Ancestry.com is continually updating its analysis of the saliva I sent them a few years ago. My children gave my wife and me tubes to spit in and mail off to Ancestry’s DNA lab for information about where our ancestors came from. I’d been asking my older relatives about the origins of the various branches of my family tree for nearly 50 years and thought I had a fairly good idea about where they lived before emigrating to America.
The science of DNA is still a mystery to me, but I was very impressed with Ancestry’s analysis. It sent me a map of Ireland showing all three regions on the rugged west coast as likely places from which my ancestors migrated.
The clan claims a common ancestry from Nial(O’Neil) of the nine hostages 4th to 5th century AD. The Scottish branch is said to have originated in the 9th century in Loch Fyne, at Strachur in what is now Strath Lachlan where a ruined castle still stands. The clan was proscribed and decimated after the battle of Culloden, 1745 where it sided with the catholic pretender, Charles Edward Stewart, the loosing side .
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The clan claims a common ancestry from Nial(O’Neil) of the nine hostages 4th to 5th century AD. The Scottish branch is said to have originated in the 9th century in Loch Fyne, at Strachur in what is now Strath Lachlan where a ruined castle still stands. The clan was proscribed and decimated after the battle of Culloden, 1745 where it sided with the catholic pretender, Charles Edward Stewart, the loosing side .
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