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Group Administrator: Amy Hutton McWhirterdna@aol.com
Project Surnames:| MacWh*rter | McQuarter | McQuirter | McWherter | | McWhirter | McWhorter | MeWhirter |
Project Background: From what we know, the McWhirter name mean "Son of the King's Harpist." The earliest McWhirters probably originated in Ayrshire, Scotland, or Edinburgh. Some of them stayed in Scotland, some moved to North Ireland, in Armagh and Derry Counties primarily. Others came from Ireland to USA, while another large group came directly from Scotland to Canada, Australia, and all over the world.
Variants of the name are McWhorter, McWherter, McQuarter, McQuirter, McGruder, MacWhirter, McCarter, etc. | Family Tree DNA - Genealogy by Genetics, Ltd.
World Headquarters
1445 North Loop West, Suite 820 Houston, Texas 77008, USA
Phone: (713) 868-1438 | Fax: (832) 201-7147
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Project Background, Goals, Results and News are copyright of the specific Surname Project Project Goals: Our goals are to determine if all the branches have a common ancestor, and by making relationship matches through DNA, to be able to complete family lineages through paper trails of matching DNA participants.
| Family Tree DNA - Genealogy by Genetics, Ltd.
World Headquarters
1445 North Loop West, Suite 820 Houston, Texas 77008, USA
Phone: (713) 868-1438 | Fax: (832) 201-7147
Contact Us
All Contents Copyright 2001-2004 Genealogy by Genetics, Ltd.
Project Background, Goals, Results and News are copyright of the specific Surname Project Project News: Please join us in our search for our deep roots. I have never met a McWh*rter who wasn't proud of the name, and didn't know something about the history.
Please help this exciting project by locating males with the surname in your lineage to be tested. If you area a female, you migh want to pay for a male in your line to be tested. Not everyone with the surname will be devoted genealogists. So please join us! | Family Tree DNA - Genealogy by Genetics, Ltd.
World Headquarters
1445 North Loop West, Suite 820 Houston, Texas 77008, USA
Phone: (713) 868-1438 | Fax: (832) 201-7147
Contact Us
All Contents Copyright 2001-2004 Genealogy by Genetics, Ltd.
Project Background, Goals, Results and News are copyright of the specific Surname Project Project Results: So far we have found that there seem to be two groupings. One group traces directly back to Scotland, and belongs to the haplogroup I. The other grouping traces back to Ireland and other back to Scotland, and belongs to the haplogroup R1b.
We have confirmed the relationship of the Haplogoup I participants, but the R1b participants will need to test more markers (25 or 37) to make more accurate matches.
More participants are needed, in particular McWh*rters from the USA. | Family Tree DNA - Genealogy by Genetics, Ltd.
World Headquarters
1445 North Loop West, Suite 820 Houston, Texas 77008, USA
Phone: (713) 868-1438 | Fax: (832) 201-7147
Contact Us
All Contents Copyright 2001-2004 Genealogy by Genetics, Ltd.
Project Background, Goals, Results and News are copyright of the specific Surname Project Family Tree DNA - Genealogy by Genetics, Ltd.
World Headquarters
1445 North Loop West, Suite 820 Houston, Texas 77008, USA
Phone: (713) 868-1438 | Fax: (832) 201-7147
Contact Us
All Contents Copyright 2001-2004 Genealogy by Genetics, Ltd.
Project Background, Goals, Results and News are copyright of the specific Surname Project Family Tree DNA - Genealogy by Genetics, Ltd.
World Headquarters
1445 North Loop West, Suite 820 Houston, Texas 77008, USA
Phone: (713) 868-1438 | Fax: (832) 201-7147
Contact Us
All Contents Copyright 2001-2004 Genealogy by Genetics, Ltd.
Project Background, Goals, Results and News are copyright of the specific Surname Project |
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