One of the ways you can find long lost relatives is by using DNA. There are quite a few DNA companies out there available, but since I was already happy with Ancestry.com I stuck with them.
It's a very simple process. You order your swab packet from Ancestry.com, or one of the many other companies that are now doing this kind of service. When received you swab the inside of someone's cheek. Depending on who you are interested searching dictates who's cheek gets swabbed. In my case, I was tracking my father's side, so I swabbed the inside of my brothers cheek. If I was tracking my mother's I would have swabbed mine.
What Ancestry.com was able to determine was amazing. They came back with a list of 250 names of possible connections. Of course most of them were so many generations back they were not useful, but I did get quite a few that were within three to five generations. For this site I am focusing on the five that were within three generations. I am going to list them here in the hopes that someone sees the connection to my Duggans.
Since my brother's DNA tracks the father's line it goes like this:
my brother (Alfred Duggan III)
my father (Alfred Duggan Jr.)
my grandfather (Alfred Duggan Sr.)
my great grandfather (Matthew Duggan)
my great great grandfather (Hamilton Duggan)
The five names that could have a relationship with above are:
Jerome Dale Gallagher
Hugh Murphy Jr.
John Christopher McManus
Thomas Dominic McGuire
Harold Lee Smith
More information can be found on my "Duggan Dec 2010" family tree on Ancestry.com or you can e-mail be at rduggan52@gmail.com
It's a very simple process. You order your swab packet from Ancestry.com, or one of the many other companies that are now doing this kind of service. When received you swab the inside of someone's cheek. Depending on who you are interested searching dictates who's cheek gets swabbed. In my case, I was tracking my father's side, so I swabbed the inside of my brothers cheek. If I was tracking my mother's I would have swabbed mine.
What Ancestry.com was able to determine was amazing. They came back with a list of 250 names of possible connections. Of course most of them were so many generations back they were not useful, but I did get quite a few that were within three to five generations. For this site I am focusing on the five that were within three generations. I am going to list them here in the hopes that someone sees the connection to my Duggans.
Since my brother's DNA tracks the father's line it goes like this:
my brother (Alfred Duggan III)
my father (Alfred Duggan Jr.)
my grandfather (Alfred Duggan Sr.)
my great grandfather (Matthew Duggan)
my great great grandfather (Hamilton Duggan)
The five names that could have a relationship with above are:
Jerome Dale Gallagher
Hugh Murphy Jr.
John Christopher McManus
Thomas Dominic McGuire
Harold Lee Smith
More information can be found on my "Duggan Dec 2010" family tree on Ancestry.com or you can e-mail be at rduggan52@gmail.com
http://clickserve.cc-dt.com/link/tplclick?lid=41000000029953452&pubid=21000000000250976
DNA CONNECTIONS
