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From: David Grant <>
Subject: Re: [R-M222] Genetic Distance/Diversity
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:47:26 +0100
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> "Curious about the Grant, I thought that was a Norman surname."
Illustrative of the problems with Irish surnames.

"Grant" can be Norman (you can follow the name in Kilkenny from 1200)
"Grant" can be Scots with the Ulster Plantation
"Grant" can be Irish as in Donegal where for some reasons the "Granny"
all became "Grant"
"Grant" oddly has the biggest concentration round Newry, and I have no
idea as to the root.

Shows the problems of looking at a surname and trying to judge where the
owners originally came from

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