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O'Brien Surname Project

"There's a little bit of Irish in all of us" - But are you an O'Brien?
  • 1013 members

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  • Dec 2018, we now have 729 members of which 101 have completed the BigY. Amazing
  • May 2017, we have 53 members who have undertaken the Big Y updates - excellent
  • May 2017, we have 576 members
  • May 2017, 442 members have had their Y-DNA submitted
  • Oct 2016 - Presentation at the Genetic Genealogy Ireland Conference in Dublin.
  • Oct 2016 - We now have over 500 members, including over 400 YDNA members
  • Sep 2016 - New L226 SNP pack test available.
  • June 2014 - New SNP tests are being developed by FTDNA - we also have over 325 members
  • Feb 2014 - The Big Y test have indicated new sub-SNP's for the L226 group
  • Feb 2013 - we have 276 members
  • Dec 2011 - we have over 200 members
  • Dec 2009 - we now have 150 members
  • During 2009 a new sub group called Irish type III was identified, this grouping seems to be very common to a number of project members, originating from the Shannon Counties of Ireland. Refer to http://www.irishtype3dna.org/ for more information
  • Jan 2009 - we now have over 130 members and growing
  • Sept 2007 - We now have 98 members and growing.
  • May 2007 - We now have 88 members and growing.
  • Apr 2007 - We now have 84 members and growing.
  • Feb 2007 - We now have 78 members and growing.
  • Dec 2005 - We now have 35 members and growing.

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21 Oct 2004 - the O'BRIEN Surname DNA Project was announced.