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From: JOHN PLUMMER <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Some Celtic Names
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 06:46:58 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <002a01c7db0a$3a7376f0$6400a8c0@Ken1>


Well 9 out of the 12 seem to be associated with Clan Chattan.

Ken Nordtvedt <> wrote: What do the following Celtic surnames have in common other than starting with Mc or Mac ?

McCarty
McArthur
McCormack
McCullough
McCracken
McDonald
McReynolds
McCrannal
MacPhail
MacNeil
McLean
McComb

In some cases it was not clear whether "Mc" or "Mac" was standard form.

These are a partial list of names which go with haplotypes which have been found to be I1b2a1-Isles-Scot M284+

Maybe one of our Celtic gurus can see a pattern here?

Ken

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