I just want to share our success story. My surname is Haire. I have a Yahoo group for researchers of that name in any spelling. I also started a FTDNA group several years ago by buying the first kit for that name for my brother. A lady in Antrim Ireland with the maiden name Haire joined my Yahoo group a couple of months ago and I strongly suspected a connection to my family. We had her brother tested and we have a match! In fact the 25 marker test was only 1 off. The 37 marker test was 2 off which is exactly the same as when we tested my brother and a known second cousin in the US! Our family immigrated around 1788 so the connection is over 200 years back. Now of course I want to go to Ireland!! Some time ago I posted old letters that were sent to my immigrant family from the family in Ireland that stayed behind. They were from Ballynacraigy and Randalstown. The lady in Ireland that tested her brother still lives in Ballynagraigy! I’m so grateful for those letters because they hare full of family names. We now have to try to find the connection. Amazingly grandparents in both her family and ours in the US still had the same first names....John, William, James, Arthur etc. This should be fun! Linda A
I think my new cousin’s family lived/lives in Randalstown, not Ballynacraigy. Linda A -----Original Message----- From: Linda A Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 11:36 AM To: SCOTCH-IRISH@rootsweb.com Subject: [S-I] DNA Success I just want to share our success story. My surname is Haire. I have a Yahoo group for researchers of that name in any spelling. I also started a FTDNA group several years ago by buying the first kit for that name for my brother. A lady in Antrim Ireland with the maiden name Haire joined my Yahoo group a couple of months ago and I strongly suspected a connection to my family. We had her brother tested and we have a match! In fact the 25 marker test was only 1 off. The 37 marker test was 2 off which is exactly the same as when we tested my brother and a known second cousin in the US! Our family immigrated around 1788 so the connection is over 200 years back. Now of course I want to go to Ireland!! Some time ago I posted old letters that were sent to my immigrant family from the family in Ireland that stayed behind. They were from Ballynacraigy and Randalstown. The lady in Ireland that tested her brother still lives in Ballynagraigy! I’m so grateful for those letters because they hare full of family names. We now have to try to find the connection. Amazingly grandparents in both her family and ours in the US still had the same first names....John, William, James, Arthur etc. This should be fun! Linda A ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message