Clovis Merovingian
Prestige/VIP
Elder
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Meta-Ethnicity: Anglo-American
Ethnicity: Deep Southerner
Country: My State and my Region are my country
Region: The Deep South
Location: South Carolina
Ancestry: Gaelic (patrilineal), English, Ulster Scots/Scots Irish, Scottish, German, Swiss German, Swedish, Manx, Finnish, Norman French/Quebecois (distantly), Dutch (distantly)
Taxonomy: Borreby/Alpine/ Nordid mix
Y-DNA: R-S660/R-DF109
mtDNA: T1a1
Politics: Conservative
Religion: Christian
Hero: Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, James K. Polk
Age: 30
Philosophy: I try to find out what is true as best I can.
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Post by Clovis Merovingian on Jun 6, 2018 8:52:06 GMT
So I mentioned this in another thread but I cannot trace my direct lineage back to the old country. The trail runs cold at an ancestor who was born in 1864 in McCormick county South Carolina. My surname is a Gaelic surname in the family of surnames that have their root in the old Gaelic Mac Aodh. Mc means son of, and Aodha was a Gaelic god of fire. Anyways I have no idea if my ancestry traces back to Ireland, Highland Scotland, or the Ulster Scots. Most people in the Southern United States with an Irish sounding surname are descendants of the Ulster Scots protestants in Northern Ireland however most of them have Anglo Saxon Lowland Scots surnames like Jackson, Armstrong, or Elliot. My name sounds more like a name you'd find among the Catholic Irish but still the former fact remains. The only other clue I have to my ancestry is that my Y DNA which is passed down from father to son to grandson and so on is R-L21 which is a Celtic haplogroup. Anybody who is an expert on surnames and genetics have any idea of what is most likely for my ancestry?
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Post by Διαμονδ on Jun 6, 2018 8:54:28 GMT
It seems that you have purely Irish roots in the male line I am referring to a distant ancestor.
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