If your family is from Appalachia, there’s a good chance you descend from Scots-Irish settlers who arrived in America during the 1700s. Around 250,000 Scots-Irish immigrants moved from Ulster (Ireland) to colonial America and settled heavily in the Appalachian Mountains. Because these mountain communities were isolated, families often married within the same local groups for generations. This led to something genealogists call pedigree collapse, where many people today share the same early ances
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If your family is from Appalachia, there’s a good chance you descend from Scots-Irish settlers who arrived in America during the 1700s. Around 250,000 Scots-Irish immigrants moved from Ulster (Ireland) to colonial America and settled heavily in the Appalachian Mountains. Because these mountain communities were isolated, families often married within the same local groups for generations. This led to something genealogists call pedigree collapse, where many people today share the same early ances
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