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The Scotch-Irish in the Carolinas (Scots-Irish Chronicles)

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I found this book to be very informative. It provides some information genealogically and describes the historical perspective of the region. I bought both the Carolinas and the Tennessee book and found that there was repetition. Therefore, I recommend buying one book on the Scotch-Irish written by Mr. Kennedy.

This book should have contained very useful and interesting information on the Scots-Irish in the Carolinas, but instead it reads like a biased diatribe of the vaunted religiosity of the Scots Irish and their persecution under other groups. I happened to see the author at the Scottish Highland games in Atlanta a few years ago, and was further unimpressed with his partisanship. However, I may be a little sensitive to the attitudes unnecessarily inserted into his book, since I lived in Belfast as a protestant American during my childhood, and witnessed first-hand the result of such thinking. I just wish this had been a more academic endeavor.

As an experienced genealogist I was perhaps expecting a bit more on the serious side of research from this volume. It was an interesting read but left me wishing that it had been more inclusive and detailed.

I did not find this book to be helpful. I thought it was unorganized and the lack of footnotes or other citations made it useless.

Okay, I'm trying to clear out my reviews and I don't remember ordering this...maybe I gave it as a gift. Sorry I cannot give a review on this item.