We have two project members by the name Hamilton. One in I-L161 Isles A and the other in R1b no known clade. Their earliest known ancestors were born in the US...
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Colin Ferguson
colinfergie
Mar 7, 2012 1:26 pm
We have one person in the project named Downing with an ancestor born in Ireland. He falls within R1b no known subclade. O'Donovan Hereditary Proprietors of...
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Colin Ferguson
colinfergie
Mar 9, 2012 4:25 pm
http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/DNA/IRL-CORCA-LAIDHE-DNA.html The link above will take you to an alternative mailing list for our project. We...
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Colin Ferguson
colinfergie
Mar 12, 2012 3:09 pm
Results are in for kit: N17039, name: Mongan, ancestor: Martin Mongan, b. abt 1830 and d.abt 1900, Ireland. He is R1b and falls within no known subclade thus a...
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bowessurnames
Mar 15, 2012 4:44 pm
I have been stuck on Corca Laidhe in SW Cork Skibbereen/Baltimore area, where I've gathered they more or less concentrated when the Eoganachta pushed them...
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Colin Ferguson
colinfergie
Mar 16, 2012 1:02 am
Hi Martha, I'd like to know more about that as well. Colin...
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bowessurnames
Mar 17, 2012 3:03 am
Colin, I was under the impression that you feel there are no known Driscoll descendants of the chiefly line? I spotted this in the right margin of the WikiP...
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Colin Ferguson
colinfergie
Mar 17, 2012 1:20 pm
Hi Martha, I think by known princes Murchada is referring to this statement on the same page. "Henceforth the O Driscoll were but tenants on their ancestral...
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Colin Ferguson
colinfergie
Mar 17, 2012 1:42 pm
Hi Martha, I don't have the book handy so if someone can double check that would be good. I think by known princes Murchada is referring to this statement on...
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Colin Ferguson
colinfergie
Mar 19, 2012 1:47 pm
The most definitive pedigrees of the Corca Laidhe (CL) are the O'Driscoll and O'Coffey. Here is a summary of surname matches limited to the DNA groups where a...
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Janet Crawford
reojan1
Mar 19, 2012 2:00 pm
... Colin, I just ran across information in de Bhulbh that says Coe and Coey are variations of Coffey, and so those surnames probably should be included in the...
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F. X. Flinn
FXFlinn
Mar 19, 2012 2:14 pm
Colin, As a mostly lurking I2a2b Flynn/Flinn I want to say thank you for all the effort you are putting in. I'm enjoying your emails and learning a lot, but ...
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Colin Ferguson
colinfergie
Mar 19, 2012 3:30 pm
Hi FX, Q: how much trust would you put in the generational matching that comes up at dna.ancestry.com? A: Not much, but that is not unique to ancestry.com...
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Colin Ferguson
colinfergie
Mar 20, 2012 1:00 pm
This is a book consisting of 5 volumes published in 2004 and based on material written circa 1650; see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leabhar_na_nGenealach It...
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Colin Ferguson
colinfergie
Mar 26, 2012 7:41 pm
We have had a few results come back that looked suspicious and then asked FTDNA to reexamine. I am satisfied with the quality of the lab work and do not feel...
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Colin Ferguson
colinfergie
Mar 28, 2012 3:51 pm
... Hi Janet, I don't think we see anything either other than a very complicated problem. There is a technique for looking at the problem which should be able...
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Mark
mjost99
Mar 30, 2012 12:55 pm
I was interested in the L226 comment and went to the FtDNA site https://my.familytreedna.com/snp-map.aspx and was surpise the R-L226 guys has very little MDKA...
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Colin Ferguson
colinfergie
Mar 31, 2012 2:13 pm
Hi Mark, Thanks for the tip. Related to your comment is that in even in projects where the earliest known ancestor is displayed the info is often blank or ...
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Colin Ferguson
colinfergie
Apr 2, 2012 9:25 pm
One of our project requirements is specification of the direct paternal "Most Distant Ancestor". Martha collects this info in the course of the join approval...
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Colin Ferguson
colinfergie
Apr 22, 2012 2:48 pm
It will be a while before we have enough data to do the proposed statistical analysis. I've now solicited data from persons of Corca Laidhe names in the...
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colinfergie
May 6, 2012 4:56 pm
I uploaded to our files section a preliminary analysis using data from FTDNA, SMGF, ySearch, Ancestry.com and Trinity College. It serves to illustrate methods...
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John
irishsinger65
May 8, 2012 7:15 pm
A quick update. I was able to find a further generation back based on the ships manifest from the year that the Keady family emigrated to America in 1854....
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colinfergie
May 18, 2012 1:28 pm
One way to progress is by the process of elimination. For example, with the name Kennedy I think we can eliminate any Kennedy who is R-L226 aka Irish III since...
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colinfergie
May 26, 2012 1:47 pm
I replaced the file on the Hy Maine Coffey with a more comprehensive examination looking at all the septs of the Coffey and possible DNA signatures....
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Colin Ferguson
colinfergie
Jul 13, 2012 5:33 pm
A chronology of the MacClanchy from 1241 to 1641 appeared in the Irish Penny Journal in 1841 (O’Donovan, 1849, p 85). The article concludes with “the...
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philclancy@...
philclancy
Jul 13, 2012 6:13 pm
Collin, Thank you so much for this interesting information. I will look into it. My predicted haplotype is R-M269. Does this exclude me from this line of...
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Colin Ferguson
colinfergie
Jul 14, 2012 5:00 pm
... Hi Phil, Without other evidence, the only thing you can say for sure is that you are not paternally related to Paul Augustine Clancy or to any of the other...
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philclancy@...
philclancy
Jul 15, 2012 4:19 pm
Thank you Collin. I will investigate this Michael Clancy. We might have a common ancestor. Our Clancys were in the US by the lagte 1700s and we have lost...
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colinfergie
Nov 27, 2012 7:50 pm
In July I submitted a paper to the Journal of Genetic Genealogy on the Corca Laidhe. As of a couple of weeks ago they had not acted on it. I am no longer have...
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fiona_mlundy
Apr 19, 2013 12:44 am
John O'Hart gives Coffey of Munster as the ancestral line for the Isle of Skye Nicolsons. Recent DNA testing of one Nicholson (FTDNA 224032 67 Markers) has...
