Going through my mail this morning I read with interest the Scotch-Irish information. I appreciate the person sharing this with the list because I have more than one line that comes from this great origin. I thought I would share with you some information that was given to me just last week by a wonderful 83 year old historian and researcher who is in my DAR chapter. This is what she has to say about "Scotch-Irish". She said that the word Scotch is a word meaning "tight wad". She then proceeded to tell me that we should use the term "Irish-Scots" instead of "Scotch-Irish". This group of "Irish-Scots" had fled Ireland and settled in Scotland before coming to America. I highly respect this woman. I would like some feed back on her statement.