Kevin Standlee: Fandom Is My Way of Life

Ah, some "Scotch-Irish", eh? As I understand it, that's code, in some genealogical circles, for "convicts sent to the Penal Colony of Georgia". But it also seems to have been used, sometimes, for ordinary Irish peasants fleeing the results of the potato blight, in the "no Irish need apply" era when Americans preferred not to mention any Irish lineage they might have. (My paternal line seems to have been largely English, mostly here since c. 1750 in New England, though my paternal grandmother's grandfather settled there after serving in the British Navy during the War of 1812, and her mother had some "Scotch-Irish" ancestors in Pennsylvania. My maternal line seems to have been solidly & dully Swiss/German, of comparatively recent immigration.) Now I think I'll go and finish up the last of the corned-beef hash.