Where Have All the Scots Irish Gone? Numbers Way Down

Posted by admin on Jan 16, 2015

The 2013 census survey showed 3 million Americans with Scots Irish ancestry in 2013. That’s way down from 5.4 million in the 2006 census.

It is not clear what caused the drop, but it does seem that Scots Irish ancestry is far less valued than it used to be or people are just referring to Irish ancestry if the census figures are correct. In 2013 33 million Americans were of Irish descent according to the latest figures. The combined total is 36 million of Irish extraction if you include the 3 million Scots Irish.

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Anonymous user
3/27/15

For one thing the Scottish left by many during a war in Scotland and they went to Ireland. that was in the 1700’s. My MacDonald’s did the same thing and then, in the early 1800’s mine went to Nova Scotia where he and his sons (they born in NS) were in the 84th reg from Nova Scotia during the American Revolutionary War.
I am not a genealogist by profession but have been doing mine and others for 70 years now and I found so many of the professionals don’t know a damn thing about tracing families.
On one of your shows you did a Dickinson and boy you were really wrong. I have my Dickinson’s back to the 700’s and on up to my ggreatgrandmother.
And there were 3 brothers who came to the USA in the early 1600’s Nathaniel, Thomas and my John.


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