Project News
The Family Tree DNA Holiday Season promotion will bring back the discount that they offered this summer for the Y-DNA37.
• Y-DNA37 – promotional price $119 (reg. price $149)
• Y-DNA67 – promotional price $209 (reg. price $239)
• mtDNAPlus – promotional price $139 (reg. price $149)
• SuperDNA – promotional price $488 (reg. price $665)
Orders for the above tests need to be placed and paid for by December 31, 2009 to receive the sale price.[added November 2009]
The
Clans of Ireland AGM is on in Dublin, Ireland on the 18th March 2009. See their website
Clans of Ireland [added March 2009]
The Ireland yDNA Results chart now fully available. Check it out! [February 2009]
See the newly re-launched Ireland yDNA Project website:
Ireland yDNA Project website. The site has interesting information about the recent "Blood of the irish" tv program at
Irish DNA. [added 13th Jan. 2009]
Family Tree DNA has undergone a huge revamp of its website recently. [January 2009]
Here is a useful link to Eupedia Haplogroup Information (added Jan. 2009)
Note the Nov. 2008 haplotree designations have been adopted by the Ireland yDNA Project. (Nov. 2008).
We will do our best to answer queries from members or potential members.
When you have your yDNA results, we suggest you study the matches for your surname using the FTDNA matches and those at
Ysearch.
To add the location of your oldest PROVEN ancestor follow these steps:
1. Go to your Set Up Preferences page and scroll to the bottom.
2. Enter the male ancestor..oldest proven one with the project's surname...AND...for that ancestor enter the name, year of birth or death (some date fact) and location.
3. To add the longitude and latitude read the directions given. Please be careful when you cut and paste the decimal version of the long/lat that you omit the comma, but not the minus sign. If you cut out the minus sign, you'll end up in the wrong place. If you only know the state or county, choose the capitol or county seat as your long/lat location. If the person lived in the country and you know a nearby town, choose that. The map is small enough that it doesn't matter....AND...you have the location after the name.
4. Check the map to see if all is well. Go to Y Results on the main project webpage. The map is at the bottom.
Bookmark the following sites if they apply to you:
Ireland yDNA Project at FTDNA site:
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/IrelandHeritage/
Our Ireland yDNA Project website:
http://homepage.eircom.net/~ihdp/ihdp/index.htm
For anyone wishing to see how DNA samples are taken see Dave Dorsey's site at:
http://www.davedorsey.com/dna.html