Hi Maisie, If the men in your family have the Haplogroup M222, you can forget any notion of being a Viking from York. You are as Irish-Scots as it is possible to be. That doesn't mean of course that one of your female ancestors didn't come from Viking stock, at least one of them almost certainly did but you father's line is Irish. The M222 Haplogroup is heavily concentrated on a handful of families in Northern Ireland who over the last 1000+ years have been heavy breeders. If you follow this link to Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_R1b_(Y-DNA) and scroll down two thirds of the way down the page you will get about the simplest explanation of M222 I have seen. Mark -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Maisie Egger Sent: 09 October 2013 02:45 To: Frank Mcgonigal; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Lanark] LANARK Digest, Vol 8, Issue 165 I'm in HUGE DENIAL, Frank, not wishing to insult you, but this connection to Ireland does not impress me as any resources I've found so far indicate that my lot most likely originated in York...of Viking stock perhaps! I wrote Cliff that it is altogether too complicated to get my head around. Maybe the male brain is more receptive, for why else the DNA test is "male dominated?" I know, there is some testing for the female side, but that's for another day. The huge IF is that IF your DNA rooted in Ireland is the same as mine, does this mean that "somebody" pollinated the same "flowers?" See, I really don't know what I am talking about. Maisie