The project has eleven members so far and more are needed. We include the many variations of the name: McCauley, MacAulay, McCawley, McGauley, McCowley, McColley, Macauley, Cawley, Magawley, McCooley, Gauley, etc. The original Gaelic form of MacAulay was MacAmlaiobh or MacAmhalghaidh. There were at least two Irish clans with these names: (1) in southern Fermanagh the descendants of Awley Maguire formed a sept of the Maguire clan, (2) in County Westmeath an important branch of the Southern O’Neill clan took the surname MacAwley. (3) Scottish settlers, most of whom settled in Ulster, especially County Antrim,are believed to account for the majority of McAuleys in Ireland. (McAuliffe, O’Calla, and McCollough are different surnames which are occasionally anglicized as McCauley.) Since there were at least four Scottish clans and two Irish clans of this name, and since most of their descendants have dispersed from the ancestral territories, it is extremely difficult for many McAulays to pinpoint their ancestral clan. Fortunately, DNA analysis technology can now help identify long-forgotten relationships, and the MacAulay Clan Society is coordinating a MacAulay DNA Study that will help MacAuleys find out which clan they are descended from. For more information on this project goto: http://members.aol.com/themacmog/DNA.htm Irish Prayer: May those who love us, love us; and those who don't love us, may God turn their hearts; and if He doesn't turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles so we'll know them by their limping.