How do I find out about my Scot-Irish roots, I mean where did my Scot people come from to be now Scot-Irish ?

Answer 1

You are Scot-Irish its a American term they are not called that in Britian they are the Ulster Scots they started to call them selves Scots-Irish to make a difference between them and the later Irish immigrants that came later on to America. Ulster Scots are differents now researching them is slow but worth it that my fathers family they are mostly protestant and usually Presbyterians from the Ayrshire and Argyll districts of Scotland. Parish records in Scotland is what I have focused on and also the Covenanters lists they also had to pay a certian tax for there faith. Now here in America to research Scot-Irish blood use Land grants,Probates and Baptisms records,and sometime Military records usually Militia.
Until you can locate these records it will be extremely hard to make the connection over seas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covenanters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots-Irish_America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster-Scots

If you need any help feel free to email me through my profile
always a pleasure to help a fellow Scot.

Answer 2

the answers you got are good but I'd like to comment about the time before the English confused everything. The Irish, Scots and Welsh were related Celtic tribes, that settled in different areas of the same region (the Brittish Isles). The original English, the Brits, were also related Celts. This was prior to the Roman invasion.

Answer 3

After the flight of the O'Donnell and O'Neill earls, Scots were planted in Ireland during the time of Elizabeth I. They were called covenanters.

When their descendants immigrated to the American shores, they were identified as Scotch-Irish, meaning they were racially Scottish but their geographic origin was Ireland.

Those that came during colonial days came with as bitter of hatred toward Mother England as the Catholic Irish did. They were gung ho for the American Revolution. They were called Rabid Radicals Ready for Revolution.

Now, you have to understand that the Celts were in Ireland first. Legend has it they came Spain for a time and then were in Egypt for about 100 years
before going almost straight north to Ireland. Ireland was at one time called Scotia.

Then Celts from Ireland migrated to Caledonia (Scotland) so the Scots and the Irish are close cousins but not entirely the same people as the native people in what is now Scotland and Ireland before the Celts were not the same people.

My father had both orange and green Irish. His paternal grandmother was a descendant of (not a direct descendant)Andrew Jackson. Andrew Jackson did not have any direct descendants.

Answer 4

Only 12 miles of Irish Sea in some places separate Scotland from Ireland, so when the British Crown offered canny Lowland peasants the opportunity to lease "virgin" land--only occupied by the native, Roman Catholic Irish--for a term of 21 years, many of them accepted particularly since landlords were driving up their rents.

Religious persecution during Charles' I reign, as he tried to foust the Anglican episcopacy upon the Presbyterian Scots, accelerated the emigration process. During these "killing times", thousands of Covenanters would escape to the "relative calm" of Northern Ireland, bringing their Presbyterianism with them. Of course, their martyardom in defense of the Kirk made them resist aligning themselves with the native Roman Catholic Irish. Furthermore, Oliver Cromwell's invasion of Ireland didn't help matters. In summary, two very similar ethnic groups, both embittered towards each other, both feeling themselves put upon, and both despising the English resulted. Between 1717 and the American Revolution a quarter of a million Ulster [Protestant] Irish made their way to America, among them the families of Patrick Henry, Andrew Jackson, Davy Crockett, and Sam Houston. Since English settlers already occupied the coastal areas, these Irish of Scots' descent pushed into the interior. [Highland Scots forced off their land by enclosures would come to America from about 1750 to 1850, the largest number arriving during the 1790s].

Although many an Ulster Scot began his or her life in America as an indentured servant, by the 1840s when their grandchildren noticed a wave of starving Roman Catholic Irish peasants crowding into the urban centers of Boston and New York, those who had formerly called themselves "Irish" wished to differentiate themselves from these newcomers and started calling themselves "Scotch-Irish". Of course, in some cases, for instance, Ronald Reagan, the two groups eventually intermarried. Isn't America grand? Tis' indeed!

Answer 5

Scots whose parents/ancestors migrated to northern Ireland for some period of time and who themselves were born Ireland, are those who are called Scotch-Irish.

How you learn about your roots there in Ireland and maybe more importantly how much you can learn may depend upon timing: WHEN you need to learn about.