The Cameron family history researchers are a wonderful community and many of you are already plugged in. The “Join” button on these pages takes you directly to FTDNA where you can either begin the process of purchasing and submitting a new kit, or for those who may already have DNA test data in FTDNA’s system, [...]
[this article is reproduced from the Clan Cameron Ontario Piper, 2010, Vol 33, No. 1, p.5] Clan Cameron DNA Project Clan Cameron Online has recently updated the format and content of their DNA testing project to make it easier to understand and find others with similar DNA profiles. Briefly, a DNA analysis takes DNA samples [...]
As of November, 2010, the Project has grown to 132 members About 70% of the members testing for Y-DNA information have haplotypes branching off from R1b1 A few have “I” haplotypes and a few have “J” haplotypes
The Beatty-Byrnes Cluster is also known as the BBC or Irish Sea Cluster. The Byrnes family is linked to the Laigin chieftains who governed in Leinster Ireland and are thought to be descendants of an early Celtic people. Perhaps the best known of the Lagin or Leinster chieftains were the MacMurroughs. Dermot MacMurrough was the [...]
John Hilliard Cameron was baptised 17 Aug 1845 in Buckingham, Quebec and married Mary Brimer in 1871 in Ottawa. Researchers knew that John Hilliard’s parents were John Cameron and Mary McMillan who had emigrated to Canada from Scotland, and that the couple had relatives in Buckingham in the 1880-90s, but not much else. Digging into [...]
