Family Tree DNA announced a special on DNA tests. This reduced price special is valid from 26 November through 31 December for kits ordered and paid for by then. Since today is 27 December, your opportunity to take advantage of this offer is just about gone.

So, if you have been considering doing the DNA test, but were looking for lower prices, now is the time to do it. I cannot announce the price on a RootsWeb list, so contact me at bobmclaren(at)earthlink.net for price information and how to order. Since there isn't much time left, you need to do this rapidly.

I am looking for males bearing the McCrory, McGrory, McRory, MacRory, or other spelling variations to join our DNA project. (McCrory, McGrory, McRory, MacRory, etc. are one of the surnames of Clan MacLaren). Right now, we are at 365 members and steadily growing. (Males because the DNA test is done on the Y-chromosome -- the male sex chromosome). Additionally, if you are a male and descend from a male who had one of the MacLaren surnames but your surname is different due to adoption or name change (or other reasons), you qualify if there is an unbroken male line back to the man who carried one of the MacLaren surnames.

NOTE: There is also a McCrory Surname DNA Project at Family Tree DNA and you can take advantage of this special through them. However, no matter whether you join the MacLaren DNA Project first, or the McCrory DNA Project first, you can join the second one after you get your DNA results -- and at no extra cost. I do recommend this.

The value of a DNA test is that if two men show identical, or almost identical, DNA results, they are related (if sufficient markers are tested). As such, it is a valuable aid to our genealogy. It is not a silver bullet in itself, but a valuable tool. The number in our project is sufficiently large enough that we are starting to get matches between tested members and in a number of cases we have established relationships that these members did not know -- and extending their genealogies back in time.

Based on my experience in administration of the Clan MacLaren DNA project, I now recommend the 67-marker test. I will accept the 37-marker test, but I find the 67-marker test much more useful and powerful.

I hope a number of you buy yourself a belated Christmas present and get tested. Or, buy a relative a test for Christmas!!

I will be happy to answer any questions about the Clan MacLaren Surname DNA Project.

Yours aye,

Bob McLaren
Chairman, Genealogy Committee, Clan MacLaren Society of North America
Genealogist, Clan MacLaren Society (based in Scotland)
Administrator, Clan MacLaren Surname DNA Project (Worldwide)
Member, Association of Professional Genealogists


Robert McLaren
bobmclaren@earthlink.net
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