Quote Originally Posted by cajunscot View Post
Kentucky has a large Scots-Irish population. The Scots-Irish were largely Lowland Scots who immigrated to Northern Ireland (Ulster) before pushing on to North America, where they settled in the backcountry and pushed through the Cumberland Gap to KY and TN. You will also find a mixture of English, Welsh, Highlanders, German and French Protestant blood intermingled with them. They are "Irish" only in the fact that they formerly resided in Ireland, but not necessarily in culture or religion.

The best way to determine the answer to your question is to trace your genealogy back to Scotland to see when your people came from.

T.
That is something I hadn't heard of.

My mother's family is from the mountains of Kentucky, Park(s). My (slim) Scottish heritage is from her great grandmother, a Steele. We always assumed that the Scotch name was from a long time ago or such. Would be interesting that my mother's family might be Scots-Irish instead of just Irish like we always thought. Unfortunely her family is bad about records so we have no real way to trace beyond the Greats.

Jim