Maybe I'm Not That Irish Afterall
Recently I checked by Ancestry.com account as they periodically update the genetic findings. At my last check my Irish heritage seemed much higher. But it's interesting how this update seems to affirm something my mother may have told me many years before. She mentioned that our background was, in part, "Scots-Irish" (although she, and others, often referred to it as "Scotch-Irish"). In this latest update my profile is now only 8% Irish, but 28% Scottish. But here's the interesting part. If you click on "What does this map show?" regarding the map graphic to the left, they break down the regions with regard to the percentage of Scottish heritage among locals. In the 25% to 50% category one of the colored regions associated with that was the northeast corner of Ireland, the area associated with the "Ulster Irish" or "Scot-Irish." Back in 2014 my eldest daughter and her husband gave me a book The Other Irish - The Scots-