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Irish DNA Success Stories
Irish Diasporas has been for many of us a major factor in losing our roots with Ireland. Since the 17th Century Ireland has lost many of her family for various reasons. Over a million emigrated from Ireland between 1748 and 1852. There are estimates of over 80 million Irish live outside Ireland, representing over thirteen times the population of Ireland (6.11 million in 2007).
Many of us are trying to find our roots in the mother country, but have no where to look specifically.
DNA testing has helped many either find family or find a location in Ireland where they know there is a common ancestor with another tester.
Currently, those with Irish heritage are the largest DNA testing group. I run the Ireland Y-DNA project through Family Tree DNA along with Austin who lives in Dublin and Margaret who lives in Cork. That project is the largest to date with over 3,300 testers and that is only from Family Tree DNA.
You can see the project at these locations:
FTDNA site: http://www.familytreedna.com/public/IrelandHeritage/
Ireland site: http://homepage.eircom.net/~ihdp/ihdp/index.htm
SO...join me in posting your Irish success stories!
If you have any questions regarding DNA testing, just email. Check my URLs below as well.
Best wishes,
Emily
http://writingyourmemories.blogspot.com/
http://www.rootsweb.com/~orgco2/speaker/EmilyAulicino.html
http://genealem-geneticgenealogy.blogspot.com/
Northwest Regional Coordinator and Speaker for ISOGG (www.isogg.org)
Administrator for twelve FTDNA DNA Projects
Many of us are trying to find our roots in the mother country, but have no where to look specifically.
DNA testing has helped many either find family or find a location in Ireland where they know there is a common ancestor with another tester.
Currently, those with Irish heritage are the largest DNA testing group. I run the Ireland Y-DNA project through Family Tree DNA along with Austin who lives in Dublin and Margaret who lives in Cork. That project is the largest to date with over 3,300 testers and that is only from Family Tree DNA.
You can see the project at these locations:
FTDNA site: http://www.familytreedna.com/public/IrelandHeritage/
Ireland site: http://homepage.eircom.net/~ihdp/ihdp/index.htm
SO...join me in posting your Irish success stories!
If you have any questions regarding DNA testing, just email. Check my URLs below as well.
Best wishes,
Emily
http://writingyourmemories.blogspot.com/
http://www.rootsweb.com/~orgco2/speaker/EmilyAulicino.html
http://genealem-geneticgenealogy.blogspot.com/
Northwest Regional Coordinator and Speaker for ISOGG (www.isogg.org)
Administrator for twelve FTDNA DNA Projects
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Permalink Reply by Emily Doolin Aulicino on
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Encouraging those in Ireland or any foreign country is a difficult step. I'm currently writing an article for Irish Roots a magazine published in Ireland on some Irish success stories. It should be out in Sept. and I will be posting the longer version to my blog. Hopefully, making the Irish aware of DNA testing and its success will help. BUT, you must remember that not only is Ireland, like the US in difficult economic times, those of us in the US usually have more disposable income that we spend on what some people would call frivolous things (DNA testing).
There have been genetic genealogists who go to Ireland and meet people with their surnames and then ask them to test. Of course, the requesting party pays for the test. Another way is to get on some of the email lists for the area you suspect your family lived and see if anyone can help you locate people with your surname. I guess the whole idea is to first make contact, get to know the person, share your paper trails, and then ask them to test. If you read the archives of my blog, you may find some approaches to help. Althought that post wasn't written with convincing those outside the country to test, it could help at a point.
Keep us posted on your successes...they sometimes come slowly, but don't give up! -
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