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From: Mark May <>
Subject: RE: [DNA] Scots-Irish
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 14:44:48 -0500


Scotch Irish DNA data bases would be most useful, i.e. from Ulster samples.
As many as 1 in 7 Americans at the time of the Revolution had Scotch Irish
ancestors, although by then there was quite a lot of mixing with English,
Huguenots, Germans, etc. Y STR has some Irish, my closest match in the
data base is southern Irish.

J Mark May

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In a message dated 10/4/02 11:43:33 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
writes:


> It is a gaping hole in the DNA data worldwide that should be plugged
ASAP.
> I one thought I might be S.I. both patriline and matriline which is why
I
> was so interested in it -- but my ystr results show a locus with
Groningen
> which probably means my patriline was some Norse remnant there rather
than

The research results in the database was apparently done by Universities
and
the purpose was to test a hypothesis about population movements. It was not
initially conducted as an aid to genealogist. If there are universities in
Scotland doing population studies via genetics they can add their results
to
a database. Scotland seems important to those of us researching American
families but on a global scale it's just another small ethnic group.

Grant W. Johnston, Chico, CA "The good thing about being self-employed is I
only have to work on days with a Y in them."



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