What Are We Looking At?

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 4:09 pm

I am Scots-Irish. Except for today of course.

Forum Monk · Post by **Forum Monk** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 7:41 am

I once had a person blast me on a genaology board for using the term "scots-irish". I was reprimanded and informed there was no such thing as a scots-irish ethnic group, blah, blah, blah.

Funnily, enough the person that hammered me was a native american. Guess some people never heard of the "Ulster Scots".

btw, According to Wiki, the following people are some other famous Scots-Irish, lest any doubt our capabilities:

Andrew Jackson
7th President, 1829-37: He was born in the predominantly Ulster-Scots Waxshaws area of South Carolina two years after his parents left Boneybefore, near Carrickfergus in County Antrim. A heritage centre in the village pays tribute to the legacy of 'Old Hickory', the People's President.

James Knox Polk
11th President, 1845-49: His ancestors were among the first Ulster-Scots settlers, emigrating from Coleraine in 1680 to become a powerful political family in Mecklenberg County, North Carolina. He moved to Tennessee and became its Governor before winning the Presidency.

James Buchanan
15th President, 1857-61: Born in a log-cabin (which has been relocated to his old school in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania), 'Old Buck' cherished his origins: "My Ulster blood is a priceless heritage". The Buchanans were originally from Deroran, near Omagh in County Tyrone where the ancestral home still stands.

Andrew Johnson
17th President, 1865-69: His grandfather left Mounthill, near Larne in County Antrim around 1750 and settled in North Carolina. Andrew worked there as a tailor and ran a successful business in Greeneville, Tennessee, before being elected Vice-President. He became President following Abraham Lincoln's assassination.

Ulysses Simpson Grant
18th President, 1869-77: The home of his maternal great-grandfather, John Simpson, at Dergenagh, County Tyrone, is the location for an exhibition on the eventful life of the victorious Civil War commander who served two terms as President. Grant visited his ancestral homeland in 1878.

Chester Alan Arthur
21st President, 1881-85: His election was the start of a quarter-century in which the White House was occupied by men of Ulster-Scots origins. His family left Dreen, near Cullybackey, County Antrim, in 1815. There is now an interpretive centre, alongside the Arthur Ancestral Home, devoted to his life and times.

Grover Cleveland
22nd and 24th President, 1885-89 and 1893-97: Born in New Jersey, he was the maternal grandson of merchant Abner Neal, who emigrated from County Antrim in the 1790s. He is the only President to have served two terms with a break between.

Benjamin Harrison
23rd President, 1889-93: His mother, Elizabeth Irwin, had Ulster-Scots roots through her two great-grandfathers, James Irwin and William McDowell. Harrison was born in Ohio and served as a Brigadier General in the Union Army before embarking on a career in Indiana politics which led to the White House.

William McKinley
25th President, 1897-1901: Born in Ohio, the descendant of a farmer from Conagher, near Ballymoney, County Antrim, he was proud of his ancestry and addressed one of the national Scotch-Irish Congresses held in the late 19th century. His second term as President was cut short by an assassin's bullet.

Theodore Roosevelt
26th President, 1901-04: His mother, Martha Bulloch, had Ulster Scots ancestors who emigrated from Glenoe, County Antrim, in May 1729. Teddy Roosevelt's oft-repeated praise of his "bold and hardy race" is evidence of the pride he had in his Scotch-Irish connections.

Woodrow Wilson
28th President, 1913-21: Of Ulster-Scot descent on both sides of the family, his roots were very strong and dear to him. He was grandson of a printer from Dergalt, near Strabane, County Tyrone, whose former home is open to visitors. Throughout his career he reflected on the influence of his ancestral values on his constant quest for knowledge and fulfilment.

Richard Milhous Nixon
37th President, 1969-74: The Nixon ancestors left Ulster in the mid-18th century; the Quaker Milhous family ties were with County Antrim and County Kildare.

Ronald Reagan
40th President, 1981-88: Reagan was the second of two sons to John "Jack" Reagan, a Catholic of Irish American ancestry, and Nelle Wilson, who was of Scots-Irish and English descent. Prior to his immigration, the family name was spelled Regan. His maternal great-grandfather, John Wilson, also immigrated to the United States from Paisley, Scotland in the early 1800s.

Bill Clinton
42nd President, 1993-2001: President Clinton, whose connection is through his Blythe and Ayer ancestors, is of Scots Irish and Irish ancestry.

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 7:50 am

True. Plus many people mistakenly say Scotch-Irish. There are none of them except Irishmen who prefer to drink Scotch.

Post by **Minimalist** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 9:44 am

I've heard that there's a lot of them!

Forum Monk · Post by **Forum Monk** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 9:46 am

You could probably, pretty much insert the same list I posted previously as a starting point.

Digit · Post by **Digit** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 9:55 am

Particularly when they are looking for votes I expect.

Forum Monk · Post by **Forum Monk** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 7:42 am

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Joke page........................................................918
The Iliad: How Much Fact - How Much Fiction.......856
Olmec culture...................................................688
Marduks movie corner.......................................629
Stonehenge......................................................569
Hobbits Redux...................................................553
More Archaeology..............................................512
Early Migration...................................................464
Giza..................................................................456
Neanderthal DNA................................................442
Off Topic............................................................420
Pre-Columbian settlement....................................411
Contact Early Possible European Descendants.......397
Fingerprints of the Gods - Book Review.................390
Saharan Pottery.................................................386
The news page...................................................339
On The Tube......................................................325
Oh Christ!!........................................................313
Global warming..................................................306
I Guess She Didn't Like The Book........................291
Indus Valley Civilization.....................................275
Horny Cavemen................................................247
What Are We Looking At?....................................245
There's An Episode of Naked Science...................243
geology.............................................................223
PreClovis Artifacts from Central Texas- Part II......217
Mulitregional vs Out of Africa................................196
Ancient Agriculture..............................................183
Volcano !...........................................................178
Ancient Egyption science.....................................175
Texas Monkeys..................................................160
Stirring the Pot

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Evidence of the club...........................................156
We're Back!.......................................................153
Superwave Theory.............................................138
Noah's Ark FOUND..............................................122
Upheavals in the Third Millenium BCE...................115
Thank Goodness This Was In Mexico....................101
wiki alternative now online....................................90
Staggering Breakthrough......................................86
Art History (help).................................................84
Syro-Palestinian Archaeology................................78
I Don't Feel Like Looking For The Caral Thread.......76
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Hi Michelle, Mini, Frank and everybody...................59
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Caveman Real Estate Brokers...............................35
Mesoamerican Archaeology...................................29
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