In a message dated 5/30/2003 11:58:12 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > If anyone is interested in reading material about the Scots Irish, there are > a number of books on the market, most are published by Genealogical > Publishing Co. of Baltimore, MD. I own a number of books, and would be > happy to share my bibliography with those who are interested. > > Hi Sharon, I haven't read your post carefully, but am very interested in the Ulster compilation underway, as I have some of "those" folks. With respect to sources, I would recommend (on the recommendations of many others): Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America by <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books%26field-author=Fischer%2C%20David%20Hackett/104-1610328-9461555">David Hackett Fischer</A> . It is at most major libraries, and while criticized for over-generalizing (especially on the Scots-Irish angle, which is really Anglo>Scots-Irish), it is a very good and popular and respected summary. As one reviewer said, and I paraphrase, "if Fischer and generalized then we historians couldn't pick it all apart with various details (and we live for doing that as anyone knows)." My maiden name is Sexton, which appears (surprisingly) primarily as a surname in Ireland, and my mother's line probably connects back to a Darby in Eastern NC. However, as near as I can figure out my mother is a compilation of early Anglo emigrants to MD/VA/NC, and later motley crew of Anglos/Welsh, about 50 percent of whom emigrated from Ireland or Scotland, but only after two generations from England. She has at least one known/documented German immigrant (Couts/Kauts -- Nancy (Couts) Bird in in the 1850s Dade Co. census_, and possibly more I'm working on.) Best Regards, Janet Hunter