DNA project update

Andrew Lancaster4 · Post by **Andrew Lancaster4** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:12 pm

Followers of our DNA project will be interested to check one of the newer results on the R1b table at http://users.skynet.be/lancaster/Maclea ... %20R1b.htm Kit 99507. If you move or link down to the explanation of the family's background you'll see the point. Please note that we have spent our time on this before publishing, and we are as confident as can be that the description given is a simple description of the facts as appropriate to a public webpage. So this is an important result for our project and clan. From a "big picture" point of view the pattern continues: the clan is not centred around a single dominant male line. This is not unusual, but it does sometimes surprise people in all of our families. Best Regards Andrew

Kyle2 MacLea · Post by **Kyle2 MacLea** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:01 pm

Andrew said: "From a "big picture" point of view the pattern continues: the clan is not centred around a single dominant male line. This is not unusual, but it does sometimes surprise people in all of our families." Amen, brother! A big bravo to those who have worked behind the scenes to get this sample going and we now have the results to use in future analyses.

Suzanne Livingstone · Post by **Suzanne Livingstone** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 7:36 pm

Hi Andrew Just curious.

Andrew Lancaster4 · Post by **Andrew Lancaster4** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 8:02 am

Hi! Family Tree DNA registers 94 people under the project, and then there are a few tests done through other companies or waiting for results, so "about 100" sound like the best answer. Best Regards Andrew

Craig McClay Wilson · Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:37 pm

Andrew, Saw a 4th name in the MacWho group, a Livingston. What do we know about this person's ancestry? Thanks, Craig

Andrew Lancaster4 · Post by **Andrew Lancaster4** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 5:56 pm

Hi Craig That would be Roslyn. Funnily enough she lives a few hours from here, near the Rhine, and her family are Australian like mine. Roslyn's family also come from the Dundee area, and also go back to the spelling Livage, but there is no known link between our families. Therefore we seem to have stronger evidence now that the Livages were one family, but how they relate to other Livingstons and Livingstones remains a bit of a mystery. Our DNA match to your McClays remains very suggestive though, that the spelling they eventually took up in the 19th century (but before Dr Livingstone was famous) was not by coincidence. Best Regards Andrew

Canadian Livingstone · Wed Mar 19, 2008 1:26 am

These Livingstones are from Ardnamurchan? Does anyone know where Ardnamurchan is? Donald (Livingstone) Clink

Canadian Livingstone · Wed Mar 19, 2008 1:39 am

Ok Ardnamurchan is near Movern. Thats great. Donald

Kyle2 MacLea · Post by **Kyle2 MacLea** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:34 pm

Graham, As Donald has said, we would very much like to have you as part of our DNA project, which will help us attach families known to be from certain parts of Scotland to other families with unknown origins.

Kyle2 MacLea · Post by **Kyle2 MacLea** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:41 pm

As a side note, I have a recent DNA match with a man named Calder with a strong historical connection to Argyll. This name Calder, like Cawdor of the Campbells of Cawdor, is exciting to me, because we have the 1518 manrent document between Clan MacLea and the Campbells of Cawdor.