Reading the genetic survey of the O'Neills. For those who don't know, there was DNA testing of men with surnames associated (1/?)
with Niall Noigiallach. The Northern O'Neills seem to have two separate lines, one of which is "unrelated" to the Y-haplotype (2/?)
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that is assoc with Niall. However, this doesn't mean these ppl aren't descended from him or that the family is unrelated (3/?)
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in that this does not accout for matrilineal relations (4/?)
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so while yes, many men who claim descent from this one individual are not necessarily descended from him but as far as I am aware (5/?)
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we have yet to consider the women in the population which certainly would round out our understanding (6/?)
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plus it's hardly a survey of everyone. a sample size is only so accurate. (6/?)
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and there's nothing saying that your man (MRCA in the study) is even Niall. We are making an assumption based on the time period (7/?)
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and that Niall was a real person. Look y'all, we don't even know when he lived, IF EVER, or how many kids he had (8/?)
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