Hi Linda: I have Falley's book on Irish and Scot-Irish research--that's where I'm getting some of my information. I think I might need the Ulster Scot surname book. I have two ancestral branches who were in Maine in the early 1700s and I've been looking for them for quite awhile. I have seen two instances where Scotch-Irish people went to Maine from Pennsylvania and there may have been more. And there were some that went from New England to Penn. This in the 1700s. On one of your web sites there is a mention of "McCoun" being mentioned from Worcester Co., Massachusetts in the early 1700s. McCoun, is phonetically one of the families I am researching with very little success in Worcester Co, I can't even find anything on the Scotch-Irish in that area. My other brick wall is Hugh Holmes, Scotch-Irish descent from Newcastle, Maine, early to mid 1700s. This family may have been on the 5th ship that went to Maine 1718, OR, his family may have come over with Capt. Robert Temple or Gen. Samuel Waldo. thanks, Charles lmerle@comcast.net wrote: Hi Charles, have you read your Leyburn or those other books we mentioned? (Leyburn wrote a social history on the Scotch-irish). You can also look at our webpages (http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~merle where there is an overview of the history of the so called Scotch-Irish and search with google.