Phil, I'm glad to see that you have joined. You are in the R1b-South Irish group, nearly every name of interest appears in this group including many names not...
One way to progress is by the process of elimination. For example, with the name Kennedy I think we can eliminate any Kennedy who is R-L226 aka Irish III since...
I uploaded to our files section a preliminary analysis using data from FTDNA, SMGF, ySearch, Ancestry.com and Trinity College. It serves to illustrate methods...
... Hi Janet, I don't think we see anything either other than a very complicated problem. There is a technique for looking at the problem which should be able...
One of our project requirements is specification of the direct paternal "Most Distant Ancestor". Martha collects this info in the course of the join approval...
We have had a few results come back that looked suspicious and then asked FTDNA to reexamine. I am satisfied with the quality of the lab work and do not feel...
This is a book consisting of 5 volumes published in 2004 and based on material written circa 1650; see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leabhar_na_nGenealach It...
The most definitive pedigrees of the Corca Laidhe (CL) are the O'Driscoll and O'Coffey. Here is a summary of surname matches limited to the DNA groups where a...
Colin, I was under the impression that you feel there are no known Driscoll descendants of the chiefly line? I spotted this in the right margin of the WikiP...
I have been stuck on Corca Laidhe in SW Cork Skibbereen/Baltimore area, where I've gathered they more or less concentrated when the Eoganachta pushed them...
Results are in for kit: N17039, name: Mongan, ancestor: Martin Mongan, b. abt 1830 and d.abt 1900, Ireland. He is R1b and falls within no known subclade thus a...
http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/DNA/IRL-CORCA-LAIDHE-DNA.html The link above will take you to an alternative mailing list for our project. We...
We have one person in the project named Downing with an ancestor born in Ireland. He falls within R1b no known subclade. O'Donovan Hereditary Proprietors of...
We have two project members by the name Hamilton. One in I-L161 Isles A and the other in R1b no known clade. Their earliest known ancestors were born in the US...
Mark Jost has plotted R-L21 haplotypes of Corca Laidhe names with Irish origins I extracted from various sources. His diagrams have been uploaded to the files...
Keep your eyes open for two Australians whom we would very much like to see in our project. They are Hugh Barclay Coffey and his brother James Alexander...
Thank you Colin and all for the documents that you have on file. I am happy to see that there are a several Murrays listed in the spreadsheet and hope to see...
Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, 1905 http://tinyurl.com/7sv2df4 In an article on the O'Flynn's of Ardagh, James Burke equates the...
I made some progress on the subject and uploaded a revised file with some notes added. I was taken aback by some inconsistencies that I encountered but in...
I uploaded a revised version of the file Names_Stats.pdf surveying haplogroups containing Corca Laidhe names. It is in a folder named "analysis";. I also...
Glenn Nolen has a webpage addressing the Corca Laidhe at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nolenancestry/page12.html I recall discussing with...
Martha, As a followup to previous discussion while the age of the R-M222 haplogroup is still an open issue I do think the it is agreed that the group is...
Hi Alan, Welcome to the group! Have you seen this picture of the headstone for John Jeems Coffee? The caption says he is son of your ancestor William Joel...
Came across this old note from a correspondent: "One of Corcas daughters married a Pict kings son. So Picts Vikings , Irish all mixed up." Anyone know the...
We are off to a good start in terms of talented people pitching in to help. Co-Admin Jane Crawford is an avid researcher of the Corca Laidhe, being descended...
The primary source on the genealogy of the Corca Laidhe is "Miscellany of the Celtic Society" by John O'Donovan published in 1849. A list of names has been...
