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Family Tree DNA is offering to those that have tested at 23andMe, to accept the tranfer of these results into their Family Finder. Those that have been tested using the V3 chip will pay $50 while those that were tested using the earlier V2 chip will, in addition to the $50, receive a voucher to allow the ordering of the full FF for an additional $109. Usual price of FF is $289.
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Origins
The following chart shows the Counties that participants say their earliest ancestors came from. This shows the origin of the cluster appears to be somewhere in the counties of Clare, Limerick or Tipperary.
'Ireland' | 63 |
Galway | 4 |
Offaly | 2 |
Clare | 38 |
'Ulster' | 4 |
Monaghan | 1 |
Tipperary | 23 |
Dublin | 2 |
Kildare | 1 |
Limerick | 20 |
Donegal | 2 |
Roscommon | 1 |
Cork | 17 |
Mayo | 4 |
Leitrim | 1 |
Kerry | 7 |
Waterford | 2 |
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Laois | 4 |
Wicklow | 2 |
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My paper, A Set of Distinctive Markers Defines a Y-STR Signature for Gaelic Dalcassian Families, proposing that the origins of Irish Type III are Dalcassian has been published in the Spring 2009 edition of Journal of Genetic Genealogy, www.jogg.info
It is available for download at www.jogg.info/51/files/Wright.pdf
The data supporting this paper can be downloaded from:- Supplementary Data.
