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From: "frank mcgonigal" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA-R1B1C7] New test results, what do they mean?
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:27:47 -0400
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Hi Mitch
Although I am quite happy with the 'Big Picture' evolving from all this
research,and it is very interesting,I find that I'm getting lost in results
and opinions expressed.

I had high hopes of finding some close matches with paper trails that could
result in expanding my research in Ireland,but this has never happened so
far..and I doubt that it ever will.

The technology has me confused,to say the least.I don't understand it well
enough to follow the very intricate details proving or disproving the
various research sources.

It seems to me that the best use of this technology would be in more modern
times to prove a DNA connection to a living person,whom you suspect from a
paper trail could be related..
I have found relatives all over the
world,Canada,Scotland,Ireland,England,Australia,New Zealand and in Ohio
USA,using Civil Registration Census etc.,but I've never found one using DNA.

On the other hand.. lacking a paper trail..
The chair at our local Ontario Genealogical branch had two groups of people
whom she thought could be related,but it was only when the Y DNA was
compared that they were sure.

I'll continue to follow the developments with interest.

Thanks everyone for at least trying to explain to we lesser mortals.

Frank McGonigal Ont.Canada.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mitch" <>
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Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 4:19 PM
Subject: [DNA-R1B1C7] New test results, what do they mean?


> Hello Group,
>
> I just received my Y67 results and once again I'm not sure what to make
> of them. I am tested R1b1c7 (ysearch NYSFU) and am now a genetic distance
> of 11 from the "Niall" NW Irish modal. I have no close matches and each
> batch of results seems to leave me further in the dark and no closer to
> discovering my Mitchell ancestry. I am still very new at this, but it
> seems I am spinning my wheels waiting for a match and it appears any
> connection to Niall or his legendary ancestors is fading away. Am I in an
> unusual situation, or do others feel they are just wandering around in the
> dark? Should I be frustrated at this lack of progress or am I just
> realizing the uncertainty of all of this? I feel like a grade schooler in
> a class full of college professors and I am not sure what to do next.
>
> Thanks for your time. I do enjoy reading the notes and feel I am
> learning...very slowly.
> Mitch
>
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