Below is a response from a potential cousin per our DNA study which may prove interesting to some. Unfortunately didn't help me much, but not surprising given my lack of information in re my Irish ancestors. Tom Beatty, line 199 ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Liam O'Caomhanaigh <ocaomhanaighl@donegal.net> To: Thomas M. Beatty <tkbpop@yahoo.com> Sent: Mon, May 16, 2011 6:26:45 PM Subject: Re: possible relation Hi Thomas, Sorry for not replying sooner but I was in London from the 11th of May, just returning home tonight the 16th May and wasn't anywhere near a computer for those 5 days. I am afraid that I am not of any immediate use to you as my earliest provable data only goes back as far as 1790. My family on the paternal side originated in the Carlow/Wexford areas of South East Ireland. Interestingly my ancestors marched North with a clan regiment to support King James at the siege of Derry , in the North West of Ireland, in 1690. After the siege several of the family remained in the Northwest in counties Derry and Donegal. My own branch lived in Donegal until 1880 when they moved into Derry City where we have resided ever since. Your surname is generally spelt Beattie in the North of Ireland and your ancestors could have been part of the early settlers from Scotland of the Elizabethan plantation. After the siege of Derry many of the settlers, who had defended the city, felt badly treated by the British Government of the time and many thousands of them emigrated to the "new world" around your timescale, becoming the Scotch/Irish. Incidentally the original city of Pennsylvania was reputed to be designed on the same grid basis as the city of Derry, which was also the main emigration port from the North of Ireland at that time. I do not really understand the mechanics of the DNA connections but I will have a look at local sources to see to see if I can find any variations of your surname in this area in the 17th century. I think you are going to have to be very patient based on the information you have and the timescale involved. best regards, Liam --- tkbpop@yahoo.com wrote: From: "Thomas M. Beatty" <tkbpop@yahoo.com> To: ocaomhanaighl@donegal.net Subject: possible relation Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 08:03:09 -0700 (PDT) Hey, "cousin", according to the FTDNA study there is a remote possibility we are related; viz 55% chance within 8 generations. Not very high, but at least a chance. My great, great, great grandparents were both born in Ireland and immigrated to the USA circa 1730; they probably spelled their name "Beaty", but there is no written record. I suspect that their ancestors were from the Border Country and were expelled from England by the Plantation Movement so they were bonafide Irish by the time they left for USA. I regret that I have no date of departure, ship name, port of departure nor port of entry although it probably was in the Pennsylvania Colony. They had at least one son, John Beaty/Beatty who was my great great grandfather. With this flimsy information, can you give me any information that might identify my Irish ancestors? Best Regards, Thomas M. Beatty, DD,BFHM ________________________________ Ditch that hotmail! Show your roots <--> http://www.donegal.net