Begin forwarded message: Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 23:20:58 -0600 From: "Patty" <pattymcq@mindspring.com> To: <McQUEEN-L@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [McQUEEN] Public DNA DB; Family Stories - Truth or Fiction? Thanks I will check it out later, seems very complicated.... I really know where my McQueen ancestors came from Scotland and Ireland. The Gaelig name is MacShuibne or McSweeney derived from Sveyn Svein (Norse) related to the McDonalds of the Isles. They later were Gallowglasses for the O'Donnells chiefs of Donegal and settled into NI and some are still there. The Norse ruled the western part of Scotland for many centuries until defeated by Scots. The Norse also were invaders in Ireland and stayed for a few hundred years, defeated by Brian Boru 1014, many stayed and intermarried with Irish. Don't forget names in Ireland were in Gaelic translated into English so it's hard to trace some now. Enough history for now. Cheers, Patricia (USA) ----- Original Message ----- From: Valorie Zimmerman To: McQUEEN-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 7:56 PM Subject: [McQUEEN] Public DNA DB; Family Stories - Truth or Fiction? A couple of brief notes, now that the Rootsweb listservers seem to have settled down. As a gift, I got my dad a Y-DNA kit a couple of years ago. It's quite exciting to see some close matches come up. I noticed in the match-notification email of the lab who did the work for him and interesting passage: "Please remember to add your results to www.Ysearch.org, the FTDNA sponsored public database. On the right side of your personal page you will see an explanation and a link for the upload." So I visited http://www.Ysearch.org and was impressed. You can search for genetic matches, and search by last name. They say: In order to allow people that have tested with the different companies to make their results available for comparison, Family Tree DNA is offering Ysearch as a free public service. We have added several tools that allow you to compare side-by-side different users - the YsearchCompare - as well as generate a Genetic Distance\x{2122} Report, and many other features, including the upload of GEDCOM files. I've added this site to my link blog post about DNA & Genealogy research: http://valoriez.blogspot.com/2003/12/genealogy-and-genetics.html <snip>