Project News
March 2004: Expansion of the McCabe family DNA project to include any and all McCabe and Mecabe males from throughout the entire world.
December 2005: Inclusion (on this webpage) of the opportunity for any McCabe/Mecabe family researcher to contribute to the success of the project by providing funds to support these genetic genealogy studies. For more details, click on the "Contribute to the Surname Project General Fund" at the left. Contact the Project Administrator to request that these donated funds be used for a specific study and/or if you have any questions about these procedures.
October 2008: Complete revision of the text portion of the McCabe website and adding a new group to the results table.
November 2008: Addition of the Cabe family to this DNA study. Addition of tables for mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) results. These results share ancestral information entirely on the maternal line whereas the Y Chromosome results share ancestral information entirely on the paternal line.
April-May 2009. Revised much of the RESULTS text portion, including adding another group and also adding information for most of the McCabe kit numbers.
May 2009. FTDNA added the section on Plotting Ancestral Locations, which produces a world map associated with the Y-DNA Results Table and the mtDNA Results Table. Most of the McCabe participants can now see how their earliest McCabe ancestor's birth or residence compares with others in this DNA project by going to their personal page. (See directions in Note 3 under Project Results). In AUGUST 2009, these maps are now available for non-participants to view beneath the Y-DNA Results Table and also the mtDNA Results Table.
July 2009. Added another group (C-3) in the Ireland to Canada area, based on three men who most likely descend from James McCabe, 1740’s immigrant to Philadelphia and 1760’s immigrant to Nova Scotia, Canada.
August 2009. Observation that most of the men in this McCabe project have the following set of values for the first 12 markers: 13,25,14,11,11,14,12,12,11,13,13,31. When checking the entire database of FTDNA, this haplotype appears to be unique to the McCabe and Cabes, with those individuals in other projects who have this specific haplotype not having significant matches with their own surname.
October 2009. Addition of SUCCESS stories to the Project Background section.