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Originating in Ulster, in the north of Ireland, the Scotch-Irish began migrating to America in the early 1700s. They settled first in Pennsylvania, then moved south and west down the foothills of the Appalachians through the great Valley of Virginia to the Carolinas and Georgia. Smaller groups moved west, while some settled in New England, notably in New Hampshire, but most Scotch-Irish settlers were originally drawn to the unspoiled lands of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia. They left abundant records of their comings and goings; of their marriages and deaths; of their participation in court actions, religious events, and all the circumstances of daily life. Their genealogies have been compiled and published in a variety of books, and their history, from the original settlement of the Lowland Scots in Ulster and their life in that province for two or three generations, to their emigration to America, has been chronicled in still more books, the best of which are included in this Family Archive CD.

Featuring family histories, biographical sketches, and genealogical source records such as ships' passenger lists, church records, vital records, militia lists, and court records of various descriptions, the books on this CD form an entire Scotch-Irish library in themselves. They name at least 215,000 individuals and provide information concerning family names, family members, origins and locations in Scotland, Ireland, and America, vital events, and emigration. This unrivalled Scotch-Irish collection, united by a single electronic name index which allows you to search all the volumes quickly and effortlessly, is composed of the following books:

*Scotch Irish Pioneers in Ulster and America, by Charles K. Bolton

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

*The Scotch-Irish in America, by Henry Jones Ford

*Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County, 1745-1800, by Lyman Chalkley. 3 vols.

*Pennsylvania Genealogies, Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German, by William Henry Egle

*The Scotch-Irish of Colonial Pennsylvania, by Wayland F. Dunaway

*Scots-Irish Links, 1575-1725, by David Dobson

*Scotch-Irish Migration to South Carolina, 1772, by Jean Stephenson

*Vital Records of Londonderry, New Hampshire, 1719-1910, by Daniel G Annis

System Requirements: You must have a CD-ROM drive, and in order to read the CD you must use either the Family Archive Viewer (version 4.0 or higher), which is available as a free download at http://www.genealogical.com/content/dlfav6.html, or Family Tree Maker for Windows, version 4.0 or higher (Family Tree Maker software can be ordered from www.FamilyTreeMaker.com).

To access information on our Family Archive CDs using the Family Archive Viewer:

1. Install the Family Archive Viewer CD or download it from http://www.genealogy.com/dlfav6.html.
2. Start the Viewer if it is not already running
3. Insert the CD you wish to view into the CD-ROM drive. If you have 2 or more CD-ROM drives, the CD must be placed in the first one.
4. The CD should open automatically, but users of later versions of the Family Archive Viewer must click the CD/magnifying glass icon in the top toolbar (above the template in some versions) to read the CD.
5. When the screen entitled “About this Family Archive� appears, click OK where prompted.

To access information on our Family Archive CDs using Family Tree Maker:

1. Start your Family Tree Maker and open a Family File. (If the program is already running, skip to Step 2.)
2. Insert the CD in your computer's CD-ROM drive. (If you have 2 or more CD-ROM drives, the CD must be placed in the first one.)
3. From the View menu, select Family Finder, or select the Family Finder icon from the toolbar.
4. For FTM 2005, FTM 2006, or Version 16 or later: From the View menu, select Data CD, then View CD.

To search the CD for names, select the Search Expert button in the top right of your screen, then select "Search this archive for someone NOT from your Family File." You can also search for names by using the Index.

Note: If a window opens that contains a list of files on the CD, simply close it.