mt DNA results

[skauwt]

thats great news
I'm awaiting my ydna 37 and mtdna test results in the following weeks and reading your wee snippet has made me more excited of what news lies ahead
interesting you have a Scots maternal side also especially with as you say the time span since when your ancestors lived

doing my mtdna has made me search the female lines of my family tree a bit more indepth than i used to before has this been the case with you also ?

[gilmore]

thats great news
I'm awaiting my ydna 37 and mtdna test results in the following weeks and reading your wee snippet has made me more excited of what news lies ahead
interesting you have a Scots maternal side also especially with as you say the time span since when your ancestors lived

doing my mtdna has made me search the female lines of my family tree a bit more indepth than i used to before has this been the case with you also ?

No, not really. My family has been doing this for a long, long time. In most of our lines we have either hit a brick wall, or have traced it back to Charlemagne and his immediate ancestors, which is as far as one can go, reliably (unless Charlemagne's great grandmother, Bertha, was a Merovignian, as some posit. If so, credible genealogies can be traced back a further 2 or 3 centuries.)

For me DNA testing is the tool of last resort, as opposed to some others, who seem to want to be merely tested and then profit from the decades of hard work that others have done.

[Paul]

thats great news
I'm awaiting my ydna 37 and mtdna test results in the following weeks and reading your wee snippet has made me more excited of what news lies ahead
interesting you have a Scots maternal side also especially with as you say the time span since when your ancestors lived

doing my mtdna has made me search the female lines of my family tree a bit more indepth than i used to before has this been the case with you also ?

Most of the people I know from Coatbridge claim to be 100% Irish!

[skauwt]

Most of the people I know from Coatbridge claim to be 100% Irish!

lol
well i do have a fair bit of Irish on both sides of my family tree ,mainly from the famine onwards
I'm one of the lucky ones in coatbridge that has the paperwork to actually prove it though.... you`d be surprised at the amount of folk who just claim to be Irish just because there from the south of coatbridge

[Paul]

lol
well i do have a fair bit of Irish on both sides of my family tree ,mainly from the famine onwards
I'm one of the lucky ones in coatbridge that has the paperwork to actually prove it though.... you`d be surprised at the amount of folk who just claim to be Irish just because there from the south of coatbridge

haha. I also have this paperwork. 2 grandparents had 2 Irish parents and one grandparent had 1 Irish parent. I'd say that makes me 3/5... the rest of my great grandparents were highland Scots.
My great auntie was a nun in Ireland too ;)

It's ashame so many Coatbridgers (hmm? lol) are big on Irish nationalism or even patriotism but when it comes to Scotland it's a different story. Really disappoints me!