MacNeil

Have you found Charles in any censuses? Did he remain in Nova Scotia or did he emigrate?

Yes Justin, he was in a TB hospital before he died and was on the Canadian census for the residents at the time. He was 19 when he went off to fight in the first world war, returned, got married had one child my father and then died of TB which he probably contracted during the trench warfare in France.

Did his military papers say anything about his relatives at all? Or where he may have been born or born to? EDIT: I just looked for Charles Alexander MacNeil's military papers, it appears he mentions his next-of-kin as Alexander MacNeil (this is done consistently), is this Alexander MacNeil his father perhaps? Or maybe a brother? I found this for a marriage of a Charles A. MacNeil to a Vivian Wolf. Charles in this record is about the right age and states his father Alexander MacNeil was from Sydney, Cape Breton and the family is Presbyterian, https://www.novascotiagenealogy.com/ItemView.aspx?ImageFile=14-988&Event=marriage&ID=145091 EDIT #2: On Nova Scotia Genealogy's website for Historical Vital Statistics I found an Alexander MacNeil marrying a Margaret J. MacKay both were from Cape Breton (Alex from Sydney and Margaret from elsewhere) they were listed under a Presbyterian marriage and their parents were John MacNeil & Flora MacDonald and Daniel & Christie MacKay respectively. If this is correct, it seems your MacNeils came from Cape Breton, but they were Presbyterian which would line up with not being a DNA match to any of the Barra MacNeil descended families.

Here's some links to Charles Alexander MacNeil's father & mother info as well as his father's death record: Alexander & Margaret marriage: https://www.novascotiagenealogy.com/ItemView.aspx?ImageFile=1817-92&Event=marriage&ID=53740 Alexander MacNeil death: https://www.novascotiagenealogy.com/ItemView.aspx?ImageFile=105-175&Event=death&ID=187098 Charles Alexander MacNeil marriage record: (is this your grandfather?) https://www.novascotiagenealogy.com/ItemView.aspx?ImageFile=14-988&Event=marriage&ID=145091 If these pages come up asking you to accept something, simply hit accept it is harmless.

Alex did say my line is from possibility Argyll but definitely Scotland but some where in western Kintry. He had also said my line had removed from Scotland for a long time. Possibly settled in Ireland before going to America. Now Jonathan's eldest brother Thomas was born 1740 in Virginia, USA. Most of the McNeill's that came to America at that time landed north of Virginia. * Kintyre

A route from Scotland to Ulster to the US is perfectly reasonable. I would look into that, is there any documentation of McNeils settling in Virginia in the early 1700s?

Yes there are a lot of McNeill's in Virginia and what is now West Virginia. But I couldn't connect them to my McNeill's. I have met distant relatives that have gone the looking for documents and came up with nothing.

Luckily for you being placed in the Taynish group shows you have some sort of connection to the Argyll MacNeill clan, which is better than finding no clues. What are the earliest dates that McNeills arrived in Virginia?

Goodwins in my family line, I was "predicted" as 1M253 did the 111 but refuse to waste any more money on the MacNeil project , up grade or spend more money on YSTR values, big joke, we have been following they MacNeil project since 2005 and Vince MacNeil is "supposed" too be in our line as we were told years ago, My sister even matches our MacNeil line with quite a few MacNeils from Nova Scotia and some NB and PEI and ones that migrated to the USA

Malcolm MacNeil were are your Goodwin's from? My great great grandfather was Malcolm McNeil who came from Barra to PEI as a young boy in 1819.

Malcolm, it isn't a big joke. Unforeseen results can come from non-paternal events, adoptions, improperly linked paper trail information, etc. Do you match other I-M253 MacNeils? I'm also in the I-M253 haplogroup.

I've just ordered BigY, results due June/July. My McNeils are from Kilmodan (Cowal Peninsula) in Argyll, but related to some McNeils in Antrim.

I did the Y37 and found out my line is from the western side of Kintyre. Most likely Argyll. I have yet to find a match closer than 3 generation. Will the Big Y give me better information? If so what kind?

BigY will test your Y-chromosome in-depth and it will find a more accurate placement in the Y-chromosome tree of humanity. SNPs are more accurate than STRs. Big Y, although a useful tool is quite expensive.

If you have a Big Y match with a MacNeil it will generally show you somewhere in your Big Y results page. For example say they are on a collateral branch from your position that should be visible on the match page with the common root SNP being the shared SNP.

OK, thanks Justin. I'm still waiting my BigY results. Will be interesting to see where they plot on the tree.

Do you mean he has a null value at DYS10?

Look up the meaning of Micro Alleles and Marker DYS10 , that might explain more than me trying to explain, apparently FTDNA does not mention this when you question STRANGE RESULTS Mold (such as thrush fungus from inhalers can cause problems with micro alleles ) with saliva tests.. as can pre-birth DNA with your mother's DNA.