Scotch-Irish Settlers in America, 1500s-1800s Immigration Records

If you've got ancestors of Scotch-Irish descent, you'll want to explore the 13 volumes of research data available here. Discover which of the 215,000 individuals named will find a place in your family tree, while you flesh out existing research. Among these significant volumes you'll find three out-of-print sources, including Ford's "The Scotch-Irish in America," a text which provides an essential historical perspective. You'll also find a collection of Pennsylvania genealogies from Chester county, a location historically scarce in genealogical source material.

United States history is a tale of immigrants and the Scotch-Irish are no exception. Many of the sources here are immigration and naturalization records. Passenger and immigration lists can be an invaluable primary source for tracing the vast majority of immigrants to the United States, particularly in the 19th century. With the single exception of federal census records they are the largest, the most continuous, and the most uniform body of records for the entire country.

As primary sources, passenger lists and naturalization records are frequently the only references to an immigrant ancestor's past that can be sourced with high confidence. For American genealogists, these records may also serve as the breakthrough clues needed to link their family trees back to a distant point of origin.

You may obtain the following information from this data set:

• Name of individuals
  
• Names of family members
  
• Locations in Ireland, Scotland, and America
  
• Source information
  
• Ship names
  
• Details of vital events
  
• Court records
  
• Details of migratory patterns
  

Books Included in this Archive

Scotch Irish Pioneers In Ulster and America
Charles Knowles Bolton

The Scotch-Irish. Or the Scot in North Britain, North Ireland and North America. 2 volumes.
Charles A. Hanna

Scots-Irish Links, 1575-1725. 2 volumes.
David Dobson

The Scotch-Irish in America
Henry Jones Ford

Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County, 1745-1800. 3 volumes.

Lyman Chalkley

The Scotch-Irish of Colonial Pennsylvania
Wayland F. Dunaway

Pennsylvania Genealogies, Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German. 2nd edition
William Henry Egle

Vital Records of Londonderry, New Hampshire, 1719-1910
Daniel Gage Annis

Scotch-Irish Migration to South Carolina, 1772: Rev. William Martin and His Five Shiploads of Settlers
Jean Stephenson