If you have Scots-Irish in your background, you may find this newsletter of interest to you. (_http://www.ulsterancestry.com/ua-free-pages.php_ (http://www.ulsterancestry.com/ua-free-pages.php) ) Remove the parens before you cut and paste. Rootsweb does not like *raw* URLs. Remember - before 1922, all Irishmen were Irishmen--at least, in the US censuses!!! My County Down fellow just parachuted into the western Kentucky county of Trigg by 1820. This is when his marriage to a lady born in North Carolina is recorded. He always gave the birthplace as Ireland in the 1850 and 1860 censuses. He may have been one of the literate persons in that Kentucky territory in 1820 as he soon became an election official!!! Nowadays there is Northern Ireland, under the jurisdiction of the British government, and then there is the Republic of Ireland, an independent nation. One belongs to the European Common Market [or whatever it is now called] and the other does not. In the main, Catholic Irish did not come to these shores until the Great Famine in the 1840s and in 1850s. However, like every rule, there are exceptions. If one reads the patents in Cavaliers and Pioneers, one may see a transported person, sometimes not named, as Irishman!!! Perhaps his language was not understandable to the Englishman making the list!!! E.W.Wallace