 The Plantation Surnames of Ireland (Scots-Irish) Map is now available to purchase (click here).
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 PART II: The origin of the Gaels has remained a mystery until the advent of modern commercial ancestral DNA testing.
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 PART I. The hundreds of DNA Case Studies performed at Irish Origenes have revealed some fascinating findings with regards the ancestry of the Irish male.
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 (Updated December 2021) The surname ‘O'Brien’ literally means 'descendant of Brian,' the most notable ‘Brian’ in Irish history being the High King of Ireland ‘Brian Boru.’ Brian Bor
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 By examining the genetic distance between selected members of the R-M222 family and comparing it to the timetable developed by Scottish Origenes one can determine when the R-M222 Adam lived.
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‘Vikings,’ ‘Foreign Helpers’ and ‘Raiders from across the Sea’
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 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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