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This maybe a continual topic, a quick glance only shows links or subject matters about specific DNA results. So onward with my question...

Per my subject matter, what are the advantages of having my DNA tested, would it be as with normal genealogy you are reliant on people researching a different branch of the same tree to find the links to get any benefit in terms of finding connections.

Do the results refer to a particular period in history, my paternal line through std genealogy goes back to Carlow around 1800 and suggests a Viking O'Rourke connection travelling up thru Wexford as opposed to the Leitrim/Offaly O'Rourke's.

For a more pressing genealogy issue we've managed to go back to the 1850s only for my maternal Adamson's, would a test discover the origin of this line as we don't know anything about them prior to an 1854 marriage and it's not an Irish name but presumably an Anglicisation of MacAdam so Scottish/English connection.

Does it success also depend on which DNA test you use, i.e. if more people have used Ancestry's test would that be the one to select.

Thanks in advance for any response to my concerns/questions and possible justification of spending more money on the past instead of the future.

Regards
Darren

Various jobs from shunter to railway porter nothing as elevated as train driver or fireman, thanks Redroger

Hi

Are there any records existing that covers employment on the railways, even down to basics like name and where they worked?

Regards
Darren

Thanks Dathai, you have all the right detail for the Walkers, this side of my family is no longer at issue but does need further investigation as normal. Problem is the Nugents for myself and Gerry. We can't definitively locate a birth/baptism for Margaret Nugent and in turn link the other Nugent's under Patrick Nugent and Mary Geoghagan.

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Darren