Irishtype3dna.org Website Review

we are merely the present-day custodians of our ancestor's genes. testing of short tandem repeat markers (strs) on the male y chromosome is the commonly used tool available to genealogists. some are using this technique to investigate connections with others bearing the same surname and in this way are making contact with 4th, 5th and 6th cousins for the first time. if this is your aim, i strongly recommend joining your surname project as administrators there concentrate on grouping like results and finding recent connections. others are interested in the ancient origins of their cluster and this website looks at the origins and age of the r1b cluster called irish type iii, believed to be that of the dál gcais sept that lived in the area of ireland called thomond. if you have come across this website by chance, think you are irish type iii and have not contacted me before, i may have been trying to for those that are new to genetic genealogy, as the use of dna in genealogy is called, and believe they will find this discussion a little daunting, i suggest it may be worthwhile spending a little time with some basic reading:- r1b is the most common haplogroup in western europe with especially high incidence in spain, portugal, western france and ireland. the modal, (or most commonly occurring haplotype), for this r1b of western europe is called the atlantic modal haplotype, (amh). for more because of the large number of males that fall within this haplogroup, efforts have been made to find clusters that show differences in the short tandem repeat,(str), of their alleles from the amh by looking for similar variations in the haplotypes. your testing company has probably already suggested the broad haplogroup that you belong to, and if you are reading this page, you probably already know you are part of the r1b population. if you are unsure of your haplogroup, try jim cullen's haplogroup predictor if your markers predict this sub-clade at greater than 95%, then you are in all probability irish type iii.