The term “Scots-Irish” refers to the descendants of the Scottish emigrants who migrated to the Irish Province of Ulster at the behest of the English crown. The Plantation of Ulster by Scots beginning in 1606 is a well-known established fact. While most of settlers were from the Scottish Lowlands, some, especially in the late sixteenth[…]Read more
Roberta Estes, author of DNA for Native American Genealogy, has written the following about Canada’s “First Nations.” “The Canadian government recognizes 634 First Nations bands who are similar to tribes in the United States, although the membership criteria is different. These bands comprise more than 2% of Canadian residents. “Like in the United States, benefits[…]Read more
We are little more than a week away from RootsTech Connect 2022, organized by FamilySearch.org. Due to Covid, and as in 2021, the annual RootsTech conference will be entirely online. Last’s year virtual conference was viewed by over a million genealogists from around the world, marking it as the largest genealogy event in history. RootsTech[…]Read more
For decades, archeologists and anthropologists have posited that migrants from East Asia populated the Americas by navigating seaworthy crafts in the Pacific Ocean or by crossing over the Bering Sea land bridge that used to connect Asia and Alaska. In recent years genetic testing has confirmed these theories by revealing the existence of haplogroups that[…]Read more
The 1685 revocation of the Edict of Nantes by France’s King Louis XIV, prompted a mass exodus of between 400,000 and 2 million French Protestants, i.e., Huguenots. Fearing for their lives, the Huguenots dispersed to the Dutch Republic, Prussia, Denmark, England, South Africa, and the French and English colonies of the New World. The Huguenot diaspora[…]Read more
Dr. Ida Jones is University Archivist at Morgan State University. She recently prepared the following review of Margaret D. Pagan’s new book, African American News in the Baltimore Sun, 1870-1927. The review not only summarizes and appraises Mrs. Pagan’s publication but also describes the context for news about African Americans in what had been the[…]Read more
We were pleased to receive positive feedback on three of our most popular titles of the second half of 2021: DNA for Native American Genealogy, by Roberta Estes; Scottish Genealogy: The Basics and Beyond, by Dr. David Dobson; and List of Free African Americans in the American Revolution, by Paul Heinegg. We are happy to[…]Read more
Now in its 7th Edition, the International Vital Records Handbook (IVRH) has always provided researchers with a convenient, current source of application forms for ordering birth, marriage, death, and divorce certificates for decades. The 7th Edition has all the forms and/or addresses researchers need, but it also has been expanded to include information available in[…]Read more
The following article was adapted from the Introduction to Mr. Coldham’s definitive account of the claims awarded to American colonists by the British crown following the Revolutionary War. For more information about events leading to the establishment of the American Claims Commission, as well as thousands of Loyalist sketches of the claimants themselves, see Mr.[…]Read more
The settlement of the Canadian Province of Ontario began in earnest following the American Revolutionary War. As most U.S. genealogists know, thousands of Loyalists left our new nation after the British surrender at Yorktown in 1781, for the shores of Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River in Canada. Until that time, and the with[…]Read more
