For Janelle Asselin, it started with 10 pages of family records, tales of ancestors that spanned Ireland, Canada and the United States. After a decade of research, she eventually found that John ...

Genealogical Publishing Company has recently issued a Quicksheet that will be of help to many researchers. It is titled “Scots-Irish Genealogy Research” at a glance. The actual number of Americans ...

Like more than 27 million other Americans (myself included), they are descendants of Scots-Irish (or Scotch-Irish) immigrants to the United States. For years, I mistakenly assumed that the term ...

A patronymic surname is one that is derived from a person’s father’s first name. At some point in history many patronymic surnames were adopted as permanent, inherited surnames, and so they survive ...

Just how common is your surname and where does it come from?

Genealogist Barry Griffin used data from the 1901 and 1911 Irish censuses to plot out surnames on the map of Ireland More than 6,000 Irish surnames are included on a website compiled by genealogist ...

Thousands of global Scots are using the Big Y‑700 DNA test to uncover clan ancestry, confirm deep Scottish roots and spark emotional journeys ...