Dear Listers I can only trace Islay McKinnon ancestors to 18th century and they're pretty well confined to Kynagarry and Bowmore. They may well have come from Mull. Quite a few Islay marriages to link McKinnon's with MacMillan (Tockmal), Cameron, McCorquodale (Nosebridge), Spence (Bowmore), Brown (Bowmore) so there are some genealogical links to the wider community. Eliane Scott is the expert! I'm happy to go along with Trica's idea of a shared DNA listing. I have had an FTDNA account (F287689) test results for 111STR and Genographic & Britainsdna SNPs. GEDmatch don't appear to have any interest in these tests so I have an autosomal test on the way. I've not the faintest idea what X-DNA is all about. Hope to understand before I die. I have a public listing of my STR on Ysearch.org. Happy to list on GEDmatch when I have autosomal results. Anybody with the knowledge and energy willing to set up an Islay project on FTDNA? Where is best home for an Islay DNA list? John McKinnon