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A blog about Scots-Irish, Scotch-Irish, Ulster Scots, Anglo-Celts, and Ulster.
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The Scots-Irish DNA Project now has 761 participating families. Below is a roster of the participating families. As you can see the families are a combination of Lowland and Highland Scottish surnames with a few native Irish surnames. All these families self identify as being Scots-Irish. Most of these families participated in the 18th Century Ulster Migration to English Colonies and early Republic, or in the 19th Century Ulster migration into Canada. The majority of the Lowland Scottish families are from Ayrshire, Lanarkshire, and Gallowayshire, and most of these families migrated to Ireland during the Ulster Plantation (1609-1720). The Highland Scottish surnames from Argyll, Lennox, and the Southern Hebrides; many of these families migrated to Ulster circa 1550-1600). The dominate haplogroups are Insular Celts (85%) and there is about 12% of the haplogroups of Norse/Norman ancestry. The native Irish surnames come from certain families that converted to the reformed faith and became part of the Protestant Irish community in the 1600s. Click on image to enlarge:
Below is a list of families participating in the Scots-Irish DNA Project as of November 2015. There are now over 900 participating families. The surnames are very typically 'Scots-Irish.' The Lowland Scottish names draw very heavily from the western seaboard counties of the Lowlands, with many families from Ayrshire, Wigtown, Kirkcudbright, and Renfrew (using the older county names). Most of the Lowland Scottish families migrated to Ireland post 1609. Many of the surnames, about 35% are of Highland Scots ancestry. The majority of these are from mid Argyll, Lennox, and the southern Hebrides. Many of the Highland families migrated to Ireland in the mid to late 1500s. Mid Argyll and Lennox were areas influenced by the Reformed faith and this fact influenced their relationship with the Lowland Scots migrating to Ireland in the 1600s. There are several native Irish families that became Scots-Irish, most of these were from the Bann valley and had converted to the Reformed faith or to the Establish Church by the late 1600s. The deep ancestry of these Scots-Irish families reveal that a large majority of them descend from the indigenous Celtic tribes of Scotland, over 84%, while the Norse and Norman origins coming in at about 10%. The Scots-Irish DNA Project is open to families of Scots-Irish ancestry. The project has several goals, including reconnecting Scots-Irish in the Diaspora with their families that remained behind in Ireland. Another goal is to locate a family's point of origin in Scotland and recover lost or forgotten family history. Multiple listings of a surname indicate the number of families with that surname participating. You will see a lot of Highlanders with Campbell and MacDonald the two most numerous. Several of the participating families are descended from famous Scots-Irish men, such as David Crockett (who turned about to be from Ayrshire ancestry, not Huguenot as often report in older history books). Families interested in participating can do so by contacting the Scots-Irish DNA Project. Click on a page to enlarge:
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The Niall of the Nine Hostages haplogroup (genetic signature) was one of the first large family groups discovered by DNA testing. It was designated as the Northwest Irish modal, because so many Irish in northwest Ireland have this paternal ancestry. It genetic short hand it is called the R-M222 family. The R-M222 branch of the Y-DNA tree has a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) called M222. As more men participate in DNA testing an interesting pattern has developed. This diagnostic marker is not only found in many individuals whose roots lie in the counties of Northwest Ireland and Ulster in general, but it is also found in the Scottish Lowlands. The map above shows the area where this profile is most often found. In the county of Donegal an incredible 20% of the population share this paternal ancestry. The map shows where the R-M222 is found in significant numbers, but it is also found throughout Ireland and Scotland, from the Orkney islands south to the shires of northern England. It even shows up in Iceland and Norway.
Clans of the Scottish Highlands. Illustrated by appropriate figures, displaying their dress, arms, tartans, armorial insignia.
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