There’s something about presidents and Army generals with Scots-Irish surnames in wartime. President Abraham Lincoln had trouble with General George McClellan during the Civil War, Harry Truman had ...

Genealogical Publishing Company has recently issued a Quicksheet that will be of help to many researchers. It is titled “Scots-Irish Genealogy Research” at a glance. The actual number of Americans ...

Like more than 27 million other Americans (myself included), they are descendants of Scots-Irish (or Scotch-Irish) immigrants to the United States. For years, I mistakenly assumed that the term ...

A patronymic surname is one that is derived from a person’s father’s first name. At some point in history many patronymic surnames were adopted as permanent, inherited surnames, and so they survive ...

Genealogist Barry Griffin used data from the 1901 and 1911 Irish censuses to plot out surnames on the map of Ireland More than 6,000 Irish surnames are included on a website compiled by genealogist ...