere...

Ulster Heritage Magazine: News From Ballymoney Museum : Dear Family Historian, It’s less than two weeks to ROUTE BACK HOME 2014 and the st...

McCain's Corner: DNA Genetic Genealogy Sale : All the DNA projects I administer and assist with, use Family Tree DNA labs in Houston, Te...

Link to an interesting article written in 2012 on the Scots-Irish as indigenous Americans. Link:  Scots-Irish as indigenous people

442 families are now participating in the Scots-Irish DNA project and the project is growing at a rapid pace.  We have enough DNA results ...

Dog Trot style Cabin, a design used by many Scots-Irish families.

The Great Wagon Road followed paths used by Indians and was the main roads by which the Scots-Irish moved south and west and peopled the b...

David Wright's splendid illustration of a typical Scots-Irish frontiersman. 

"Ireland is divided into four provinces, viz. Munster, Connaught, Leinster and Ulster. Leinster is chiefly inhabited by what are ca...

Before the Long Hunt by David Wright Tennessean David Wright is a gifted and brilliant artist. Fortunately for us he often select Scots...

Ulster Heritage Magazine: Ulster American Heritage Symposium, 26-28 June, At... : 20th Biennial Ulster-American Heritage Symposium comes to ...

Festival celebrates Scots-Irish heritage. Link to Event information:  Radford Highlanders Festival.

Of this morning, the project has 384 families participating.  The results page is current and most kits have been grouped by haplogroup desi...

Ulster Heritage Magazine: DNA Testing Transfer to Family Tree : Note... if you have done DNA testing with another company here is your oppor...

Historical illustrator: Well i decided to head to Monea Castle in County F... : Well i decided to head to Monea Castle in County Fermanagh, ...

Ulster-Scots Archaeological Project: Another busy day, and the tv were here! : Thursday was a busy day.. We were delighted to have a lar...

Ulster Heritage Magazine: Barry Vann to Speak at Queens in Belfast 6 June : Barry Vann Dr. Barry Vann will speak at the upcoming history ...