Quote Originally Posted by Drac View Post
That is something I hadn't heard of.

My mother's family is from the mountains of Kentucky, Park(s). My (slim) Scottish heritage is from her great grandmother, a Steele. We always assumed that the Scotch name was from a long time ago or such. Would be interesting that my mother's family might be Scots-Irish instead of just Irish like we always thought. Unfortunely her family is bad about records so we have no real way to trace beyond the Greats.

Jim
It's quite common misconception that I ran into quite a lot as a local history librarian; folks thinking they were "Irish" and being very militant about it, only to find out that their ancestors were Ulster-Scots.

T.