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I do know that many people's trees claim Grisipol but I'm not sure if it's really known that his son Alexander is the same Alexander we see coming to America?  IF YOU WANT, you should ask our Clan MacLean DNA Project main admin if he knows more about this line. macleandnaproject@gmail.com

 We tried once to prove out a tree that someone in the project to Grisipo had but it didn't prove out so i know he has done some research..  Our admin, Duncan McLean also knows and has talked to the clan 'historian" Bristol-MacLean when necessary.  He may or may not be able to help but it's worth a shot.

Hi, I'm not sure if this is an active post or not but I wanted to respond with an idea for you.  We have several MacLeans from Uist (and elsewhere) in the Clan MacLean DNA Surname Project at familytreedna .com.  You would have to test a male of your MacLean line... it can even be a very distant male cousin or uncle, not of your direct line.  If you don't know of any, then we often suggest doing ancestry.com dna test, and building a tree with all the aunts uncles and cousins you can find... ancestry has very cool tools to help you build out that tree and if you did into your matches' trees you can often tell if someone is a recent MacLean who may know of a male that you can test in your line.  Just a suggestion.  Write to us at macleandnaproject at gmail.com.  All administrators are just volunteers with no interest in this financially.  In fact, we OFTEN will recommend tests from other companies as we learn more about your goals and your line.  We have identified clusters in Ireland versus Scotland in various geographic areas and have 3 testees with credible evidence to the chiefly line.  Our goal is simply to learn more about MacLeans from all over the world and ideally to help connect cousins and prove out important lines (even NPE lines) of MacLeans. Everyone who is a MacLean of any spelling is welcome.

Do you have the surname MacLean or are you related through a maternal line?  The reason I ask is that the MacLean DNA project over at family tree dna now has several tests from this era in Uist... one who did go to Australia or New Zealand I think.  If you have the surname MacLean, I encourage you to write to macleandnaproject at gmail.com and find out more about the project.

Bagpipe, yes it would be a Y DNA test.  We have several to match with in the Kintyre area as well as on mull.  Including a few with credible evidence of relation to chiefs.  Yes, you don't know if the male line is unbroken until you test but it's possible.  And even if it IS broken, sometimes people find out other things, interesting things, that happened with one of their ancestors.  We have many broken lines but everyone is still a MacLean and still part of the project.   

Finding out someone is actually a McDonald or Campbell from WAY back is actually fascinating given the knowledge we have of ancient clan history.  We can definitely see clustering to find who is originally Irish versus Scottish and see clusters within Ireland and various areas of Scotland.  Only the Big Y test is worth taking, the other ones give false matches.   I hope you consider testing because we REALLY want MacLeans from Scotland to test so that we can learn more!

Hello, I just found this forum and joined simply because I wanted to find out if you have tested your family lines New Zealand to Coll with the Clan MacLean DNA Project at familytreedna . com .  It requires a male MacLean of your line to prove the line.  We do have many members from New Zealand and one in particular comes to mind.  His line goes back to Coll and he has a maternal connection to the clan chiefs through the Lochbuie line (I think).  if you are interested, you should reply to us, depending what you already know about your line, we can suggest a few testing options for you which might save you some money.