Wow, I didn't know in my ignorance that Scot-Irish was ever used as an identifier. In honesty, however, the census I needed to confirm origin for those in my surname groups were in the 1700's--before 1850 and If birth place was a representative column for the particular census (for mine at least) birth place or origin were always listed simply listed as Ireland or Scotland. When did the census bureau begin to list former Ulster residents as Scot-Irish? Susan On 1/17/2012 3:00 AM, scotch-irish-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Lost Identity? (RKMacmaster@aol.com) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:52:25 -0500 (EST) > From: RKMacmaster@aol.com > Subject: [S-I] Lost Identity? > To: scotch-irish@rootsweb.com > Message-ID:<1944.3f439dc0.3c460429@aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > We're all familiar with discussions of Scots-Irish or Scotch-Irish as more > correct. Eliminate both? Read this story from the Belfast Telegraph: > > _http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/mps- > fury-as-us-drops-scotsirish-from-census-list-16104086.html_ > (http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/mps-fury-as-us-drops > -scotsirish-from-census-list-16104086.html) > > Richard > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the SCOTCH-IRISH list administrator, send an email to > SCOTCH-IRISH-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the SCOTCH-IRISH mailing list, send an email to SCOTCH-IRISH@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of SCOTCH-IRISH Digest, Vol 7, Issue 9 > ****************************************** >