After reading all the pros and cons of DNA and who belongs to who, my only connection throughout what has been described is Mark's comment - based in the Parish of Clyne, the village of Brora in Sutherland – my DNA would connect me to the consumption of the beautiful liquid gold product at and from the Clynelish Distillery in the village of Brora! Cliff – you mentioned a few years back the DNA grouping of the surname KEITH, my own maiden name, how I would love to find where my lot arrived from into Edinburgh.....fancy trying to tie that in with female SMITH.....then from a death registration I have a Mary JOHNSTON wife of Thomas CARNIE, they “presumably” from Ayr/Wig. For Irene and the McLEOD / MacLEOD researchers - Would any of our senior Glaswegian listers remember being taught by a Jock MacLeod? Great to see the list with activity! Jenny

Clearly I appear to be in a minority of one <g> I can see no use at all for dna in my own research, I have no desire to know that a person whose name I don't know and likely never will, came from XXXXX several hundred years ago Neither do I see the need to line the pockets of the many companies pedalling dna checks and databases That is not say I don't think there should be discussion about dna on the lists, I really don't mind, my delete button works just fine :-) Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK)

Regarding the usefulness of DNA testing, I am very pleased with what emerged from my brother's test. With the surname Black we didn't have any idea about our origins. The FTDNA results came with a list of names of others who have close DNA matches and we found that the majority had the name MacGregor or associated names such as Greig or McGhee as well as a few Campbells. We assume that our name goes back to the time when the MacGregor name was proscribed in Scotland and the clan members had to take other names, Black being one of them. I have read that some of them also took the name Campbell, which this DNA match list would seem to confirm. We did the 37 marker test back in 2008 and in my opinion it was definitely worthwhile. Sheila Brewer ---- Nivard Ovington <[email protected]> wrote: > > Clearly I appear to be in a minority of one <g> > > I can see no use at all for dna in my own research, I have no desire to > know that a person whose name I don't know and likely never will, came > from XXXXX several hundred years ago > > Neither do I see the need to line the pockets of the many companies > pedalling dna checks and databases > > That is not say I don't think there should be discussion about dna on > the lists, I really don't mind, my delete button works just fine :-) > > > Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > > > ------------------------------- > > WHEN REPLYING to a post please remember to snip most of the earlier message. Be sure the reply to address shows as [email protected] > > You may contact the List Admin at [email protected] or click on the following link to the list information page online: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/SCT/LANARK.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message