Re: Tartan Question

[Pegasys]

My paternal Ferguson surname paper trail hit the brick wall of the british burning much of upper new england during the revolutionary war where my 2nd great grandfathers history started and his parents and their lives disappeared . I was able to paper trail all ancestors to their country of origin EXCEPT the most important to me , IE my fathers fathers fathers father ad nauseum My grandfather wore the kilt and was decidedly self professed scot , my mother who was decidedly irish/german scolded him every time he wore his kilt so I HAD to find out the answer . I turned to genetics to solve the question that that drove me to discover where ultimately I came from . Long story short I came to be placed squarely in the relatively new M222 (2006) subclade . I did some further downstream snp testing and ended up as M222 / S659 / Y2843 . You and I COULD be forgiven if we thought that this settled the question of Scot vs Irish with the certainty of science . The downstream S659 snp confirmed to me or rather my want it to be Scot origin . According to the Milligan/Milliken DNA Project http://regarde-bien.com/scottish-m222.html my conclusion is a tad less than rock solid So untill a descendant of a theoretical sibling of my 2nd great grandfather decides to do as I did I may never know for sure . What I do know for sure is that by nature AND nurture , temperament and personal proclivities I fit into The Clan Fergusson and have been embraced by them even if I do find out someday that there was an irishmen under the lein croich that resulted in moi . After all everyone who's in the know knows that the MacFhearghaus decendants are the true heirs of the first king of Scotland and Ireland , and we accept those who stayed on the south side of the Celtic Sea as family even if they got lost and couldn't find thier way back home !!!