Quote Originally Posted by be da veva View Post
Actually I've been told that Mc is irish and Mac is scottish. And to make matters worse, every Mc someone I met was irish every Mac somebodyelse was scot.... Hence the irish being calles Mics or Mikeys in a derogotary (sp?) way...
So many names were changed by the registrars at Ellis Island. It is so very hard to trace Geneology back to the old sod when names get changed.