>>My understanding is that the current chief has tested. I would assume the result is confidential; however, in the history I posted link to it states his result were similar to Nial meaning he's M222, but not necessarily of the classic Nial modal. Current Chief plus one at least: (I also see Robertson of Calvine also conforms to NW Ireland modal) NEWS FROM THE CLAN DONNACHAIDH DNA PROJECT 2006 no.1: "So far we have only two results from people with an established line of descent from the chiefs of Clan Donnachaidh. These results support a descent from Niall of the Nine Hostages, which would also support Skene’s theory. However, given the lack of information about the earls of Atholl in the 12th and 13th centuries and the very large number of King Niall’s descendants, other possibilities should not be ruled out. In the last Clan Donnachaidh annual James Irvine Robertson argued for a return to traditional clan histories, which recalled a link with the Macdonalds, a link that was also recorded by the Macdonalds. A different explanation will have to found for any Macdonald connection – genetic testing has revealed that the Macdonald chiefs descended from Somerled are Norse in origin (R1a) and thus not even in the same haplogroup as King Niall (R1b). However, there may still be some link with the Macdonalds, combined with a later male-line descent from Niall than the descent from Crinan. Descent from Crinan is undoubtedly part of the chiefly-line genealogy, but this could also have passed through the female line." http://dsa.duncanroots.com/Clan_News/DNAreport2006.01.htm NEWS FROM THE CLAN DONNACHAIDH DNA PROJECT 2006 no.2: "Known chiefly-line descendants come into the first group in the table below. At present we can conclude only that the people in this group share their results because they are descended or likely to be descended from Niall of the Nine Hostages or other people in his family 393 390 19 391 388 392 1. 13 25 14 11 12 14