Driscoll DNA Project Family Finder aDNA Participants

The Admixture DNA Test

An admixture (or autosomal) DNA test examines your autosomal DNA, across your 22 pairs of non-sex chromosomes. All of your ancestral lines are represented in the admixture test, not just the direct matrilineal line (mtDNA test) or direct patrilineal line in males (Y-DNA test).

Tutorial on autosomal DNA (University of Utah)

Among your matches in an admixture DNA test are genetic cousins with relatively recent shared ancestry. The family history data provided by your matches may give you clues to the geographic origins of your ancestors. The Family Finder (FF) test offered by FTDNA is the appropriate DNA test to take if you want to discover others sharing relatively recent common ancestry across all your ancestral lines and you are looking for clues on your ancestral origins. FF test takers with Driscolls in any direct line of their documented ancestry are encouraged to join the Driscoll aDNA project and contribute any available information on the geographic origins of their Driscoll ancestors.

Like the other major families of southwest Cork, the Driscolls split into several branches, adopting other surnames. Even as recently as 1880, records exist that show a family using the Driscoll name on one type of record and an alternate name on another type of record, or even registering two different children using two different family names. Cadogan, Finn, Whooly, and Minihane are among the other surnames of interest. If you have taken a Family Finder test and have documented ancestry that you are willing to share for this project please join!

More about the admixture DNA test...

If you have sufficient data, you may be able to develop a Y-DNA proxy for a line that has "daughtered out." See Daughters.

O'Driscoll Origins and Territory

The Ui Etersceoil people were established well over a thousand years ago in an area roughly coterminus with the Carbery baronies in County Cork, Ireland. This area extended from around Courtmacsherry and Bandon, south to Mizen Head, and to the border of County Kerry. By about the 16th century, after many centuries of warfare with other clans, the O'Driscolls ended up largely confined to the territories of Collybeg, Collymore, and Barrahane, situated between Castlehaven and Roaringwater Bay.

More about O'Driscoll origins...

Map of Family Finder Driscoll Project Participant Origins

Table of Family Finder Driscoll Project Participant Origins
sorted by kit number

See also: Driscoll A-DNA Shared CentiMorgans Table

FFinder Test Date	Earliest Known Ancestor			Relationship to Test Taker	Kit Number & Details	FF Matches *
	Name	Birth/Christening	Origin
2013-Feb-22	Eleanor Driscoll	b. 1802	Ireland	gg-grandparent	84509	190013 254545
2010-Jun-30	Benjamin McDonald McDaniel	b.c. 1768	Caroline County, VA	ggg-grandparent?	103208
2010-Aug-06	Patrick Henry Driscoll	1862	Lemont, IL, USA	gg-grandparent	112483	248003 263424
2011-Feb-16	Michael Minihan	early 1800's	Killeenagarriff, Limerick, Ireland	g-grandparent	139712
2012-May-21	Mary Driscoll Cornelius Minihane	early 1800's	Skibbereen, Cork, Ireland		157403	254545
2011-Feb-28	Florence O'Driscoll	late 1700's/early 1800's	Coolbane, Caheragh, Cork, Ireland	ggg-grandparent	190012	254545
2011-Feb-22	Michael Driscoll	1840's	Skibbereen Town, Cork, Ireland	g-grandparent	190013	84509 202930 212841 264348
2012-Jun-06	Michael Driscoll	1840's	Skibbereen Town, Cork, Ireland	gg-grandparent?	202930	190013 264348
2011-Feb-16	Cornelius Driscoll	late 1700's/early 1800's	probably Bantry, Cork, Ireland	ggg-grandparent?	204884
2011-Aug-11	Denis Cornelius Driscoll	7-Aug-1818	Wareham, MA or Baltimore, MD, USA	ggg-grandparent	210060
2011-Aug-16	Cornelius O'Driscoll	1857	Ashtabula, OH, USA	g-grandparent	211871	212841
2011-Sep-29					212841	190013 202930 211871
2012-Feb-10	James Owen Driscoll	1842	Kentville, Kings County, Nova Scotia, CA	g-grandparent	221689	264630
2012-May-02	John O'Driscoll	mid-1800's	Tors Cove, Newfoundland, CA	g-grandparent?	231635
2012-May-06	John Driscoll	1820s/30s?	Rineen, Castlehaven, Cork, Ireland	gg-grandparent	233326	263424 263538
2013-Feb-22	Mary Driscoll	b. ~ 1820	Ireland	gg-grandparent	248003	112483 263424 264630 263538
2012-Oct-23	Barry				254545	84509 157403 190012
2012-Oct-23	John Driscoll	b. 1810 d. 1864			255885	255886
2012-Dec-04	John Driscoll	b. 1810 d. 1864			255886	255885
2013-Feb-22	Mary Driscoll	b. ~ 1820	Ireland	gg-grandparent	263424	112483 233326 248003 263538 264630
2012-Feb-22	Mary Driscoll	b. ~ 1820	Ireland	ggg-grandparent	263538	233326 248003 263424
2013-Mar-14	Dan Driscoll	late 1700's/early 1800's	likely southwest Cork, Ireland	gg-grandparent	264348	N73108 190013 202930
2012-Feb-22	James Driscoll	b. 1804 d. 1894	Ireland		264630	221689 248003
(pending)	Michael Driscoll	b. 1800's	b. Cork, Ireland	ggg-grandparent	272291
2012-Jul-19	Patrick McDonough	b. 1825	Ireland	gg-grandparent	B2971
2010-May-21	Dan Driscoll	late 1700's/early 1800's	likely southwest Cork, Ireland	ggg-grandparent	N73108	264348

* - When people share a common geographic ancestral origin, they may potentially match through Family Finder in numerous ways, and the matching relationship may not necessarily be through a Driscoll line.