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Offline Donnie Duvall

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Macdonald DNA
« on: Saturday 23 May 15 23:28 BST (UK) »
I would appreciate making contact with any Macdonalds of Hebridean ancestry who have had their Y-DNA tested.

I would be fascinated to discover any persons who belong to the R1a1a Haplogroup but who don't appear to be direct descendants of the Clan Donald progenitor, Somerled.

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Donnie Macdonald

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Re: Macdonald DNA
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 16 March 24 18:38 GMT (UK) »
Hello Donnie

I'm also a Macdonald in the R1a1a group. I've tried the Clan Donald USA DNA project, and corresponded with their DNA expert (Douglas J McDonald). Sad to say, I found him rather dismissive that I was not descended from one of the clan chiefs.  I wondered why, it's only when I went through the small print on their website that I realised they are biased towards proving the geneology of Clan chiefs. Perhaps non-Chief folk are not worthy?  But maybe 99% of the clan are not "chiefs", so where does that leave the great majority?

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