Anderson Blood

**Archangel** · 25th September 07, 07:08 PM

Don't worry about it, folks, anytime in the 1700's was a good time to leave Scotland, clearances or not. There was a war in 1715 and building up to war in 1745. Wars don't come out of nothing, so it's safe to say there were tons of political and social issues that prevailed on the Scots.
Yes, some was caused by the English, some was caused by the Scots.

The rest will get into more history than this thread needs. Time to read some books.

And that's all I'll say on that. Why would I want to steal Riverkilt's joy?

**ccga3359** · 25th September 07, 07:12 PM

Originally Posted by Archangel

And that's all I'll say on that. Why would I want to steal Riverkilt's joy?

Ah Ron's just looking for an excuse to get his kilt kount back up in the Hamishsphere.

**Bryan** · 26th September 07, 06:17 AM

Originally Posted by ccga3359

...back up in the Hamishsphere.

I like that!

**gilmore** · 27th September 07, 06:05 PM

<<< Please note that have a match with another member doesn't necessarily mean you are related. Markers mutate over time and can present false matches as a result. >>>

I am not sure what the author of this is trying to get at.

Of course markers mutate over time. That is how we determine how closely related the descendants of a common ancestor are, by how closely their markers match.

As to false matches due to unrelated Y chromosome DNA mutating to match over the generations, that is called convergence. It is extremely rare.