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MacCarthy Cremeen Results

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Yes you are definitely Irish Type II. The mutations I highlighted are based on an Irish Type II background. The defining Irish Type II progenitor lived some time in the first millenium A.D. So all Irish Type II people will have mutations which occurred since then, defining their sub-branches.

I'm so glad that you have had a successful outcome in contacting Cummings. As I said previously, " I agree it only needed a generation to omit the "r" in O'Croimin (or variants!)"; who would have believed that a Cummings might trace back to MacCarthy? Do you have the kit number for Cummings? (Save me searching for it!)

There is no reason at present to suppose you are NOT descended from a McCarthy lineage.

Irish Type II is unusal in that it does not at present have any defining SNP (except the very recently identified L1312) beyond R-DF13 (which is common to many other lineages which do have two or more more recent defining SNPs). You could test for DF13 but I am sure you would be positive for this. Apart from that, it's a case of waiting until the professionals discover new SNPs (e.g, in the 1000 Genome Project) which are good candidates. L1312 has proved positive in ONE Irish Type II person only. He, however, has a very distinctive haplotype (i.e mutations away from Irish Type II) and no others as yet to my knowledge have proven positive for this. Quote from a forum: "L1312 was found using the V22 primers, which have been around a while, so I was able to re-blast the V22 chromatograms for the three previous Type II Irish (all are variety 13*-1511A-T2*) WTYs. Kits 11211 (O'Donoghue), 115485 (Mahoney), and 179653 (O'Sullivan) are all L1312-."

If you wanted to invest further my recommendation would be to extend to 111 markers (while the FTDNA current sale is on). The more (in McCarthy Groups A and B) do this the better chance we have of working out the tree structures over the past 1000 years.

Kind regards = marked private (refence can be provided)

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Comment by Susan J. Barretta on March 7, 2013 at 8:18pm: The title of your post "McCarthy branches and nicknames Reagh, Rabagh, Crimmeen, Spawnach, Mucklagh, Cawsca, Sowney, Cunic, Tollin, Bawny, Forshing" is an identical word order copy out of a posting that I published on 22-Apr-2010 called "McCarthy nicknames." That link is here:

http://www.genealogywise.com/group/mccarthy/forum/topics/mccarthy-n...

In that posting I attributed my source. Your posting does not.

I do not even see a link back to Nigel McCarthy and the McCarthy DNA project.

Length of time researching and desire to share information does not remove the responsibility to attribute sources.

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