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To: Alex Murphy

Anyone know how well the Scots-Irish got along with the Poles, Italians, and Lithuanians who poured into Pittsburgh at the turn of the last century. I know that my ancestors caught more hell from the Irish Catholics than from the Anglos and Scots.


2 posted on 08/07/2006 9:30:43 AM PDT by Clemenza (I don't want the world, I just want YOUR half!)
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To: Clemenza
Anyone know how well the Scots-Irish got along with the Poles, Italians, and Lithuanians who poured into Pittsburgh at the turn of the last century. I know that my ancestors caught more hell from the Irish Catholics than from the Anglos and Scots.

My Scotch-Irish ancestors in Pennsylvania intermarried with Irish Catholics. I've got a couple of Orange/Green intermarriages in my family tree. Complicating matters even more, my wife is Polish and Italian.

Random thought: Maybe my blatantly "Orange" (Scotticized Huguenot) surname was the real reason the Irish nuns at St. Mel School hated me so much. And I thought it was just sexism and anti-intellectualism...

6 posted on 08/07/2006 3:56:02 PM PDT by Rytwyng (Only a Million Minuteman March can stop the Bush Border Betrayal!)
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