In a message dated 5/16/2011 3:56:38 A.M. Central Daylight Time, equisand@equiformratings.com writes: Nigellus means blackish in late latin. There's a repeated thread of the use of 'black' in Lamont pedigrees and naming. Gille Dubh is an example. Black itself is another. In 1661 a 'blakboy' is said to have descended from Orcanus. It's so persistent that I have to ask the question : Can Y-DNA identify ethnicity? You can't go by that. Nigellus was used as the Latinized version of the Gaelic Neill or Niall. Or perhaps even the Scandinavian Njal. John