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 A serious misnomer
As someone who tries to read every book published on the subject, I was quick to buy this book, and quick to read it, but it proved a major disappointment.
I was expecting a comprehensive treatment of the subject based on the title, but that's not what this is; instead, it is a dreary recitation of the author's family history, limited chronologically and geographically to the author's area of interest. If your area of interest happens to include the Huston family, or the Shenandoah Valley, or early Kentucky, it MIGHT be of interest to you, but it's doubly damned by a schizophrenic narrative style and a serious lack of connection to earlier, better works on the subject.
If you've done any genealogical research, you have doubtless endured long tomes full of names and dates, strung together by a valiant effort to create an interesting historical narrative; that's essentially what this is, and if the surnames and placenames are not relevant to you, it is pure unrewarding drudgery. If they are, you might be interested, but don't expect to be entertained or edified.
 Scots -Irish in Early America
Larry Hoefling leads the reader through the migration of the Scots-Irish from the Scotland lowlands, to Ireland, and then on to America. He provides excerpts from the lives of different Scots-Irish surnames of these early pioneers in America which is invaluable for the genealogist with Scots-Irish ancestry. Mr. Hoefling as been able to merge the history of these people's migration to America, along with a personal look at wills, death records, marriage records, military rosters, and land deeds of these early pioneers. Anyone with Scots-Irish ancestry would find this book an invaluable addition to their collection, and may even find the name of one of their ancestors included in the book.
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