Hi folks, if you are beginning, here's a couple books to ease in. Billy Kennedy has written a series of books on the Scotch-Irish. One is "Faith and Freedom" and another "Scots-Irish in Pennsylvania and Kentucky". You can find them at Amazon. Another on Carolina is "Carolina Cradle: Settlement of the Northwest Carolina Frontier 1747-1762" by Robert W. Ramsey. This book transcribes many early records. One example is p 128: John Smith, who may have emigrated from Nottingham Township, Chester County, who died before 1763. p. 127: the tombstone of William Niblock in the Third Creek cemetery is inscribed to indicate he was a native of Scotland who migrated to Rowan Co in 1750 and died in 1761. In 1754 he bought 350 acres on Withrow's Creek. The name doesn't appear in the records of Maryland and the middle colonies, so Ramsey assumes he came 'direct'. A John Knox appears who m ay have migrated from Somerset Co, Maryland or Colerain, Ireland to Pennslyvaina. A footnote provides records from the Maryland calendar of wills and various militia records, a book on the Knox family, etc, etc.... P. 50 describes 4 Alexander families who settled in New Munster, on the east side of the Elk River in Cecil Co, Maryland before 1715 and identifies a number of their sons who contributed to the migrations. James Alexander migrated from there to Lancaster Co, PA before 1737 (from Lancaster common pleas dockets) and he and his son were in the Shenandoah Valley in 1747 and in Carolina three years later. Book is FULL of info on migrations of families. "The Peopling of British North America" by Bernard Bailyn is a good introduction to migration. Linda Merle