The Scots-Irish

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...

The humble hand axe, or tomahawk, is an iconic tool of the Scots-Irish.   It was the multi-tool of its day, of use around the camp for cutt...

McCain's Corner: The Second Sight among the Scots Irish : Sarah Pearl Tweedy circa 1905 The phenomenon of Second sight has fascinated...

McCain's Corner: Summer Sale on Finding the McCains, a Scots Irish ... :   Loughcrew, County Meath Finding the McCains, a Scots Ir...

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

The Scots-Irish DNA Project now has 761 participating families.  Below is a roster of the participating families.  As you can see the fami...

McCain's Corner: Autosomal DNA Test Sale :   Autosomal DNA tests utilize DNA from the 22 pairs of autosomal chromosomes. Autosom...

Dr William Roulston is the Research Director of the Ulster Historical Foundation. He holds a PhD in Archaeology from Queen’s University ...

Ulster Heritage Magazine: Gaelic Language Festival 26-28 June in Ontario : OIREACHTAS GAEILGE CHEANADA A Festival of Gaelic Language and C...

McCain's Corner: Gaelic Female Ancestor Names pre 1600 in Genetic G... : As you progress with your genetic genealogy research you will e...

McCain's Corner: DNA Match Group & Derbhfine Names : If your Y-DNA match group has developed a strong geographic pattern this will a...

For members interested in a case study of a Family Tree DNA family project that located their cousins in Ulster and eventually located...

Ulster Heritage Magazine: Books : Finding the McCains Finding the McCains , is an account of a man’s 40 year odyssey to find the McCa...

Ulster Heritage Magazine: Y-DNA testing... When No Paternal Relative Is Avai... : Y-DNA test When No Paternal Relative Is Available A fr...

McCain's Corner: Irish and Scottish Clan Surnames : Clan Surnames     Many people with Gaelic origin surnames are interested i...

McCain's Corner: Genetic Genealogy of Irish, Scots, and Scots-Irish... : There are several firms that do DNA testing for individuals and...

( note many Scots-Irish are of Argyll and Lennox ancestry, areas where the kilt was worn.  Of interest, the first detailed record of the ki...

The remarkable story of the McCain family from Ulster, their ranks include James McKeen, co-leader of the 1718 fleet and first magistrate of...

( Many Scots-Irish are in R-S1051 haplogroup.  A lot of research going on with this haplogroup; they appear to be indigenous to central Scot...

The majority of the Scots-Irish are descendants of the native Celtic tribes of north Britain.  Here is a link to an article on the BBC Histo...

The Tweedy Family: Tweedys in Scotland and Ireland : We need Tweedys (by any spelling) to participate in DNA testing.  Our goals are to loca...

Amazon is running a sale on the book 'The Laggan Redshanks.'  The sale price is only US $13.46.  The book tells the fascinating sto...

The Scots-Irish were descendants of Scottish settlers in Ireland.  Many of these Scottish settlers were in turn descendants of Lowland Scots...

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...