Match Totals by Service Provider
yDNA @ Ancestry = 1 critical match in Duplin County
yDNA @ Family Tree DNA I match as indicated.
12 Marker = 5 individuals in North America
25 Marker = 7 individuals in North America, 1 in Ireland
37 Marker = 7 individuals in North America, 1 in Ireland
67 Marker = 5 individuals in North America
111 Marker = 1 individual in the United Kingdom
Big Y 700 = 1 Match in Canada
Testing and Research Vitals
May 14, 2005 IBM National Genographic Beta R1b/R-M269
May 3, 2009 Family Tree DNA Kit ordered for yDNA & mtDNA
June 12, 2009 Family Tree DNA mtDNA+ results haplogroup J
July 14, 2009 Family Tree DNA yDNA-67 results haplogroup R1b-M269
July 17, 2009 Family Tree DNA Deep Clade R results posted L21+
February 1, 2010 Family Tree DNA Assistant Project Admin Quinn Septs
June 5, 2010 Genographic GENO R1b, M343 R1b1b2a1b5, L21
June 12, 2012 Family Tree DNA Promoted to Project Admin
October 25, 2012 Family Tree DNA DF41 SNP results
November 6, 2012 Family Tree DNA DF13 SNP results
March 8, 2013 Family Tree DNA DF49 SNP results
April 18, 2013 Family Tree DNA L193 SNP results
December 7, 2017 Family Tree DNA R1b-L21v2 SNP results
August 22, 2019 Ancestry DNA Autosomal results
April 2, 2020 Family Tree DNA R-FGC11134 SNP Positive
April 15, 2020 BigY700 BigY 700 SNP results posted R-BY72795
April 22, 2020 CTS4466 CTS4466 SNP negative
January 23, 2021 atDNA Autosomal results added to FTDNA
Personal Notes:
- Beta National Geographic Genographic in 2004 working for IBM.
- yDNA and mtDNA testing at BigY and mtDNA Plus from Family Tree DNA.
- Ancestry DNA atDNA test with Ancestry.com and then imported to Family
Finder at Family Tree DNA.
The size of Databases and the Algorithms matter. Unfortunately, no service provider offers the tools necessary to lay the genomes one on top of another for comparison purposes. I only have my own DNA and become the pseudo baseline for my research and the power of spreadsheets that do parts of the dirty work for me that tire me to no end. I have observed for half a decade or more specific correlations between ALL the R-FGC11134 matches for myself and others in the Quinn DNA Project at Family Tree DNA.
From early 2010 until mid 2019 I was the sole Project Administrator of the Cuinn/Quinn Global Surname Project and all spelling an linguistic deviations related at all to the surname Cuinn which is the Gaelic way it would have been spelled letter for letter and is a possessive noun for the given name Conn. This is Conn’s half and this is Conn’s son Art mac Cuinn and so on. Some connected, mostly via the R-M222 dissimilar surnames and common Quinn surnames such as Neill in all its forms as this is the given name for Neill O’Cuinn. was very casually active from 2018 until earlier this year when Tim McEvoy aka Guinn volunteered to take the helm and I stood aside, and acquiesced.
The endeavor was highly educational albeit scientifically elaborate, but deficient in the accurate definitions as they seemed to be redefined multiple time throughout the year. How was it that I was able to produce a completely different picture than the matching algorithms could provide? I was labeled disingenuous by some and not at all authentic by others. No matter, I found by accident the verifiable way to connect the feminine lines to their corresponding male lines in the absence of both yDNA and mtDNA through the atDNA for at least for a few generations before any useful information dissolves .
As a result of having access to a couple hundred Quin yDNA lines and my own, I was set upon finding out more information about my line, then define the others in the form of the project’s participants projected sept affiliations from Conn of the Hundred Battles, the undisputed progenitor of the Cuinn surname through his elaborate lineages and through his descendants including his son Art mac Cuinn who ascended to the High Kingship of Tara. Surname use boys and girls. I could further elaborate such as with Leath Cuinn (Conn's Half) and Leath Moga (Mugh's half) as they relate to the legendary ancient divisions of Ireland and how the genetics of Cuinn in the south are only missing the R-M222 markers with most of the remaining marker matches in the specific modal ranges. I could tell you that Conn’s daughter, Art mac Cuinn’s sister Sadhbh was married to Ailill Aulom, a son of Mugh, who is more affectionately known and identified as both Mugh and Eoghan to solidify the ancient division and settlement between Conn and Mugh. I could then tell you how to show that those in the south are essentially the same as Sadhbh and those of the northern half are from Art and then his descendants especially Niall Ó Cuinn further identified as Niall "Noígíallach", the founder of the Uí Néill dynasties to the north, but I am not a scientist and do not subscribe to what science knows or does not know when they themselves use scholar-based intellect as their single instrument of discovery. An unwillingness to persevere and keep looking under rocks, behind the bark of trees, or just walk loudly through the forest neither hearing, seeing, or feeling all that surrounds and observes them passing by.
The Robert Frost Scenario
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; then took the other, as just as fair and having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear, though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, and both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.