John, I'm glad you had a good time at your Symposium and that it was very interesting. Plus that you got something out of it. I was curious about the idea of Scotch Irish originating with a single person. Were you told who that person was? Or where that person lived? I doubt very much that an Irish Catholic would marry a Protestant. We had a journalist speak at our local genealogical society and she had lived in Northern Ireland for two years. She said, no way would a Catholic marry a Protestant and stay in Northern Ireland. They would have been murdered. Last year, our society had a seminar aboard the Queen Mary. One of our speakers was a woman speaking on the "Scotch Irish." She was speaking on the history of these peoples, not on them today. My job was to send out publicity which I did. I got an email back from some woman who took me "to task" because of our speaker's subject "Scotch Irish." She wanted me to know that she was Scots Irish not Scotch Irish. I tried to explain to the woman what the speaker was trying to do. In the next email to me, the woman accused us of being "unamerican" and demanded that the speaker change her subject and we had to change all our publicity and our brochure. This was one week before the seminar. I wrote back, trying to be nice, explaining to her that it was impossible. The next email I received from her was a personal threat. I ignored her email and never heard from her again. Today, after 9/11, I would have turned her threat over to my local Police Dept and to the FBI. I'm curious also what happens to Chalkley's books on the Scotch Irish and the book written about the Scotch Irish in Pennsylvania (I can't remember the author's name or the title?) By the way, Chalkley's books on the Scotch Irish also contain information on other nationalities as well. I found my Penns and Phillips in the books. Thanks, John. Annie