Tell me where to locate their haplotypes for comparison, please and I shall respond once I have seen them. Dating is much more accurate at Y-67, but Y-37 might suffice at a pinch… My preference is you give me the kit numbers and name the project(s) in which these persons exist and I shall go from there - this is part of my job as an admin. Gail Riddell On 11/10/2013, at 12:36 PM, "Dora Smith" <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd be interested on anyone's opinion about a close Y DNA match between a > Gower and a Smith, close being about 18th century, where the Smith is known > to have been born in Ireland in 1769, and the Y DNA definitively traces to a > small area on the border between Perthshire and .... the county that > contains Alloa, near Sturbridge on the Forth of Firth. The two families > had no known contact, but we don't know where either lived in 1700. >