My dad's dad's side is very Irish maybe about/technically all Irish of some kind from Northeastern Pennsylvania, Scranto
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️ Christina 1986-05-20 
— 6 years ago(August 26, 2019 01:59 PM)My dad's dad's side is very Irish maybe about/technically all Irish of some kind from Northeastern Pennsylvania, Scranton, not a farming family and Catholic.
My grandma has some Irish and she's from a farming family. I don't know what religion, but she didn't have a religion. She mostly has Pennsylvanian ancestry and some from New York state.
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Platonic_Caveman — 6 years ago(August 26, 2019 04:47 PM)
I have a little "Scotch-Irish" on my mother's side mixed in there somewhere.
"Scotch-Irish" is not really Irish though. It's Scottish from Northern Ireland. Real Irish are always Catholic. Scotch-Irish are Protestant, Presbyterian. There is no Catholicism in my ancestry, zero, nada.
When you say "Pennsylvanian" I think Pennsylvania Dutch, which is actually German, not Dutch.
Funny that often when Americans talk about Irish they mean Scottish. And when they say Dutch they mean German. Lol.
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️ Christina 1986-05-20 — 6 years ago(August 26, 2019 05:19 PM)
I am not sure if I have Scottish, but it says the same thing in our Work family book as online, that it's Scottish. I've looked up the Orkney Islands, and it seems supercool!
I don't know how to find out if we have PA Dutch, but I have German last names probably: Burkhart, Kifer, Work, Shultz, and Rickard, as possible candidates and possible genealogy areas. These names though also have something to do with Poland/Switzerland possibly and migration to England, according to the internet. I have Irish names: Barber, Mortimer, Long … and on my dad's dad's side Barrett, Donahue, and Noon. I'm not sure how real the Irish is and maybe compared to what most real Irish people are. We had records on my dad's mom's side that got burned down in a building.
It seems Irish is good but I feel it's disconnected from Europe, like Italy, Spain, etc.
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Platonic_Caveman — 6 years ago(August 26, 2019 06:00 PM)
One thing to remember about Americans is that through most of history there was a strong divide between Protestants and Catholics. They didn't intermarry and when they did it was considered scandalous. Now most everyone is not religious so most people don't care.
Barrett and Donahue are real Irish Catholic names, not "fake" Scotch-Irish. Long and Mortimer are English or Scottish Protestant names, not "real" Irish. So you're a definite mix!
Your Pennsylvania side is German, the names are German, not real Dutch. It's Pennsylvania Dutch, fake Dutch, German. In my family tree they labeled some ancestors as Pennsylvania Dutch, German, and other ancestors as "Netherlands Dutch", real Dutch. I have both German and Dutch.
Yes, Catholic countries like Ireland, Italy and Spain are disconnected from Protestant northern Europe.
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azn_2 — 6 years ago(August 26, 2019 06:02 PM)
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cryptoflovecraft — 6 years ago(August 26, 2019 09:46 PM)
I have a lot of relatives on my Irish side. Irish families tend to be big with lots of siblings, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Most of my relatives live in Boston or in the Boston area. Boston is a VERY Irish (and Catholic) town. I grew up in South Boston, the same neighborhood that Whitey Bulger, an Irish-American gangster, terrorized during the seventies and eighties. (We also had the infamous busing riots back then.) The St. Patrick's Day Parade went past my house every year, the Kennedys were regarded as royalty and the IRA were seen as freedom fighters. Can't get much more Irish than THAT!
South Boston ("Southie") in the eighties: Blue collar, rundown and proud! Dig the IRA graffiti.