Hi John, Congrats! Where there is smoke there is fire, and it now appears that you have caught on to something! It appears that you have had some exceptional good luck. Best, Doug On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 12:45 PM, john.loughney@gmail.com < john.loughney@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I just had an autosomal DNA match with a William MacGillivray on 23andme. > His yDNA haplogroup is listed as M222+. I am going to see if I can talk him > into a more advanced yDNA test. MacGillvary is my mother's maiden name, > and I can find a sort of paper trail to our common ancestor from the > Moidart area of Scotland (near Arisaig). Clan MacGillivray seems to have > originated in the western Hebrides, potentially on Mull. Clan history > remarks that they were an important Clan prior to Somerled. Later, they > sought protection under the McIntoshes and became part of the Clan Chattan > federation. Clan MacGillivray were eventually awarded land in Inverness in > the 15th century (or so). > > I would assume this would point to the MacGillivray's being Dál Riata, but > of course further testing would be needed. There is an FTDNA Surname > Project for them as well, see > > https://www.familytreedna.com/public/MacGillivray/default.aspx?section=yresults[there > are M222+ listed there as well]. > > I noticed that John Lochlan asked about the MacGillivray's back in 2011: > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/DNA-R1B1C7/2011-04/1301697029 > > John > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DNA-R1B1C7-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message