O'Donnell Surname Project- Background

Background

While a surname itself may give us incomplete or misleading or, at best, only general information about the origin of a family, DNA-testing can give us concrete evidence for identifying and separating family lines. Y-chromosome DNA testing is especially helpful because the male Y-chromosome is handed down, father to son, unchanged through the generations, except for rare mutations which, in themselves, can be helpful indicators of branching. The accessibility and affordability of family DNA testing is doubtless the greatest technical advance in the history of genealogical research because -- at long, long last -- we have a tool to break down those brick walls!

mtDNA testers! WOMEN who have O'Donnell's in their genealogical family tree are WELCOME to this group! Please upload your family tree mtDNA data with GEDCOM family tree genealogical data, showing all surnames including O'Donnell surnames. I hope to connect the families.

Are you interested in matching your Y-DNA results to the purported Ui Niall study? Check out this link:

http://www.ftdna.com/matchnialltest.html

Order a kit and see if your results match. If you are already an FTDNA member, compare your results to those on the link above.

SOMEDAY I hope we can match members with the O'Donnell surname to that of the clan of Red Hugh O'Donnell. We don't have Y-DNA information from clan members with proven paper genealogical data. Someday I hope we will.

LINKS:

International Society of Genetic Genealogy (ISOGG) member http://www.isogg.org

Ellis Island: http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/

O'Donnell World: http://www.rootsweb.com/~irldon2/OD-World/index.htm

O'Donnell Coat of Arms and Family History
http://www.araltas.com/features/odonnell/

Arranmore Island, Donegal Ireland http://www.arainnmhor.com/muintir/

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