McMurtrie
| McMurtry DNA Project
The
DNA Project is open to new participants.
As a member of the McMurtrie | McMurtry Society, you are welcome
to take part in our exciting DNA Project and have the results
analyzed by our researchers. Testing a male
in your family has the potential to expand knowledge of your family’s ancestral
roots in Ireland
and / or Scotland.
Participants in the McMurtrie | McMurtry DNA Project receive a
33% discount on the cost of having their own or a family
member's DNA tested versus the cost of having DNA tested on your
own or tested with a firm other than Family Tree DNA.
Click here to join the McMurtrie | McMurtry DNA project at Family Tree DNA.
Under the heading Y-CHROMOSOME DNA TEST, select
YDNA 25 (US$ 124.00).
Pay for the test using your
credit card.
Family Tree DNA will send you a test kit.
McMurtrie | McMurtry DNA Project
Report
For decades,
McM family members have wondered about their family origins.
Some asked whether their families came from Ireland, Northern
Ireland, Scotland, Wales or England. Others wanted to know
their connection to the first McM in their lineage to come to
Canada, the United States, Australia, etc.
In 2004, the
MacMurtrie Clan Family Records learned that one could use DNA
genetic testing to tell which McMurtrys shared a common ancestor
and which ones didn’t. So for the first time in history, it
seemed that some of those perennial questions might at long last
be answered. For those of us who had been studying the family
history for most of our lives, we were excited!
This report is
a summary of the highlights of a longer more detailed report (in
case you are one of those interested in the details).
Between 2004
and 2008, almost 50 DNA samples were collected from 37 McM
families around the world – the USA, Canada, Ireland, Scotland,
and Australia. We sought to tell how the McM of America were
related to the McM of Ireland and Scotland, how the various
Scottish and Irish families were related to other McM families
across the Irish channel and within their own countries, and how
the McM of America were related to each other. The results
were astounding! The report that follows summarizes what we
have learned and what still remains a mystery.
Click here to download the Final Report (PDF)