The Appalachians: The Scotch-Irish / Scots-Irish
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- From the documentary The Appalachians. The Presbyterian Scots-Irish from Ulster in the north of Ireland influenced this region of America with their music,religion, moonshine, independent spirit & love of freedom.
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These people are our blood and they are welcome to come back and visit any time. Greetings from UK & Ireland.
Thanks BLACK. That'd be me. Father's side was 100% Irish, came to USA in 1784 from Armagh, Northern Ireland, settled in Georgia. Mother's side was Bri'ish, and she was about 1/2 French/Acadian. I had DNA test done last year. I'm Irish, 30% Scandinavian (I reckon them pillaging, raping Vikings got around, eh?), 20% French. My Grandparents talked like old fashioned Irishmen.
Thank you Hamilton is my maiden name your welcome her greetings from the south USA
You'd be the first to be so welcoming from across the pond! I've joined quite a few Irish, Scottish, and Welsh genealogy groups. Needless to say, they're not so friendly. Thank you 💕
@@takayama1638
These people aren't Irish! - hence their hatred for all things Irish! They maintained that the Irish were nothing to do with the Scots! - DNA (as in your case!) has proved them wrong.
Maury
To any of you over the pond in the USA, from scots irish decent, a massive hello from an ulster scot in northern ireland, you got out at the right time lolol have a beezer day
I realized we were likely Ulster Scots. Here we are referred to as Scots Irish which in a way, I guess, is like African American. We are most likely of Scot’s ancestry but from Ireland (though perhaps there was some Irish intermarriage from the time we dipped our toes in Ireland and then came here likely a bit before the Revolutionary War). My surname is Moore and I have tried to figure out definitively whether that is Scots or Irish or both and how one tells. Perhaps you know? Also, in the hollow in Virginia where my Dad was from, there were people named: Cox, Blackwell and Holley. Some of those names sound English to me. You wrote six months ago so you may not get this which is fine. I have been to Ireland - but not Northern - though my brother and daughter have made it there on separate trips. It is beautiful as was Scotland. Best.
Hello, yes we have good friends here in belfast with the surname moore, thanks for the reply, some of the names you mentioned do come from here and england also, our actual ancestry is scotch, irish and a touch of viking from a thousand years ago, good luck and God bless
Greetings from Maryland. I am on a journey of rediscovering my roots. Started this in my late 60s, but better late than never, eh?
Good luck on your search
@@northernirishviking7283 Thank you!
My parents were from W Va. My dad of German heritage, my mom Scots. My grandad Buchanan used to tell me stories about how his ancestors came to W Va from Scotland after “the 45”. He was a coal miner and they were so poor that when the depression hit they didn’t even notice. I’m proud that my ancestors were these rugged people who helped make this country.
I'm Douglas Buchanan from Glasgow. We might be cousins haha. Have a great New year across the pond
You have to ask yourself WHY these people are so poor. They're poor because they have been subjugated and ripped off by the American Capitalist Class. The New York bankers sent salesmen to the mountains in the 1870s and 1880s in order to get these people to sign over the timber rights and the mineral rights of their land. When coal was discovered, the capitalists moved in and evicted a countless number of families from their land, pushed them into coal camps, and made them work like slaves, in the mines, where tens of thousands of them lost their lives. The miners rose up many times and were gunned down by the coal companies. This all came to a height in 1921 at the Battle of Blair Mountain, when the "Redneck Army" surrounded Baldwin Feltz gun thugs, and were on the verge of crushing them when the US Government sent in the Army to protect the coal companies and the private security agencies.
@Scot60 Lol my great grandmas last name was Buchanan. Who knows, we might be distantly related
They skipped WV in the intro
@Stephanie Gonzalez be careful of your judgement...
My Scottish ancestors first settled in the Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina. They then meandered their way through the Mountains of North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. By the 19th Century, they settled in the Appalachian Mountains of Eastern Kentucky.
I was always told that the Appalachian Mountains reminded our ancestors of their homeland which is why they settled there.
Thanks for sharing this video!
Scots-Irish Cherokee here. Proud of my heritage! I'd love to go to Scotland and visit our family's land.
beutiful country and warm people you would be welcome linda in scotland
@@jameswilson3991 Thank you! God bless you!
Welcome 🌹🏴
Yes! Scots-Irish, English and Dakota Indian here. Also a little French. My Scots-Irish Grandpa was the one with a twinkle in his eye.
A lot of us ended up mixing with Cherokee. My family settled right on the border of Cherokee country... got along well. Was a shame when Georgia was taken from them.
Scots-Irish, Welsh, Native American. Grandparents and all our family before them lived and thrived in the Appalachian Mtns. I’m grateful for all their hard work & sacrifices.
I'm a Ballentine and live in East Tennessee. My umpteenth great grandfather Dougal arrived in North Carolina in the 1730s. He was Scots Irish. My grandmother was a MacPherson, her father was a Stuart, so the Scottish and Scots Irish side on my father's side is about as solid as it gets. My Mother was a Jones bring in the Welsh. I remember a college professor commenting on my stubbornness and sometimes quick temper. He asked about my family background, and I told him Scots Irish and Welsh. He laughed and said as long as I didn't start a war I was beating the odds! Lol
Pennsylvania ridge runner here.
Scots-Irish,Mohawk, Welsh,English, little bit French& Dutch.
Heinz 57 variety as my grandfather would say.
Allegheny mtns. Warren, Pa area.
Beautiful there.
Exactly my heritage
Last name Groves maybe????
From those of US who know, I completely agree❤, We are the descendants of true Fortitude of Will, & combined bloodlines from the Giants of America ~Freedom or Death
From Scotland to Ireland to America to the Appalachians. What a remarkable story! The Scots-Irish need more recognition in American history!!
Jeffrey Lundberg They get far more than they deserve now.
pat mallory More than they deserve? They forged the westward migration. I'd say it's quite well deserved. American culture of self-reliance is deep rooted from this.
Jeffrey Lundberg
I think the Native-Americans need to be appreciated more, people who hardly anyone took notice of before Walt Disney brought them a bit of fame in the 90's,
pat mallory What an odd thing to say. Care to expunge?
Can that be done with words?
My family has lived in the rolling hills of Appalachia since the 1700’s. Scottish Irish immigrants (on both sides of my family) who kept pushing through the mountains and finally made it to the Blue Ridge Mountains. Glad my family’s history is finally being talked about. We’re usually forgotten, so this means the world to me.
not as forgotten as the natives americans forced out of those lands
@@boohoo54 some married....My grandmother was a half-breed....she was a pretty woman.
My family started there, kept moving south...and then west from Georgia to Texas...
We in Ulster certainly don't forget. We're proud of how our ancestors helped build the greatest nation to ever exist.
The Irish Catholic culture dominates both jurisdictions on the island with Ulster-Scots being pushed to one side. Just remember when you celebrate St Patrick's Day, the Irish population in the Irish Republic, Northern Ireland, and North America don't recognise YOU or your heritage.
There's almost a fascist, irredentist undertone to it.
@@boohoo54 Thank you = Kenah in Powhatan
It's "Scots-Irish," not "Scotch-Irish" as so many have said in this video. Scotch is the drink, Scots are the people.
I was sternly but patiently corrected by a elderly Scots woman 50 years, and have never forgotten the lesson. My ancestors were Scots-Irish.
Yes.
Eirenach and Albanach are brothers.
But it is true that the "Scots" like their scotch, like the French, like they're French toast.
My Glasgow born grandmother, (born in 1880) and arrived in the USA in the very early 1900's, always used the term "Scotch" to describe herself and blamed English snobbery for insisting upon forcing people to use "Scot" or "Scottish" . She made her own children follow that tradition. Of course, she did the same to her grandchildren. Now, in order to be politically correct, I tend to use the pinkies up English infulenced terms , but always remember what my wonderful grandmother taught me was the "correct" word.
Traditions certainly are fascinating!
"Influenced", sorry for the typo!
I’m proud to be an Appalachian from Tennessee/Georgia. I’m learning the fiddle, when I hear that old music it brings tears to my eyes, it’s in my soul and deep in the marrow of my bones. True love. I’d love to travel but I will come to these hills to die and Rest In Peace.
Same
oh so you're native american?
I love it here. Glad to be born and raised here.
Oh, my. Your feelings are easy to understand. The music is so strong that I would love to call that area home.
@@boohoo54 who is Native American
What a tangled web we all are. I’m Scots-English-Irish and proud of it. Listening to this video made me feel like he was talking about me and my ancestors, which he was. Stubborn, proud, intelligent hardworking people who’ll give you the shirt off of their backs but GOD help you if you don’t live up to your word. I enjoyed this video immensely! Thank you.
Your one of the few americans who mention English dna, its asif people are ashamed which I find truly bizarre. People romanticise Ireland Scotland and Wales so much in America. You will get hit with a hard reality slap if you visit any of these countries and try to talk about ancestry
My ancestors were Scots-Irish, but I never knew the origination of that phrase. Thanks so much for this video!
My dad always said the same thing about our ancestry. This video is so helpful.
Well this makes sense from a musicology point of view. Traditional music from this region and bluegrass have a lot in common with Celtic music.
Bluegrass is the greatest deep-roots American music.
Bluegrass is a mixture of Celtic, Irish folk and African blues music. You can hear all of the influences.
@@char08fal scottish folk
So does our dancing
@@brucecollins4729 She is correct, our blues was mixed in as well
PROUD TO BE APPALACHIAN AMERICAN ... THESE ROOTS RUN DEEP , WE MAY BE A POOR PEOPLE BUT WE ARE RICH IN SPIRIT , WE LOVE DEEP , WE RUN STRONG AND WE DEAL WITH STRUGGLE AND HARDSHIP LIKE MEN OF OLD , WE HAVE LITTLE BUT WE FIND LOTS IN OUR PEOPLE ...TODD COLLETT
todd collett same here.
todd collett my grandma was Irish harriette Dutton and my family were considered hill billies the life they showed me growing up was beautiful and peaceful, this world we live in today is all about material and money and it doesn’t make me happy at all I would trade money for happiness any day
Echoed by a boy from Donegal (Dun Na nGall - Den/Fort of the Foreigners - Vikings mostly). - An Irishman abroad who loves America.
Do you feel proud of your Lawson side? Or are you stuck only in the land of Dutton?
todd collett. From the Appalachian Mountains here 🙌🙌🙌👊👊
This North Carolina girl with some Scottish ancestry went to Scotland a couple years ago. I felt oddly at home. The mountains felt like our mountains. And they are the same mountain range! People say the accent is hard to understand. I had no problem understanding the accent for the most part. Maybe that's only because of the particular places we visited, I don't know. Point is, I want to go back and explore more of this place where I feel like I belong. Is there such a thing as hidden ancestral memories?
I think there is. I was born in the north (US), but drawn to the Highlands and the Appalachians.
That because the Appalachian mountain range is the same is as Scottish highland mountains
@@blue_boy244 Exactly. The Appalachians were once part of the Central Pangean Mountains. After the breakup of Pangea, the CPM became the Appalachians, the Scottish Highlands, the Scandinavian Mountains, and the Little Atlas. Even the Ouachita Mountains are part of this. They were part of the Appalachians until the formation of the Mississippi Embayment separated them.
Please all of you young’ins, if you want to go to Scotland go now. Don’t wait or have someone dictate that you wait, I’m older now at almost 67. I don’t walk very well and in constant pain. So, this lady will dream of Scotland, I’ll be there walking in the highlands. I did live, camp and love in the Appalachia. I am from SC, where the Scottish did settle in large numbers. I live in GA now about 20 miles from Darian, one of the oldest Scottish settlements in the USA. I am Scottish on all four sides and beyond. It does my heart good to see you all so excited about this video. Martha MacCarter.
yes there is such a thing and i would like to inform you, jealousy can run deep at Great distances and I need not remind you of the close range radada lala 16:51
I am all the way up here in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada, and we too are part of the Appalachias and have similar heritage here. We were known for coal and steel making back in the day. We are music lovers and makers and we have strong proud roots. 🤗
Thanks for sharing this.💞
NB here
*new Scotland
This documentary mentions King James "of England" but neglects to mention that King James was a Scottish king who had inherited the English throne. He was King James the 6th of Scotland and became also King James the 1st of England at the same time. He was also the same King James who commissioned the translation of the bible into English (consequently called The King James edition). I'm half Irish and half Scottish Canadian but I grew up in England so I take an interest in getting the historical facts straightened out. Anyway, there's a lot of good music history in this video.
speculativism s. I believe King James 2nd
son of Mary Queen of Scots took the throne but was always at the the English court
It should have went to her first son with the Daphne of France , they were married very young, she left France to sit on the Scottish Throne !
Her English cousin executed her,
When she died and those after her the throne was given to Hanover lineage !
We have to remember History was made by the Victors ! And it differs to who you talk to or what your taught or read !!
Right now you have the Royalists !! And those who scorn them !!
Margaret deVries:--- The Stuart King James VI of Scotland (1st of England) was the son of "Mary Queen of Scots". His granddaughter was "Sophia of Hanover" ( the mother of King George 1st of Great Britain) The Protestant Sophia should have inherited the throne from her childless first cousin (once removed) the Protestant Stuart "Queen Anne", however Sophia died two months before Anne so the throne passed to Sophia's son King George 1st. The first Scots/German King of Great Britain. ( The start of the Hanoverian dynasty).
My family were given 10K acres in Co. Tyrone, as 'Undertakers', to bring clansfolk over to Ulster; within ten years, my ancestor had sold his land to his brother-in-law. Needless to say, this patent came from King James (our cousin).
King James 6 was King of Scotland he was raised by John Knox his protector. The Bible he was raised on what is known as the Geneva Bible. It was Written in English. When King James 6 make him King of England he was 39 years old he felt that the Geneva Bible and the Presbyterian religion was contrary to the monarchy. So he got a bunch of Scholars together and put out his own Bible. the Presbyterians believe government start at the bottom and work to the top. The people were equal to the king because under God all people are equal. You will not find the verse saying to a real governments cuz they were put here by God. Presbyterians did not believe in divine right. The King James version came out 46 years after the Geneva Bible. It was Geneva Bible also known as a presbyterian Bible that came across the pilgrims on the Mayflower. It was also the Bible present during the Declaration of Independence it was also the Bible that George Washington's war on when he became the first president. Eventually the United States because most religions other than the Presbyterian use the King James version. I forgot the Catholics kept the old Catholic Bible. And like I said the Geneva Bible was in English. The English used what was called the Bishops Bible. After King James wrote his Bible the England's start using the King James instead of the bishop Bible
"Inherited the English throne" ---- aka King of England hnmph
Standing on a beach in Skelligs, Ireland a few years ago I was suddenly struck with a vision of how those mountains connected with our beautiful Appalachian mountains here. During Pangea, they were all part of the same mountain range. I felt completely at home in Ireland, and in Scotland when I visited a few years later, and realized it’s because we are one and the same here and there. I am a descendent of Irish immigrants in the 1700’s and 1800’s and consider myself fully American - but feel a deep connection with the country my ancestors came from originally as well. I spent much of my adult life living near the Southern Appalachians, later in the Blue Ridge, and for the past several years in the Northern Appalachian mountains, and realize that no matter where I go, the Appalachians are my home. These mountains are ancient, strong, and wise, like old people who have seen much, experienced much, and lived fully.
Very moving. My ancestors voyaged from Ulster to Virginia, then later to Texas. We must preserve our traditions and oppose all those who want to rewrite or destroy our history. We have much to be proud of on both sides of the Atlantic.
Beautiful
Ireland has nothing to do with the Appalachian mountain. stop inventing the connection. these are the lands and mountains of the natives not the invaders
@@jimgordon6629 but u destroyed the natives history, how rich
@@boohoo54 You are incorrect, and presumably ignorant of plate tectonics, and earth science in general so I will attempt to briefly enlighten you. Note that you could easily do this research yourself if you cared to, simply by googling "how are the Appalachian Mountains connected to Ireland" or "geological history of the earth" or something similar.
FACT: The continents and land masses we recognize have not always been as they are now.
FACT: All land on this planet sits on top of rigid lithospheric plates, which are constantly moving over the surface of the earth's magma. They have been doing this since earth began, billions of years ago.
FACT: Some types of mountains are formed by a process called "folding" - when one plate crashes into the other - which is how the Appalachian Mountains were formed about 375 million years ago (long before there was anything even resembling humans on the earth).
FACT: At that time in earth's history, there was no "North American continent" or "European continent" - and if you look at the outlines of the countries on a map (not just N. America & Europe - ALL of them) you will notice that where one curves out, another curves in - as if they once fit together like pieces of a puzzle. Why? Because they did. Once upon a time it was all one super-continent called "Pangea."
FACT: What is now called the Appalachian Mountains was part of a land mass that included both what we now call North America and what we now call Europe.
FACT: Continents continue to drift and the Americas and Europe have been moving away from each other for millions of years; eventually - in a few million years - they will collide with each other again on the opposite side of the world.
FACT: Further research - should you care to do it - would reveal to you that: "The International Appalachian Trail (IAT) runs from Kerry in the extreme southwest of Ireland, through Ireland, Scotland and Norway to Nord Cap, the extreme north point of Norway." Yes. The Appalachian Mountains of N. America are the same mountains as the Appalachian Mountains in Europe.
THEREFORE: Your statement that there is no relationship between the two parts of the Appalachian Mountain Range is incorrect. Your belief that the lands and mountains "belong" to anyone has absolutely zero relevance to this argument because humans did not exist at the time.
Additional Commentary:
With regard to the comment about "invaders," N. America is not the only land that was "invaded" by people from other places. Nor were the people who lived here before Europeans arrived romantic innocents who never harmed a fly. The "first people/indigenous people" who lived here then were actually pretty good at killing each other off when they felt like it - long before Europeans ever showed up, and while they did not have the "benefit" of "western" weapons and diseases, they didn't exactly leave in peaceful harmony or the Garden of Eden.
The people who originally settled in the "Celtic Lands" were the original "indigenous" people of that region, and that their ands were invaded; their culture, way of life, spiritual practices and way of life were DELIBERATELY DESTROYED by "invaders," in the 5th century CE. For centuries afterward, their languages, clothing and culture was banned by the English. As recently as last century (and in the memory of some people who are alive right now) it was also forbidden for kids in some Irish, Scots, and Welsh schools to speak their native language. This is pretty much the same thing that happened in to the "First Peoples" of N. America, Australia, Pacific Islands, etc. - just much less recently - and unfortunately, it's still happening now in some parts of the world.
Humans can be a nasty, aggressive species and we've been killing and conquering each other for thousands of years. We have been destroying animal, plant, bird, and other species because they tasted good or were useful, or pretty, or perhaps just inconvenient, and even now - when we know better - we continue to do that, and to trash Earth, our home. That doesn't excuse what European settlers did to the people who settled here before them - but getting stuck in this "blame game" and wasting time making accusations, attacking others, and insisting that the land, the earth, etc. "belongs" to anyone is not helpful. Let's try to broaden our perspective, by realizing that the Earth is our home (the only one we have), and it's is a huge, diverse, and incredibly complicated ecosystem filled with a myriad of creatures including humans. As humans - regardless of "race" or "culture" or any other factor, it is our responsibility to care for, protect, respect, and appreciate it and to preserve as much as we can. We need to realize that what is done to one part of it - by whoever does it - harms other parts of it, and in the long-view, "ownership" is irrelevant. We are all one species, connected by a common goal. Putting aside our differences and focusing on the bigger picture is the only way we - and all that we know - will survive.
As a WV who loves history and genealogy I have always felt like the first places I want to visit is Scotland and Ireland. My Scot Irish descendants are the McCunes from Argyl who moved to Ulster from Scotland after the Bishop and Civil Wars in Britain. Then they moved to America in the 1760's, fought in our Revolution and then settled on the farm I grew up on, which that land was how they were paid for their revolutionary service. Ironically they married English Drakes and German Siders'. Then my mom married my dad, a Coffey whos family were forced here from confiscated Irish lands taken after the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
It is unhelpful to blame each other, if we truly are sincere, for our forberrors transgressions as if we committed the atrocities ourselves. I used to think I should hate the English but the English were mostly oppressed and subjugated by Franco-Normans. The Anglo-Saxons before the Normans oppressed the native celtic Britons before that. So on and so on and so on the cycle of hate and oppression goes until we rise above it and forgive. History is brutal with very few truly innocent
and I didnt even mention the displacement of our native american brethren. My grandfather (Siders) swore his great grandmother was Cherokee. I don't know about that one. But seriously if I hated people for ethnic reasons I would never stop hating myself. Anyway, I am proud to be a mutt.
Lucas Coffey ...Irish, Scottish, Norman’s, Welsh, Anglo-Saxon have fought for centuries, that is what siblings do, and that is exactly what the Monarchs of those nations were over time, brothers fighting brothers, and sisters fighting sisters...
@@pennydavis2637You forgot the English.
My maiden name is Coffee. Wonder if we're related.
My mother’s paternal line are Coffey’s from Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains.
I am a Real McCoy and this is the history of my ancestors! There is no one of my relatives left to hear the old stories. Thank you for this!! ❤️
Judy McCoy I was married with Sheryl Jane my mother in law was direct decendent from Sam McCoy
Her Uncle Hubert visit us in California in early. 80s
Gave us planty of picture of Sam McCoy . Iam blessed that I crossed paths to the historical people from Kentucky.
Sincerely thank you for reading my text.
As a True home born and bred Scot, I have never been to the USA, but if I ever manage a visit then WV has to be my destination... I have watched loads of vids on you tube and have fell in love with the place,
God Bless all.
HM
Fyodor48... I was born in WV, but only lived there for a few months and have spent the last 43 years in Michigan, but I will always call WV home.
Michael Nichols Given the beauty of the place I can completely understand that, One day I shall visit, one day. If for nothing else than to meet up with a baptist pastor friend of mine, I would love to visit in the Fall to see the colour of the foilage
Medina Jarman , you are kindness personified, thank you.
as a born a raised West Virginian you are welcome anytime.
Drove out to Wayne county WV on a whim to see where my grandmother and all of her family grew up, I didn't want to leave! I wish I could have went with her to at least one family reunion so I could have gotten to know the family that I still have there. So beautiful there,I hope to own some land out there one day.
Im Scottish with a lot of Irish blood in me - this video makes me feel more akin with Americans - who knows going way way back how many of my ancestors are now Americans
Unless you know of anyone specific in your family's recent history then you definitely share a common ancestor with an Appalachian before you would a continental European.
william f im Scottish Irish and long to go to Scotland to possibly live one day
At least half the population here have Irish blood. I'd bet that. We have always been sympathetic to the irish struggle against the english.
Aye!
@Talorc MacAllan so true. The american imperialism is english imperialism 2.0.
All my 'people' are from Kentucky & Virginia. I can trace one line of my family to a Scottish feller born in 1601 and my great-great-grandfather rode in a Kentucky Confederate cavalry volunteer unit. I've been exposed to this culture and music my entire life, it stays in your blood no matter where you end up going and getting back down in those deep mountain hollers is truly 'going down home'. Places and people like these are a big part of who Americans are today.
Are you related to any Canada smith or Roman's?
I had an uncle Bear Gilman from Pike Kentucky why I asked.
AMEN!!!
Yes it’s amazing to see our ancestry, my uncle has traced our first Irish ancestor arriving in America and marrying a Cherokee woman, we even know their names! He also traced us to the house of Fraser in the lowlands of Scotland, a friend of mine is from the cousins house of Fraser in the Highlands.
Yes to all of this. Same here.
I have a daughter in Scotland and I got a beautiful postcard from there. It looks just like our mountains here in Southwest Virginia.
Middle Tennessee looks like parts of Scotland as well. Toured northeast coast of Scotland in 2016......never met a single person who wasn't nice to me
@@RobertBain-pd1oqare you aware that when earths Pangea split the Appalachian mountains are the same mountain range that split with Scotland? It’s the same range
This was very interesting to me as I am Scots-Irish originating from Ulster! My sister loves blue grass and plays it and I have buck danced many years! This explains why we enjoy it so much!!! It is in our DNA!!!
My mom taught me buck dancing as a little boy. It was part of her heritage from both sides of her family. Her brothers and sisters used to play the music at the dances and mama played the spoons which goes way back in the Irish Scotts heritage.
I love the music especially the Celtic music. Tom Janis has several music videos playing the Celtic and Galic music
I was born and raised in the Cumberland Mountains of Virginia. My father, James T. Yeary had an English sur name, but my mother's name was Cheek. Her mother, my Grandmotherhad an Irish name , Cottrell. I spent my youth hunting and trapping fur for money for clothes and moonshine which I dearly loved. I left the mountains when I was 19 years old. But they never left me. Haven' t yet. I always went back " home " several times a year from where I worked in Detroit at Chrysler Corp. This is the longest I have been away, 20 years Now I have been in Oklahoma. All my family died off in Virginia. I still think of the Cumberland Mountains when I say the word " home ". Charles Yeary
I have said it all.
+Charles Yeary Yep while I have not had the privilege of living off the land my whole life I did experience it to some extent as a child my mothers second husband had a very old fashioned family and we had livestock and would go through the mountains searching for ginseng. They had electricity but they had no running water so they used branch that was nearby for water supply. I also learned all sorts of plants that are edible in the woods but still to this day I do not know what they are called ha ha. I spent most my time in the Blue Ridge area foothills around Lambsburg va. It's a majestic place.
My Mother side was raised in that area last name Ayres
+Bruce Fultz from Ayr in Ayrshire, Scotland, where MANY Scottish Protestant Planters in Ulster (Scotch-Irish in American terms) came from.
+Charles Yeary powerful story man. You should write a book.
You don't know how happy I was that the narrator pronounced it App-uh-latch-a in this
50% of Americans mispronounce it. Staggering ignorance!
Ain’t it the truth - I’ve never pronounced it any other way and anyone from here don’t either
Me too😂
I've heard and seen so many variations of the word appalachian. I'm a native east kentuckian. We pronounce the word apple-ay-shun in my area.
Kaden I also felt joy with the correct pronunciation! I actually will not continue to watch a video if the narrator does not correctly pronounce Appalachia
This video is now eight years old. Where’s it been hiding ? It’s one of the finest documentary I’ve seen on Utube. Thank you, to the producers . I thoroughly enjoyed it. Honey Feeney , October 24, 2022, Harrisburg, PA
Proud to be Scots-Irish. Thirteen forebears are listed on my SAR application as documented contributors to the Revolutionary War. Nine of the men on that slate were members of the Virginia Militia and Troops of Line. The latter participated in the Siege of Yorktown. I keep the Ulster Scot story alive as best I can.
Another Scottish/Scots Irish person here. But my Scottish Highland ancestors, after losing in the Jacobite Wars against England, hired themselves out as mercenaries to King George and then stayed in the States. I guess the DAR wouldn't want me, though.
My ancestor was given orders by King George to survey land in the Bluefield region of Virginia, upon doing so staked claim to the land and became a scout/spy for the colonial army
I'm there with you, too. My ancestry parallels yours. We share a marvelous heritage!
You are so blessed to know such rich information about your people.
I have Scottish and Irish ancestry on both sides and the reason they were foot loose and fancy free is because life had ALWAYS been short and hard with no real pace of their own, always under someone else's foot, so why not let loose while one can?
Guess that all follows the bloodlines... Love for music, storytelling, oversion to tyranny, and no place of peace to rest... My life's beginning to make sense now.. 😆
@@barbararaegurley4910 same
Scotch Irish here. My family lived in the N.C. end of the Appalachian Mountains. Some now at the foothills and Piedmont region. I asked my grandfather once why would our ancestors have chosen such rough land to come here and live on? He said when the Scotch Irish got here they were poor but together they had a little money they could have purchased better land together to farm but people already here didn't want to sell to them. They were poorly thought of. Even called drunken monkeys. The land in the Appalachian was rough, raw, rocky and hills that most thought not fit to have. That's what they were able to buy. Most could not farm it but the Scotch Irish did. They worked hard and moved stone and rocks and even used it in what they built and made hedges, houses, walls and fences with the stones. They found a way to farm it enough to scratch out a living. My grandfather, grandmother and great grandmother, clear down to my mama sang some of the old songs. I never realized anybody took an interest in any of that? I still go to the old bluegrass festivals. Closest you can get to mountain music any more.
always under someone else's foot? cause they didnt put their feet on the natives necks, right?
@@boohoo54 One in every crowd. Take your disrespectful boo hooing and plight your cause somewhere else.
It is somehow comforting to know my aversion to authority is breed in me. Got to ponder on that a while. (and yes, I moved out West but I still am a Southern Man.)
@Jason Smith ,
You are correct. 'Genetic Memory' can possibly be the cause of several types of personality traits. They are learning more and more about what is generally called genetic memory traits now with each year that passes. It is unique that so many Irish, Scots-Irish, and Scotsmen seem to have the same basic likes and dislikes. As in the dislike of being 'Ordered' to do something. Now, a person can Ask us nicely to do something and we no problems .. (most of the time.)
🎻🎙🎶🙂.
(I'm of Irish/Cherokee, (father) and of Apache/German/Irish/Cherokee (mother) ancestors.)
The federal government will fail miserably when they try going up into them Appalachian and Allegheny mountains. There will be way more blood shed now then was shed back during the American revolutionary and civil wars.
@Jason Smith my Denton's and Smith's mixed in the mid 1600's when LT John Rock Smiths daughter Mary Rock Smith married my 8 th/ great grandfather/Samuel Denton in 1660's in Hempstead long Island,ny.
Aversion to authority....
Could my Scots-Irish ancestors have passed this on to me, a fire-in-her-soul redhead and all 8 of my redheaded, extremely bullheaded children?
If so, I thank them!
I wouldn't change a thing.
That aversion to authority has served me well.
You can take the Boy Out of the Country...BUT you CANT' take the Country 'Out the Boy. 🌏 🌲 🐺 OR the Girl. i hearU ! Took a 3 mt. Rd.trip thru Calif. Was a memory of a lifetime! Point being. Can truly understand, why you headed West. COULD of easily Hung my Hat around Julian for longer. MAYBE you heard of this town?🌵Many others, as well. Future List*-a Spend couple mnts.Thru Arizona /😘 Havasupai Nation. See Wounded Knee 😘 l'd lay on the blood stained ground * Smudge w white Sage, Red Cedar @ my 3 feather fan. Scatter gift offerng of Tobacco. Red Cedar for gift offering. In the dead silence, i hear the cries of my peoples. " Wakan-Tanan Kici Un.: (May the Great Spirit Bless You.) Pila'maya. (Thank you.) Lakota language. ⭐ 🌖 🐺
Proud to be an American of irish, Scottish, Welsh decent. I love writing country/bluegrass songs because I feel it's in my blood. When I go back to the homeland one day I might shed tears in my eyes. I hope the locals there will say welcome home. My wish.
You'll definitely be given a warm welcome in Wales, and I'm sure in Ireland and Scotland too. We love our history and are always interested in the history of those that escaped the harsh life here, and set off for the New World to start a new life.
@@Walesktf thank you! I'd love to visit there in the future.
You are an American Mut just like me. Hi my name is Shane from Central PA, nice to meet you.
Music is my daily life. Dr Ralph Stanley was my Step-Uncle as was Carter. I LOVE the Old Stories put to Music.
@@shanersmith2608I definitely would be offended if someone called me a mutt. But I feel you said that jokingly so it’s all good, Smith. I know about the Irish Smiths.
I get my Strength from my Deep Roots & we taught my 3 Cubs. We didn’t chase leaves we learned from the elders around. Now I teach. God bless you and Til Valhalla. 😊👋🏼
Some footage of the late country music veteran Johnny Cash,probably near the end of his life.God bless his sweet memory,friends.
Derlin Claire he looked a bit haunted, didn’t he. I wonder if this was about the time he was covering Trent Reznor.
Derlin Claire I was thinking of Johnny and Loretta when I opened this video. Such a great story teller in music. Miss them. I’m Scottish too, and very happy the scotts are so independent ❤️
@@timmyteaching He had lost his love.
@@timmyteaching likely he was blind or partially blind by then.
JOHNNY CASH FAMILY ARE FROM KINGDOM OF FIFE IN SCOTLAND
That were one of the most interesting halfs of a hour I have spent in a long time. Thank you to all who have made this film.
My family mixed with the Cherokee I'm Scot Irish and Cherokee
Lisa Lentile my dad too.
Ours mixed with Choctaw Indian
My Denton's mixed with the native tribes from 1600's into 1800's. After settling in northeast Tennessee by the 1770's they mixed with the yates,huskins,shaws,stevens tapps/tappticos from western north carolina. The huskins had intermarried with plotts and little John's from murphy,nc up in cherokee by the late 1700's.
They also mixed with the jones and riddles from hendersonville,nc by the late 1800's.
Probably black too
me too.
6th generation Appalachian man myself. My 6th great grandpa "William Monroe McCall" came here from Northern Ireland in 1733. Born and raised in northern Transylvania county. The McCall/Jahu Scot/Irish blood line lives on through my two little boys. God bless America, for my ancestors where some of the ones who fought and died for our nation's future. 🇺🇸
There was no Northern Ireland in 1733. It wasn't formed until 1921. My family's own ties to the time and place are the reason my family is in the US today. My great grandfather was involved in the Easter Uprising in 1916, when everything fell apart over there, he and a few others fled to the US to avoid capture by the authorities, my grandfather was only ten years old at the time.
My father's side goes back to the late 1600s. Families like ours are both deeply rooted here, but the blood of Scotland and Ireland runs in our veins.
I know some McCall's in Henderson County. Nice people.
Cheers! My family is from Waynesville, almost 300 years ago. Still have family in Hendersonville. We’re Davis’s and McGaha’s, Welsh/Scots Irish.
whats up cousin
My granny was from wva. She spoke a dialect of English which had a lot of Scottish sounds, like “ wilt ye give me a wee sup o yer water” or Go to yon lad and fetch him home, look at yon fiest (look at that little dog)
look at that wee dug linda in scotland
im scottish and would love to visit the appalachians one day
my ancestors settled in western Pennsylvania before the revolution.
Originally from Mull, then they went to co. Cavan,Ire.
3 of my ancestors fought the btits here in ohio. 8th generation ohioan.
the appalachains are the oldest mountain range in the world. once the size of the alps.
It's an amazing place David. I spent my 1st 25yrs in Scotland before moving 2 Canada. My wife and I have visited West Virginia. The people and scenery are just amazing. So friendly and welcoming.
I'm predominantly Ulster Scot (County Antrim) in heritage, I'm absolutely dying to see Northern Ireland and Scotland. My wife's family is from Down and Antrim as well..
You would be very welcome in Appalachia. Come on over!
I live in the Blue Ridge Mountain range of the Appalachia in Northeast TN and even tho I havent really been anywhere else on my life I have to say, its an amazing place.
10th generation Appalachian and a descendant of the Scots-Irish. ♥️
Black hart that 4 the cowards in the i r a. I hope ur from good Ulster Scots stock and support the CSA
And English there SMITH. Good on yah anyway
scots irish, maybe, but Appalachian no. these mountains are native american. oh the arrogance
@Jou Moer nope, never said there were exceptional in any way. but their history is the true history of this continent. irish are the appalachian people? do u even see how stupid that sounds? spaniards are the people of mexico? chinese are the people of Tibet?
@@Birdman2003 Smith is also Scottish, it is also Welsh and is in the top 5 most common Surnames in the Irish Republic.
I’m neither Scottish nor Irish but have some Italian in me and found this absolutely fascinating.
My mama's family were Scottish , and daddy's were German. This is so true, lol. The German side was much more serious and the Scottish were a bit more wild, lol. I was raised in North Georgia and Tennessee. Thank you for this program. It took me back.........
Was your German side protestant as well?
Crazy this is my family to a tee except my dads were polish
Skull as thick as a brick? Seems to be a common trait among us Irish/Scottish/German "mutts".
"Scots" .. are the people. "Scotch" is what comes in a bottle.
And in Scotland, I am told, Scotch is called whisky.
"Scotch" as to differentiate from other types.
Agreed, was taught from me youth, I am Irish/Scot, Scot/Irish, people got a good punch in the nose years ago for calling one Scotch.
The old people in my family always said we were Scotch-Irish but what the hell did they know.
DrHillbillyShow thank you for saying that! I am with a Scot and know many, all whom are very offended by being called scotch! After all, Scotch is a drink and the Scots are the people!
I am proud to be an Appalachian American.
cool
Jim Yes!
there is no reason not to be proud.
You should be. YOu are True American.
Are you inbred? Do you get into life and death struggles over perceived slights? Are you dumb as fuck?
Very beautiful and respectful! Thank you so much for sharing and God bless everyone
My grandpa was born in Appalachia, and his family lived there hundreds of years. This helped me feel a lot of positive things about that, so thank you.
Im proud to be from Northeast TN right at the base of the Blue Ridge. Irish on my great grandfathers side and Scottish on my great grandmothers side. Maybe its just me but there is a magnetic pull to these mountains that keeps me here. I went to the beach back in 2010 and was homesick so bad on day number 4 i actually got physically ill. Once we got back to the mountains tho, immediate relief. I havent left them since and never want to again.
I’m from Bay County and I can’t leave her, my people are buried here. When I go in-land I feel a magnetic pull to go home to Bay County Florida.
🌴🦦🔥🐍
My family had long pause in Grundy County, TN. I've never been there, but it does have a strange pull on me.
It's very similar in landscape to Ireland ..
@@silvergirl2847Just minus the heat.
East Tennessee myself. Never seen a beach. Never wanted to either. You got sand. You got ocean. Get tired of that you got ocean & sand. I'm born in these mountains. Raised. Live here. Will die here. No better place on earth. Starting to build up..WAY TO MUCH..from what I refer to as Yankee Foreigners. Another 20 years and it won't be the same. Sad
Destroy the roads and the bridges and the Appalachias would be damn hard to invade and pacify.
If not for the Cumberland Gap, who knows how long westward expansion would have taken. They were, and still are, very rough country. It took very rough men to explore them and open the country for the rest of us.
Not to mention Robert how happy it would make the residents.
...trouble is why would anyone want to?
@@mrs.schmenkman Chinese or Russian invasion
CertifiedRealism I was making a joke, you silly git
The story of my people. My ancestors eventually made their way to Indian Territory where I was born and raised, but the Appalachias have always called me home. I've hiked 11 of the 14 states on the Appalachian Trail so far and hope to finish it soon. Right now my kids are looking for land along the trail, my son in the South and my daughter in the North. I plan on hiking from one to the other for the rest of my life.
That's beautiful! Best of luck!
What a beautiful legacy of your life! Blessings to you, my Appalachian Kin. Blessings to you!
Hello I’m proud to be Scotch-Irish my last name is Rose and I was raised in southwestern Virginia my father and brother were both coal miners my ancestors originally settled in North Carolina near Asheville then migrated north to Virginia. We’re good hard working people, I retired from 30 yrs over the road trucking with a stint in the Marine Corps, I still work part time at Kroger’s here in Tennessee where I currently reside. So proud of my heritage. Jim Rose
Scots-Irish scotch is a beverage
Thank you for sharing that! This was a great documentary!
yes a scots surname linda in scotland
"Scotch-Irish" is correct.
@@dixiecyrus8136 In 1695, Sir Thomas Laurence, Secretary of Maryland, referred to “the two counties of Dorchester and Somerset, where the Scotch-Irish are numerous.” (329-330). In 1723, two different Anglican ministers in Delaware stated that the settlers from northern Ireland referred to themselves as “Scotch-Irish,” and in 1730 James Logan, secretary to the Penn family, stated that the term was also used by settlers in Pennsylvania (330). In 1737, the editor of the Virginia Gazette referred to several ships “from the North of Ireland, and from Holland [that] have brought a great Number of Irish, Scotch-Irish, and Palatines, Passengers” (Montgomery 3). Here we clearly see the native Irish being differentiated from the Scotch-Irish. The Pennsylvania Gazette in 1756 mentioned “some Scotch-Irish kill’d” by Indians on the Pennsylvania frontier (Montgomery 3). Further south, Governor Arthur Dobbs of North Carolina, an immigrant from Ulster himself, wrote of seventy-five families “from Pennsylvania of what we call Scotch-Irish Presbyterians” who settled in his colony in 1755 (Leyburn 215). In the late 1760’s, the Anglican minister Charles Woodmason preached among “Scotch Irish Presbyterians from the North of Ireland” who were living in the South Carolina backcountry (Hooker 14). And in 1772, a newspaper advertisement in the Virginia Gazette reported a runaway African slave named Jack who “speaks in the Scotch-Irish dialect” (Bridenbaugh 169).
This is the best Appalachian area and history documentary I've seen. great job, thank you! I wish they would teach this in schools.
What a treat to see Johnny Cash ...
My ancestors have lived in these mountains since they came over. I just discovered recently they were mostly Scottish and Irish. I even found a few paintings of them. To have the names and places, it just blows me away.
This was not what I was expecting. It was beautiful.
I'm glad he pronounced Appalachia correctly.
People never talk about the people who live up there now
They never ask for any thing They do it all them selfs
Not at all true. They're too poor to pay sufficient taxes to cover their roads, schools or hospitals. Although, like you, they don't seem to care much about schools.
Themselves
@@TheAureliac aureliac--- stuff it you self important prig!
@@TheAureliac u havent been to very many parts of the Appalachia.
@@mereduthgrubb3648 It's Appalachia or the Appalachians (or Appalachian mountains). I've lived in Appalachia. I've visited, camped and hiked in many other parts and know natives of still more areas and states considered part of Appalachia . Virtually all of Appalachia pays less in taxes than they receive in government services.
Something I don't see mentioned in this video is that after emigrating to the US, Scots-Irish pushed a little bit west, and found good farmland already taken by Germans, English, Dutch, and other early settlers. Thus searching for land, they migrated down through the Appalachian range, eventually settling in hills and mountains below the frost belt. This land wasn't as good for a farming lifestyle, but at least the weather wasn't so inhospitable. Generations passed, and an identifiable culture developed.
Yes. Gradually, the Scots-Irish mainly took over leaving almost no reminders of their predecessors.
I have lived in other areas of the South, mostly Texas and Florid but i always come back to Appalachia. I am back home in my glorious mountains to stay now and will die here. To me there is no other place on earth I would rather be. My family is also Scot/irish descendants.
My great-grandfather went West, to Texas, trained Mexican on our side to use Gatling guns,then to California, brought grandfather back here, SEOhio.He forgot to mention SEO.Mother side changed their name before my grandfather was born from McFagan to Figgins somewhere,grandpa was born in 1899.
There is no place like home.
I didn't grow up in Appalachia, but I lived within a couple hours drive of those mountains. I've always been drawn to them and felt most at peace whenever I visited. Now, I'm part of them, living in Western NC, Asheville, near the Smokies. Gorgeous country. I feel I'm home.
Good on You!!!
Have you heard of Young's cove west of Asheville in Candler, that's where my family lived from the early 18th century.
Same here Teresa I love the mountains &asheville. Most beautiful. It’s true you feel at home in Ireland and Scotland- love them too.selene
We're in Asheville, too....this part of the country is truly magical!
@@randyowens3419 Hello Randy, small world isn't it.
The intro song made me emotional. Proud to be a Scots-Irish Tennessee Appalachian
Me too
yes m'am
I beg to differ, but I grew up in the foothills of Appalachia on Sand Mountain, North Alabama. We do live on the Cumberland Plateau. I'm a Scotch-Irish hillbilly & proud of it. It infuriates me when Alabama is overlooked. You want to see a beautiful picture of the Southern Appalachians? Come to Sand Mountain.
Hello from Hollytree, between Scottsboro and Gurley 😊
Yeah, some of us, of course, still speak the native-born tongues & dialects ( raised with our Heinz 57 bloodlines array of cultures from our ancestral hearths everywhere!
When I was a kid growing up in Charlotte NC in the 60s we'd go see the chilly fall colors in the mountains many years. My dad was Scotch Irish mom was Chinese.
Thats a very cool mixture.
This is my family history. I’ve been able to trace the first of my family back to Scotland well before the American Revolution and through DNA have traced my lineage to the great southern migration of the Americas. It’s a hard, wonderful history that I’m incredibly proud of.
My mother's ancestors were "Shanty Irish". And dad's ancestors were English and Scots. I still have distant cousins living in West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, and Kentucky.
“One drop will make a rabbit whoop a bull dog” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
... love that lyric!
Funny!
Thanks for this series. I’m full of pride for my Scots-Irish (the term doesn’t bother me or my County Cork portion). Proud PA branch!
As a long-time folk singer and musician, I am always struck by just how MANY versions there are of the old “Barbara Allen” song - both words and tunes.
O! How I love these old mountains. Smoky shouldered old men raising up strong heads. Ridges of green, valleys of blue ribbon rivers- cleanest, sweetest waters and springs. Plenty of room and not many people.
Shannandoah in Virgina makes my heart ache. I know these hills will be on the new earth. God will make them new for all us who would be broken hearted without these mountains that he used to shape us and strengthen us.
We've corn and oil.
Praise God.
I’m from southern West Virginia and I loved this. I’ve taken a big interest in my roots. The surname I carry is from Wales, but my family is from all over the isles. Scottish, English, Welsh, Irish and Manx. It definitely made for an interesting way of life, way of speaking, and accent.
Scottish Surname, Jamaican branch present! Scottish, English, Scandinavian (probably via the Scottish/Northern English branch) Welsh, African of all sorts, and a good sprinkling of Jewish somehow... My DNA list is HUGE 🤣
King "James of England" was from the royal house of Stewart - a Scots royal dynasty .
+Angus MacLellan And the Stewarts were part French..
Typical American documentary they don't know or understand shit about Ireland or Britain's history
King James VI Charles Stuart of Scotland was also King James I of England. Born a Catholic, he was taken from his mother and reared as a Protestant, taking the side of the Protestants against the Catholics in both countries, essentially eliminating Catholicism from Great Britain.
My Stewart ancestor was allegedly his 3rd cousin.
We all live in a yellow submarine.Yellow submarine.
My great grandfather was a moonshiner and was caught and taken to court when he was 13 running a still for his daddy. My great great grandfather showed up in court with all his brothers and cousins and 2nd cousins and all of them wearing pistols and they let him go without a word being spoken, they just turned him loose. Georgia
That's funny. Love it.
Now that's justice! Pffft Bahahaha Sounds like a good call to me. ;)
Bullshit.
so were mine, was in the moonshine wars and they got off cuz officials was into moonshining too and had bought it, Staunton, blue ridge, Appalachian and Shenandoah, hard-working people
Florence ECA ...Don’t mistake patience for fear...Huge mistake!
My wife is Scotch-Irish from West by God Virginia. God Bless & God Help me.
If you keep saying scotch Irish instead of Scott's Irish..you will need gods help to survive.
Lol
@@jenrutherford6690 I just posted the same thing the other day..
hi my mothers family irish from county tyrone can i just say correct saying is scots irish from linda in scotland
@@jenrutherford6690 Scots-Irish*
Just stumbled across this; so great to see the history of my people! Our heritage and culture is being pushed aside more and more these days, so this is great to show my kids where they came from!
Keep playing the music and you'll never be forgotten.
Nice video! Very interesting...
My mixed race ancestry is Melungeons. We are African American, Mingo Indian and Scottish from Eastern Kentucky. I'm 60% African and 40% European. We were mainly from the Madison Co. area which is a county listed within the foot hills of the Appalachian Mountain region. Our family surname is STONE (who we know now was Thomas Stone of Hamilton Parish, Virginia who is grandson of Gov. William Stone of Charles County, Mayland that fathered children with us in the 1700s) we later discovered we are R-M269 "Irvine" which came to Madison Co, KY in early the 1700s from Pennsylvania... who eventually married into the Stone family. David Irvine fathered a child with my mixed race Stone 6th grandmother. She gave birth in 1825 to a son and gave him her surname Stone not Irvine. The Irvine family are originally from Northern Scotland that came to America in 1620s.
@@curtis7599 my Native American is right at 1% which translates in science being a 100% native American in my bloodline about 400 years ago. Which if you subtract 400 years from 2021 that's abt 1627... the year 1627 +/- was the timeframe of the Powhatan-Anglo War fought against them in the Jamestown, Virginia area.
When I heard Johnny Cash's voice and wasn't expecting it: 😊
When I heard Loretta’s voice and wasn’t expecting it!
Couldn’t have been long before Johnny’s death. R.I.P.
Beautiful culture. I'm a city-billy from Detroit. Obsessed with Irish history and ancestry. No one tells stories and sees the world like the celtic people.
These are not Celtics, they are Scots-Irish not Irish
Hey ard uuubrekated yo Denton's from Hempstead,long island,ny or from Shenandoah valley,va?
My 7 th/gg/ was Jane Seamon who married Jonas Denton's in Hempstead long Island inthe early 1700's.
@@davidweiss9891 the scots and Irish are Celtic same blood
@@davidweiss9891 yes they are!!! At one time the whole of the British isles were Celtic!
@Zaidia Naif French also have Celtic blood, and Southern Germans too.
My dads family were Scottish and Welch. My mother was Romania and we were raised in S.W. Virginia. I am very proud to be from Coal miners and farming people.
I am here in the eastern panhandle of beautiful West Virginia right now writing this , looking up at the blue ridge mountains and Shenandoah river. Scott's Irish, Cherokee nation vy the grace of God. Dont tell me about my ppl we are so tough we will fight until our last breathe. No thank you too the evil politicians of D.C. !!
AMEN!!!!
We supported what our founding fathers built then, and we should support them now! Freedom and respect for all!
i’m in Shepherdstown. Wonder why they skipped WV in the intro.
Democracy is a truly great light in this world. We lived with four years of betrayal and movement toward fascism. Our 2020 election removed a tyrant. We Scots-Irish will not fall for tyranny. We will not fall for sedition.
kind of forgot GA in that opening description.
and WV!
This is all about my maternal family history. I am Scots/Irish, and my family settled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia in the mid-1700s...very proud of these roots!
Lexicon 67 Ill bet you ten bucks that you come from ancestors from the Highlander Clearance after Culloden! That is where a great deal of them ended up
Lexicon 67 my parents from blue ridge . Blessings
No such thing as scotch Irish either your Scottish or Irish no in-between
Your not
There wasn’t anyone in Virginia till the 1800s no trace of anyone just lies. Taking people to hell.
Tom Wolfe, who died a few years ago, found a statistic that half of America’s Medal of Honor winners came from within 50 miles of the Appalachians. “Born Fighting,” a book from about ten years back, went into this topic more generally.
Thanks for the referral!
Thank you for sharing that. Appreciate it.
Great Suffering as well as Sheer Grit and Determination is in our blood
It still runs in our dna to this day, we are fighters by our very nature, friendly also, look at the most decorated british soldier of ww2, col blair paddy mayne, an ulster man, the ulster scot played a massive part in securing victories in every british conflict up til now
Mountain people are hardcore.
I am born and raised in Nova Scotia Canada and proud of my Scots-Irish background. I would be very proud to share my ancestry with the Appalachians.
Sadly, most of us refuse to recognize our Scots Irish ancestry. If ask most of us of our ancestry we will just say American even though most of us are pretty homogenous Ulster-men.
George no offence but you are not an ulster man, the scotch irish were only in ulster a couple of hundred years before they left to North America, ulster existed over 1000 years before they arrived in ulster. I can personally trace my descent in these lands to 2000 years ago, it is the catholic Gaelic irish who are considered the "ulster men" hence why the Protestants use the term "Ulster Scots" to describe themselves, they even use a Gaelic Irish symbol, the red hand, this symbol isn't Scottish
J. o'neill Sorry bud but only saying what I felt! Really not interested in a argument! Thank you George Holmes for understanding that!!!
J. o'neill You're not really talking much sense here, J. Of course George feels like an Ulsterman. You have no idea how long his ancestors spent in Ulster. They could have gone to the New World during the Plantations, or before, or well after. His ancestors could have been part of the kingdom of Dalriata, who were originally from Ulster and introduced Gaelic to Scotland (the clue is in the name - Scotti, btw). Maybe some of them came back over to Ulster. It's not that far away from Scotland, and people had been coming and going for millennia before the Plantation.
Genetically, the vast majority of Caucasian people in the British Isles are almost identical anyway.
As for Ulster itself - it existed for MILLIONS of years.. not just one thousand years! Ulster didn't arrive in Ulster, either.
You ancestry tracing is very much in error: 2,000 years ago there were no Catholics in Ulster. St Patrick (and a couple of missionaries before him) brought Christianity to Ireland. But it wasn't Roman Catholicism - it was the 'British Church' (also referred to as the 'Celtic Church'), which merged, later, with the See of Rome.
Your Gaelic ancestry would also probably not have been from Ulster, as the Gaels only barely arrived in Ireland (in the south coast) 2,000 years ago. Ulster held out against the Gaelic invader the longest. A few hundred years went by before Ulster was Gaelicised. Your ancestry would therefore have been native Irish - you know.. the natives in Ireland before the arrival of the Gaels.
No idea why you would want to stress the religion of your ancestors anyway, even though you got it wrong.
As a Protestant (well, formerly but no longer), I don't use the term 'Ulster Scot' to describe myself. I use the term 'Irish', or 'British', or 'Ulsterman', depending on the context.
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I love these hills! Once I learned that the whole ridge was connected to Scotland I was excited yet not surprised!
Yes learning this was "mind blown" for me. I'm going to read up on that....
Wonderful video. All my people came from Appalachia in western Va. I've heard many of those old songs coming up and miss the old folks I once knew.
My ancestors landed in 1627 in what was then the Plymouth colony. They were whalers and ship captains in the decades that followed and their adventures took them down the east coast and around the world. The branch I decend from moved to Virginia, Kentucky, Western Pennsylvania, and West Virginia after the French and Indian War while it was still a frontier. I often look at their courage and resiliance as a inspiration in my life and a high mark to live up to.
I had family come over .. under the surname Garrett. Mine is Campbell though
Maybe I'm wrong, but I always pronounce it "Appa- latch-uns" Not "appa-lay-chuns.
+Meade Skelton , You pronounce it correctly--like one who lives here!
Meade Music An old hillbilly relative told me it’s like an Apple thrown at ya or yan , Not gonna argwit ya , he also said a good barn dance was not good unless someone got cut or shot!
You are wrong. That's not how you pronounce it.
One of the accompanying traits that comes with being a poor, low-IQ, gap-toothed hick is that you tend not to know how words are properly pronounced. It's always lay, not latch.
@ImNotMad ButUR It looks like Sling Blade is back in town.
Not only did they move to the Appalachians, they settled in Pittsburgh and created the most powerful industrial country in the world. The Scotch-Irish were the primary factor in the creation of the mining, steel, and coal industries in Western Pennsylvania that became the engine of America in the 19th and into the 20th Century. In this day and age, this breed of folks from Scotland to Northern Ireland to America never get their credit for their role in the development of the United States. Plus, their music dominates and influences all varieties of American music. What a great breed of folks.
Greetings from a Scots -Irish in western Pa. (Irwin)
AMERICAN??? : FUCK OFF YOUR A CITIZEN OF "NORTH AMERICA". AND THAT MEANS MEXICAN, CANADIAN, FRENCH CANADIAN, AND CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES...of America.
neither do the actual scots who have been in the americas since the 1500s. then the later ulster scots , many of them would still have been full scots having lived in ireland a few years or even months before leaving for the americas.
@@dalepeto9620That's my surname also! I'm from Armagh City, Northern Ireland. We're Ulster Scots over here !
Barbara Allen was my mother's name. That song has deep meaning to me.
Proud Scots-Irish, English and German here. I grew up in south east Ohio, about an hour away from West Virginia. Very proud to have come from such strong people!!
my scots irish ancestors settled in ross county ohio primarily but other areas in ohio too
I'm a Scottish/ Irish decent. I'm from North Alabama. My family has always lived off the land
An interesting thing I read recently is that the Appalachians are the same mountain range as the Scottish Highlands and the Atlas Mountains in North Africa. They drifted apart when the continents drifted apart. I hope its true!
Interesting!
Very true!
I have lived in the Appalachian Mountains in north carolina all my life, 37 years. And i love this land. My ancestors land
My daddy n his people was name of Bryant n his mama was a Snow. My daddy’s people moved to Delaware in early 1900s but my daddy always took us back to N C to stomp old grounds n to see his peoples. I loved it n now my daddy’s gone n pretty well all our people here in Delaware. I always enjoyed my daddy’s little jigs he danced n loved going to N C because I always felt at home there. I sure do miss my daddy n his mama. ❤😊. Love this site n learned so much. ❤
This is why I love these mountains. My family can be traced back to the 1700s in WV. I am Scots-Irish German mix. There is no place like WV, sure a lot of us were or are still poor but we grew up that way it was our life. We are proud people it's in our blood. I have said before and I'll say it again I wake up everyday and that God I live in WV.
What a thrilling documentary.Incredible music.
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....11:14...before you even see her you can tell Loretta Lynn by her voice...real cool to see Rosanne, and her dad too!...Johnny Cash et al. has been and still is revered by college kids throughout the U.S., and the world over!
The music😍😍😍. I just love it, and love making up short ballads on the fly when only a tune is played. It's so fun, my daughter and husband chime in and we have come up with some interesting, and R rated songs when we're really on a roll. No liquor required😂
A great majority of my ancestors were Scots-Irish who came to America in the early 1700s. Quite a few fought for independence in the American Revolution. And have fought in every American war up until the Korean War. My direct ancestors never seemed to stay in one area for more than a generation but always stayed in the south and worked their way west. Eventually ending up in Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana.
Mine ended up in SOUTHERN Illinois and the hill country of Texas.
Same here. ❤
Anyone with surnames of Barnett,Fowler or Cole here? Eventually from Northeast Texas?
I am a combination of Scot-Irish and German. I'll have me another shot, please...
"Swearingen" is also a German name, from "Schweringen."
hwgray are you sure about that
coalminergroupie Me too 😉 Grandma was from Tennessee was part German and my Grandpa is a Mitchell-Irish.. Dad's side Murray's- Scots. I understand why I fight so hard for freedom.. It's in our blood!
scots-irish/ german /Austrian= celtic empire.
Same here
The Appalachian Mountains are pretty much the same age as the mountains found in Norway and the Scottish highlands.
They’re part of the same ancient mountain range that formed hundreds of millions of years ago.
Geologically speaking .. they traded home for home.
God bless you for that insight ! Totally mind blowing that they ended up on the ‘same’ range a continent away. Wow
Northwest Ireland too. The Caledonian Mountain Range.
But the Scots Irish didn't come from the highlands. So much uneducated drivel spouted on sites such as this.
@John Bold I didn't mention ethnicities. I believe the point he was making was that the Appalachians would be just like home. The Scots Irish didn't come from the highlands but came from Northern England and Southern Scotland. It was a completely irrelevant point to make.
My home! I live here I'll Die here! Most beautiful place on Earth.
My father was named Larry Campbell. He passed in 2001. Great to come across an ancestor. ❤
Why don’t they make a movie about these people. They’re amazing