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From: "Richard B. Hare" <>
Subject: [R-M222] Can anyone help me understand this?
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:56:02 -0500


This is VERY strong statistically, but now that I've stumbled across it I
don't know enough about DNA to understand what it means.



My DNA is 4 distant from the NW Irish modal at 37 measures. The difference
appears to be strongest at DYS385b where I have 12 repeats instead of the
standard of 13. (the others are: GATAH 4 is 12, CDYa is 38, and CDYb is 38).




Curiosity arose because I sorted the entire sample of FTDNA (100,000+ public
records) to the NW Irish Haplotype modality, allowing a distance of 1 in the
first 12 positions. This resulted in 184 records. Only 41 of these records
had 685b as a 12.and this was the ONLY variation that existed among the 184
records (12 instead of 13 at 385b).



Surname distribution is as follows:

5-Hare (including 2 Haire, and one Hayer)

4-Herren, including 1 Herron, and 1 Herring

2-McGarry/McCreery

2-Maxwell

2-Dorsey

1 each:
Magee,Reed,Scott,Montgomery,Pryor,Sweeney,Boyle,Custred,Bradley,McGinnis,Ker
nohan,Conley,
Menary,Cannon,Noland,Wilson,Ryburn,Beatty,McGinnis,MacKinney,O'Donnell,Patte
rson,Reed.



Most are either from Northern Ireland, or live where early North Irish
settled in the US.



We know our most distant relative was Wiliam Hare, who arrived in Boston
during Nov.1719 with 20 other single people (they were Read-Out of Boston
together). They arrived "with Captain Dennis" as farmers from Ireland.
Searching their surnames produced 77% correlation with those residing in
Maghera in the 1740 census of Protestant Households. Antrim had the next
highest correlation. There was nothing else worth mentioning in the other
census locations.



Any information is gratefully appreciated as this search certainly isn't
linear.



Cheers,

Dick Hare

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