[Little Bill]

All your American Harps out there, Help!

[2ndDivisionVet]

Austrian here, so I only speak Austrian, can’t help you.

[sauropod]

I haven’t done the DNA thing yet, but my ancestors on my father’s side were Scotch-Irish.

[freedumb2003]

Scottish Gentile — Mac Goyim...

[posterchild]

I haven’t done the tests but I am at least 4/1461 irish.

[dblshot]

I highly recommend James Webb's The Fighting Scots Irish. I was able to find stories that linked to my wife's family. My mother was a McGee, grandpa however didn't hang around much and they immigrated to Canada. My wife's middle name is Boone, a descendant of Daniel through one of his indian wives. Family moved from Kentucky to Ohio. Another good book in this area is Riding With The Devil which brings the Scots down the whisky trail from Philadelphia into the hollers of Appalacia where they could grow corn and make whisky. Washingotn had the Whisky Rebellion to deal with. Eventually these people transporting shine hopped up their 39 Fords and such to out run the revenuers, got into showing off their fast cars and spawned NASCAR. They are the reason the cross of St' Andrew is on the Confederate flag which as you know is well displayed at NASCAR events.

[Darren McCarty]

McCoy is USUALLY Scottish, although it could be Irish. (Mac Aodha is the old Irish - roughly translates to fire). McGaughey is usually Irish (Horseman). McCaughey is definitely Irish. Mac hEochaidh. (Son of Eochaidh.) It's pronounced Owey.

[Montanabound]

I first thought this was a thread about country singer Neal McCoy. His real name is McGaughey, pronounced “McGoy”, but everyone was mispronouncing it as “McCoy” when he was starting his career, so he just went ahead and changed it. (His father was of Irish descent, and his mother is from the Philippines.)

[Eric Roelfsema]

I am pure blooded Dutch. I have been working on my family trees for over a dozen years already. It is not the easiest to get info on the Dutch in some provinces, as well as here in the USA after the US Census of 1940.

[brooklyn dave]

My grandmother’s parents were Harps from the North of Ireland—Co. Derry (or Londonderry according to the side of the road u live on)—she was O’Connor (not a common name up there—much more a southern name) but I have found strange names up in Derry that were Catholic Logue (my great grandmother’s surname —catholic name only in Donegal and Derry Grieve A Derry catholic surname in towns and country side as you head toward Tyrone. Granny had cousins named McKinney but heard there were Protestant McKinneys as well. There was a family named DunnI had met who were Protestant—spelled Dunn (Catholics down south spell it with an E at the end same for the name Browne and Clarke)
Another funny name up in Derry and Tyrone is Askin. The Gaelic language it seems died out in my grandmother’s part of Derry possibly before the time of the Famine—also it seems as though way back then there were more Protestant families. The Protestants didn’t have as many kids and some families died out—or if they weren’t so well off—they emigrated as well. Catholics (many Gaelic speaking from Co. Donegal came to work in Derry City and sometimes the country as well) Much earlier in the late 1600s even into very early 1700s there were Scottish Gaelic congregations of Presbyterians. For all its worth!