I'm also from those Ulster Scots (American Scots-Irish). There's a Carnahan (maternal great grandmother) in there somewhere that settled in Kentucy in the mid 1750s. A branch of them came west - homesteading in the aftermath of the Civil War.

Lots of Scots Irish families seem to have settled in the Apalachian Mountains back when that was the western frontier of the colonies.

Cleared, deported, jumped ship, indentured, trying to esacpe famine, immigrating - whatever. Let's face it, we are a motley, hardy and thick headed bunch. And there's a huge part of North American (US/Canada) culture - from our stubborn independence to our music that you can trace back to the various branches of Celtic culture.

Let's hear it for the mutts and hybrid vigor LOL