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To: driftless2
On some websites it’s also considered an Irish surname as many Coulters settled in Counties Antrim and Down.

Exactly my point. The name and clan came from Scotland. Scottish Coulters may have settled in Ulster; but the name is Scottish; and Ulster has been since the time of the plantation like a different country, certainly with a different religion and allegiance to England, than Catholic Ireland, which contains the descendents of the aboriginal Irish peoples. Anne is a protestant and it is unlikely that her DNA goes back to the native Irish, but to the Scottish Coulters on her father's side.

50 posted on 02/16/2010 11:14:43 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Liberals love the poor so much they came up w/ a plan to create millions more of them. - Ann Coulter)
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To: Albion Wilde
"native Irish"

You have to remember that, according to some genealogists and historians, many Irish are descended from Norwegians. I heard an historian at the Milwaukee Irish Fest some years back give a lecture where he basically said Brian Boru and his warriors were Norwegians who repelled other Norwegians at the Battle of Clontarf. He got a laugh from the people listening.

51 posted on 02/17/2010 7:41:06 AM PST by driftless2 (for long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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