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Description
The main object of this project to trace men to their ancestors to Scotland or Ireland, find cousins, determine family location and movement, determine if they are descended from Somerled in their purely paternal line, and determine clan branch or cadet line.
A second objective is to obtain reference point information from persons with known lineages willing to share their crucially important information for the benefit of other Clan families. Those persons may also wish to confirm or clarify written sources concerning their lines.
Non-MacDonald name participants (any spelling) should have some belief that their ancestor originated in historic Clan Donald lands: i.e. the western Highlands of Scotland including Kintyre to Ross, the Inner or Outer Hebrides, or Ulster or Leinster in Ireland or County Derry.
Our focus in determining “relatedness” is during the period from 1300 (the major growth of the Lordship) until 1750 when the Clan began to emigrate.
Requirements
A Surname Project traces members of a family that share a common surname. They are of the most interest in cultures where surnames are passed on from father to son like the Y-Chromosome. This project is for males taking a Y-Chromosome DNA (Y-DNA) test. Thus, the individual who tests must be a male who wants to check his direct paternal line (father's father's father's...) with a Y-DNA12, Y-DNA37, Y-DNA67, or Y-DNA111 test and who has one of the surnames listed for the project. Females do not carry their father's Y-DNA. Females who would like to check their father's direct paternal line can have a male relative with his surname order a Y-DNA test. Females can also order an mtDNA test for themselves such as the mtDNAPlus test or the mtFullSequence test and participate in an mtDNA project. Both men and women may take our autosomal Family Finder test to discover recent relationships across all family lines.
Surnames In This Project
Alexander, Allan, Balloch, Beaton, Blue, Boyd, Buie, Cochrane, Connell, Currie, Danel, Darrough, Donald, Donaldson, Donnell, Gillis, Houston, Hughston, Hutchinson, Mac Alistair, Mac Cain, Mac Ian, MacAlister, MacAllister, MacBride, MacCain, MacCall, MacColl, MacConnell, MacCutcheon, MacDaniel, MacDonald, MacDonell, MacDonnell, MacEachan, MacEachern, MacGill, MacIlraith, MacInnis, MacIssac, MacIvor, MacKeen, MacKeithan, MacKillop, MacKissick, MacLarty, MacQuiston, MacRanald, MacReynolds, MacRury, MacShennoch, MacSporran, MacSwain, Mc Quiston, McAlister, McAllister, McCain, McConnell, McDanel, McDaniel, McDonald, McDonnell, McKean, McRaney, McReynolds, Murchison, Murdoch, Rannie, Rodger, Ronaldson, Sanders, Sanderson, Wilkie, Wilkinson