Project: Scots-Irish and Ulster Scots
Categories: Ireland Project | Scotland Project | Scots-Irish and Ulster Scots Project
Part of the Scotland Project and the Ireland Project, Irish_Roots_Topics_Team.
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Welcome to the Scots-Irish and Ulster Scots Project
Mission
This project is co-lead by the Scotland Project and the Ireland Project. It is the effort of a group of WikiTree users interested in profiles related to the Scots-Irish and Ulster Scots.
Project members can take primary responsibility for relevant profiles or family groups and work on merging duplicates, cleaning up profiles, adding sources, and removing incorrect information.
How to Join
This Project invites further Project Coordinators from Irish and American perspective. Contact Amy Gilpin or Jen Hutton if you are interested.
To join the project:
- Ask Amy or Jen to add you to the project.
- Add "scots-irish" to your G2G tag feed.
- Check out the To-Do list below to find something to help us work on, and add yourself (or ask one of us to) to that task.
Project Leadership
Project Leader Contact: Jen Hutton
Project coordinator(s): TBD
Project Members
Members, please post your name, your project interests, and what you're working on here:
Goals
- For each profile:
- All duplicates merged into lowest number
- Pertinent categories added
- Biography cleaned up and written out in complete sentences and paragraphs using the WikiTree Style Guide (can work with Profile Improvement Project for help)
- Attached family meet these goals, too
- Attached to the main WikiTree family tree (ask the Project:Connectors for help)
To-do list
If you want to contribute to the project, check the maintenance categories to see if you can improve any of the project profiles by sourcing them, connecting them, adding a biography, or improving a weak biography:
- Project unsourced profiles
- Project unconnected profiles
- Project Profiles Need biography written
- Project Profiles need biography development
Categories
Stickers
1718 Scots-Irish Immigrants to America
This template is for all persons who have been identified as Scots- Irish who were immigrants to America 1718 onwards.
To put this Sticker on a profile, copy and paste the following at the top of the biography section of a profile. For Location include where the person emigrated to.
{{Scots-Irish and Ulster Scots 1718 |location= Scots-Irish Immigrants to America 1718 onwards}}
This displays the following:
Wikitree Resources
Space Rebellion, plantation and war (part of a series of spaces Early modern Irish sources) has a rough summary of the history and links to relevant sources for each period. In particular it has a section on the The Plantation of Ulster and a sub-section on Scots involvement in it.
External Resourses
- Rootsweb Excellent history of the Plantation and undertakers.
- Family Tree Magazine - Scots-Irish genealogy toolkit lots of links to sources
Muster Rolls
Scots-Irish in America
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