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Hart Case Study
From Mr Hart: 'I have read your report and find it very interesting.' Thank you very much......
Hand Case Study
From Mr Hand 'Your case study has resolved a major question in our family as to our origins.
Hickey Case Study
This is one of the more recent Case Studies that would fit well under both the Scottish and Irish Origenes websites. Hickey is undoubtedly of Irish origin but like the vast majority of people today the test subjects distant ancestry was a mystery with suggestions of a possible link to Ireland. What the DNA revealed was very interesting and points to an explanation for the association with Ireland.
Colm Bell: A Scottish study
Colm Bell’s founding ancestor, the first to take the Surname ‘Bell’ was living in Dumfriesshire in Scotland close to the turbulent Scottish and English border. It was here that the Norman family called Bell (originally Fitzbell) held sway in almost constant low level warfare with other Scots and English families known as the border Reivers. The Norman Bell’s eventually became indistinguishable from other Scottish Clans with a Clan Chief and a Clan territory although as lowland Scots they probably never spoke Gaelic. How Colm’s ancestors ended up in Ireland...
Colin Egan
In about 800AD Ireland became the first European Country to adopt inherited Paternal Surnames. However, after 1,200 years there is only a 50% chance that you will still have the original or similar sounding Surname to your founding ancestor. In Colin’s case he still retains the Surname of his founding ancestor, who in Gaelic was called MacAodhagain (son of Egan).
Foy Case Study
Brian had no idea about his distant ancestry. The matter is complicated by the fact that Brian was adopted and ‘Foy’ is his adoptive Surname. However, Brian was aware that his biological father's Surname was ‘Whelehan’ and was originally from Kinnegad in County Westmeath.
Donohoe Case Study
Gerard had no idea about his distant ancestry. His family is from Dublin City. He has mentioned that there appears to be some confusion in his family as to the proper spelling of his Surname...
Bowes Case Study
My Great Grandfather John Bowes died while serving in the British army in Belgium in 1915. I know that Great Grandfather Bowes had lived most of his short life in the area known as the ‘Liberties’ in Dublin city, and that the relatively small number of ‘Bowes’ in that area were most likely closely related. I also know that they were mostly poor and Catholic. That’s as far as I got with my genealogy and tracing back further would probably prove time consuming, expensive and quite difficult. Then a number of years ago...
