[NavyCanDo]

Thanks for the link. This is one for me to bookmark. Always looking for more info on my Ulster Scot ancestors.
My Grandfather move from Arkansas to the West Coast during the great depression, a real Grapes of Wrath story. He claimed to be, what he called Black Irish because of his darker complexion and dark hair that my Dad carried also. After doing research it seems in all likelihood our ancestors were Ulster Scots, which would make seem to make sense because the darker Irish generally were found in Northern Ireland, the location of Ulster.

[Little Bill]

I am a quarter Scots Irish. I was at my Grand daughters birthday party a week ago, her mother is Irish and Scots- Irish, my son is English, Irish, Scots Irish, Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian, God help the lesser nations if she is elected to office.

[FierceDraka]

Black Irish, right here!

I can usually tell one of my distant kinfolk by their hair color (black) and skin tone (darker than the average Euro), with dark brown eyes. When I talk to them I find that their ancestors came up from the South to Indiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, just like my own did.

Howdy, Cousin!

[litehaus]

"the darker Irish"

Sumtin in memory says that was because sum spanish blood got up/over there.....