Out of Africa- Hingerty Origins

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 Where do we come from? 

One way to answer this question is to have a male on the direct line of interest take a YDNA test.



YDNA has been passed down directly from father to son all the way back to "Adam". 

YDNA markers stay very constant across time, rarely mutating. The mutations, when they do occur, mark a branching along the tree of all mankind. 

When a male takes a YDNA test they receive two sets of results:

1. Their Haplogroup.

The Haplogroup for Hingerty males is R-M269 which is the dominant haplogroup for western Europe. It is thought to have mutated to its present form 4-10,000 years ago.  85.4% of males in Ireland belong to this haplogroup as do 92.3% of Welsh males and 87.1% of Basque males.


Wikipedia Haplogroup Map

This branch of humans travelled out of Africa to central Asia and then headed west across Europe as shown in the map at the top of this post.  

So, now we know where Hingertys came from..... out of Africa to central Asia and west across Europe to Ireland.......and that our YDNA was established in Ireland before the later invasions. Hingerty YDNA is native Irish, or Gael- not of later Scottish or English heritage.

The other set of results a tester receives from a YDNA test is:

2. A list of males who match them and therefore would share common ancestors.

The match list can assist us to find the answer to the question "Are all Hingertys related?"

To date results are available for two male Hingertys who have taken YDNA tests at FTDNA.

One is a Staffordshire Hingerty and the other is an Australian Hingerty. They match each other.

Thus we can say that 

the Hingertys of Stafford and 

the Hingertys of Australia 

are related and 

share a common male ancestor.

As more Hingerty males on the various family lines take a YDNA test at FTDNA, we will be able to draw more conclusions about the relationships between the various lines.

If you are a Hingerty male, please consider taking a YDNA test and joining the Hingerty FTDNA YDNA Project YDNA Project . 

For more general information about YDNA testing see the article YDNA

Contact me if you would like more information about how YDNA testing will assist us to make the connections between all Hingertys.

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