 Anybody who has taken a simple painless commercial ancestral YDNA test (which explores only your paternal ancestry) will potentially have matched many people with lots of different surnames and will have wondered when their shared male ancestor lived?
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 The beauty with the DNA approach to researching one’s ancestral origin is that the DNA does not lie!
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 A number of years ago a study by an Irish research lab failed to detect any Viking DNA in a small sample of Irish people with Viking-associated surnames.
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 Surnames evolve over both time and distance, and change usually at the whim of an administrator who simply records an unfamiliar surnam
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 I’ve been busy recently doing Case Studies and working on a Surnames and Y-DNA Map of Scotland. But this McCauley Case Study is of particularly interest to me and hence I’d like to share its results.
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 Its not everyday that you get to meet someone with whom you share a common male ancestor from approximately 1000 years ago. The accompanying picture is of Joe Dooley (right) and I (Dr Tyrone Bowes) and our
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 Had a great time in Portland and Seattle on my mini speaking tour of the Pacific Northwest, even managed to make a brief appearance on Seattle TV.
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 I recently gave a talk on commercial ancestral DNA testing that was aimed at encouraging Galwegians to participate.
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 Sometimes a quite remarkable Y-DNA Case Study comes along that I will try my best to get published in a Genealogical magazine.
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 I recently completed one of the most in-depth genetic genealogy Case Studies for a gentleman based on the Isle of Man called Bill Henderson.
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