Michael: My Y DNA is not helpful for any Carlow ancestors, because my ancestors are on my maternal line. I have a mitrocondrial DNA sampling as well, but all that does is identify very distant relatives, so far none from Carlow (but one from Longford, also on my mother's side). As you might have guessed, my Reeds were from Ulster (possibly near Londonderry) and emigrated to Pennsylvania Province at the beginning of the 18th century. Prior to 1600 or so, my Reeds were border reivers living in the Middle March on the English side. Tom Reed New Castle, Delaware, USA --------------------------------------- Original E-mail >From : Michael Brennan [mb006r9209@blueyonder.co.uk] Date : 06/14/2013 05:53 PM To : irl-carlow@rootsweb.com Subject : [IRL-CARLOW] DNA Testing Family Finder have a $199 special going at the moment for a Family Finder DNA test. I have undertaken this test myself and have advised some others to do so as it reunites cousins. Females as well as males can undertake the test and it finds cousins on both sides up to 5th cousins. It is just a mouth swab and so easy to do. I have nothing to gain by promoting this test but thought if members from our Carlow list undertook this test it could bring some amazing connections I believe. People who had no idea they connected and it may really help some of them or us to make some good progress. Anyway last time I sent a link to this site it didn’t get posted so I thought I would write to you directly to see what you thought. http://www.familytreedna.com/landing/family-finder.aspx http://www.familytreedna.com/default.aspx From Susan Warren<ousie@optusnet.com.au>; ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-CARLOW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message