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Glad to see Jamie here. I have Ulster Scots (and perhaps Ulster English?) ancestry who arrived in PA/ VA in the 1730s. The migration paths in the US seem to be entirely the Southern to Out West route.

Surnames I know best: Cunningham, McIlvane, Cargile, Barnes, Johnston, perhaps Ross, likely Jackson.

I found this quote about timelines:

As stated in one source, "There were five time periods when the Scots-Irish emigrated in large numbers: 1717-18, when a destructive drought killed crops, the linen industry was crippled and rack-renting prevailed; 1725-29, when continued rack-renting and poverty prompted such a massive departure that even the English Parliament became concerned (it feared losing Protestant majority in the area); 1740-41, when a famine struck and letters from relatives living in America were persuasive; 1754-55, a time of a disastrous drought; and 1771-1775, when leases on the large estate of the marquis of Donegal in County Antrim expired and the tenants couldn't afford to renew them. Years when economic pressures in Ireland were the greatest were when large exoduses occurred. The numbers dropped during the years of the French and Indian Wars (1754-63) and came to a crashing halt during the American Revolution.

Our McDermott line was from Down. Patrick at the age of 12yrs. Stowed away to NewYork, became an Engineer, ended up in Louisiana, given 2000 acres by the Mexican government. Owned slaves. Married Emily Ozan.Charles famous for first patent of Airplane, graduate of Yale trained as a Doctor of Medicine, also a Slave owner, but progressive... giving all in the household the same education, the finest tutors of the time.

Hi all. I have a ridiculous number of Ulster Scots in my family... My father's surname is Baird - but my grandmother on my mother's side was a Johnston(e) and I always considered her less Scottish - everyone came over in the 1700s for the most part. HA! She's got Johnstons, Montgomerys, Hunters, Deans, Caldwells, Logan, Dudgeon, Ried/Reed - It's like this incredible diaspora - clannish doesn't even do it justice! Suffice to say my dad's genes came back ~9% Scottish (though his Y DNA is pure Celtic). Mine came back 25% Scottish... my grandmother was darned near 100% Scottish genetically. Anyhow - I haven't added anyone into the project yet because I don't want to mess anything up. What sort of documentation do we need? Is the DAR record sufficient?

Private User Do we want a date / event cut off? In other words, resident at the Ulster Plantation?

Oh yeah -- I'd just put in the people who were born in Ulster - not descendants