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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Cavan => Topic started by: crb83 on Thursday 09 April 20 20:11 BST (UK)
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Good afternoon/evening to County Cavan researchers. I am the administrator of the McGovern YDNA group on FamilyTreeDNA https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/mc-govern/about (https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/mc-govern/about)
I have been the admin for almost 2 years, and took over after a long period of time where there hadnt been much updating or testing, and only a handful of McGoverns are active members that have tested 67 markers or better on the Y-chromosome. I figured I would spread the word here in case any McGoverns were considering doing DNA research but did not know where to start or how to go about it. The Y-chromosome tests track your direct paternal origins, unlike the ethnicity tests/autosomal DNA tests which are only reliable for 4-6 generations which most of these big companies are pushing. FamilyTreeDNA has the best and most up to date testing (BigY700) for this. It would have to be a male McGovern in your family doing the test. If anyone has any questions, would like to participate, you can reply or message me directly.
Thank you!
Chris
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This topic is from several months ago so not sure if its still active. My family are McGovern's and my brother took an Ancestry DNA test about a year ago but may be interested in doing a FamilyTree DNA test.
If you would mssge me more information, what you need etc I'll get back to you.
Thanks.