I have had 30 something markers done on my Y-DNA. Where do I submit it for comparison? Mac ----- Original Message ----- From: "Toni Sinclair" <tonisinclair@hotmail.com> To: <SCT-ISLAY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 9:34 AM Subject: [SCT-ISLAY] DNA testing > Hi folks, > I recently received this message from a Kathy Johnston, who gave me > permission to forward this to you. I haven't had much time to study the > DNA project which my husband participated in (ie. Sinclair), but this adds > a new dimension - the DNA study of Islay descendants. Have many of you > done a test? Toni > >>Dear Toni: I have always been interested in my Johnston Y-DNA which does >>not match any other Johnstons but seems to match the McKechnie and >>McEachern Y-DNA more than the Johnstons. Johnston is supposed to be a >>Scottish border clan but I >think my father's Johnston was Mc-Ian and >>changed to Johnston as it was on the >island of Islay as you have >>suggested in your postings. >> >>When I do a search engine, I find these names on the Island of Islay, so I >>have a feeling that my father's Johnstons came from there or are related. >>All I know is that >my Johnstons were from Scotland in the 1700s. My >>Johnston is ID NEES7 at Y-search. >> >>When I look at your Sinclair name from Islay, there are many similarities >>with my Johnston, though not very close. However, if you look at user ID >> >EDHEE at Y-search, which is a McKechnie, the Sinclair seems to have more >>numbers in common if carried out to 25 markers. If you look at the EDHEE >>and >check to a genetic distance of 3, your Sinclair and my Johnston both >>show up as a possible match each at 25 markers with a distance of 3. The >>name McEachern >also appears which is a common name from the same clan as >>McKechnie and both occurred on the island of Islay and can be found in the >>same family. It is possible that the Y-DNA pre-dates the occurrence of >>names. >> >>Could it be that we have discovered a possible modal type Y-DNA from >> >Islay? Other names that are found on the island of Islay that have >>similar Y-DNA markers are Barr and Clark. The names Stewart, Brown, Cain >>(or similar) >have also been found on the island of Islay and some people >>with these names >have markers in common with EDHEE. They are not >>necessarily from this island, >but it would be interesting to see if these >>DNA markers match those names who >were from Islay. >> >>Have there been others from Islay that have been Y-DNA tested? >> >>Feel free to share this information with others from Islay. >> >>Tell me what you think. Thanks Kathy Johnston > > _________________________________________________________________ > Play Q6 for your chance to WIN great prizes. > http://q6trivia.imagine-live.com/enca/landing > > > ==== SCT-ISLAY Mailing List ==== > You can find older, archived messages from this mailing list by visiting: > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~steve/islay/archive1.htm - and from April > 1999, you can access archived messages at > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/SCT-ISLAY