 Anybody who has taken a simple painless commercial ancestral Y-DNA test (which only explores your paternal ancestry) will potentially have matched many people with lots of different surnames, and will have wondered when
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 Don Anderson, who is an adoptee from Oregon, has released a book which is a must read for all adoptees wishing to uncover the identities of their birth parents.
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 The DNA does not lie and upon commercial ancestral DNA testing the people who appear as a genetic match to you share a common ancestor with you, it is merely a matter of w
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 DETAILING the origin of approximately 4,000 different Scottish surnames, the Medieval territories of 400 of t
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 Surname distribution mapping reveals that the Graham surname is associated with Scotland and bordering English Counties.
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 The beauty with the DNA approach to researching one’s ancestral origin is that the DNA does not lie!
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 Surnames evolve over both time and distance, and change usually at the whim of an administrator who simply records an unfamili
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 At Family Tree DNA’s annual conference in 2012 I presented results demonstrating that the Scottish 'Valentines' were descended from a MacGregor who had changed his surname sometime in the early 1600’s; a direct re
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 I’ve been busy recently doing Case Studies and working on a Surnames and Y-DNA Map of Scotland (previewed here).
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