Brett, whilst you await your full raw data you can copy and paste you genetic signature list and email it to myself and Susan Hedeen. Then you can get an extra pair of eyes on it. But a fair number of folk stop at S660/S659 so that might well be it. When we have confirmed where you are we can advise on where next. There isn't really a website to look at other than the tree you saw as things are changing almost daily. If you are S660 as your terminal SNP there are some brand new markers about to hit the shop, not quite ready yet though. Iain > From: bhward@hotmail.com > To: dna-r1b1c7@rootsweb.com > Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 17:58:04 +1000 > Subject: [R-M222] Ward surname and Chromo2 > > Hello all, my name is Brett Ward and I reside in Sydney, Australia. > > Mac a Bhaird (being Ward pre anglicised) as many of you will appreciate is an Irish occupational name (Bard, historian) and very old and reasonably prolific throughout Ireland. I can trace my family to about 1800 in Abington, County Limerick but the surname has its highest frequency in traditional ancestral locations within Galway and Tyrone. Ward is also a separate and unrelated English surname, but clearly causes much confusion. > > I have been watching DNA developments on this mailing list tentatively ever since having 37 STR markers mapped. This led me to test with Britains DNA (Ethnoancestry) a few years ago to ascertain that I was M222+. This then led me to look into Irish Ward DNA results and I would suggest that around 40-50% of Wards that I have seen are M222+. This may be little more than random for descendants from those West and North Western areas within Ireland. > > I have also recently just received my Chromo2 results from Britains DNA and am awaiting the raw file to be uploaded. They have a genetic signature page though that shows my 300 plus ‘positives’. > > Within Britains DNA tree, the lowest level I have achieved is S660, but I have aspirations! I have had a look at some trees, such as that to be found on the Kennedy website but do not seem to be able to find a lower level. > > As the song goes, where do I begin? Is there a useful guide somewhere for me to come up to speed quickly or some websites that I should hit first? I am very interested in pushing things along from a Ward angle. > > Thank you for reading and look forward to being a bit more active than the last few years, but that won’t be difficult. > > Brett > > ------------------------------- > 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