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McGee, McGehee, McGhee, Magee --
The name M'Ghie is said to have it's first recorded use as MacEthe in Dumfries, Scotland in 1296. The common American surnames of McGee, McGhee, and Magee share this root. These names (and other variants) are all treated as the same for the purposes of this project.
In the early seventeenth century the 'Plantation of Ulster' by the English and Scots was begun and a number of MacGhee's settled Ireland during that time. Starting in the early eighteenth century and continuing sporadically until the start of the American Revolution, large numbers of these Scotch-Irish or Ulster-Scots emigrated to America. The ancestors of many present day McGee's set foot on American soil during that period and more arrived during the mid nineteenth century as they fled the Irish Potato Famine.
The McGee Surname DNA project seeks to identify the lines of the present day McGee's and, together with genealogy research, determine how they relate to one another.
DNA results will be posted on McGee Y-DNA Results
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
Mackay, Mackey, Mackie, Magee, McGee, McGehee, McGhee, McGhie, McKay, McKee, McKie