Does it matter? by M.O'Neill

Does it matter if the O’Neill’s of Puerto Rico match their y-dna with any other O’Neill in Ireland, Australia, or the United States?  To me personally it does not matter at all and it doesn’t make any difference, since the O’Neill’s of Puerto Rico are likely not to match anyone at all, or even the O’Neill’s of the Fews and the Clannabuidhe O’Neill’s. If an O’Neill those match us outside the Island of Puerto Rico? It will be interesting, but, in my opinion, matching a person with that McLachlan or McLaughlin surname would be of a greater importance, since they are the closest kindred of the O’Neill’s.There are McLaughlin’s who are of the SNP U106 and have not tested for the SNP L48, although their haplotype doesn’t match ours. 

The O’Neill’s of Puerto Rico are unique and from an ancient Germanic tribal origin. The most important things are one is to find a different progenitor, or a common one, among the various O’Neill families in Puerto Rico. Second finding the O’Neill’s Germanic tribal origins of our ancestors is important all points to an East Germanic origin.The East Germanic tribes were a wave of migrants who may have moved from Scandinavia into the area between theOder and Vistula rivers between the years 600 and 300 BC. Some theories have the East Germanic tribes, related to the North Germanic tribes.

Looking at those matches with a -20 and – 18 genetic distances within the SNP L48, and then those that have the value of 21 on the marker DYS YCA II b the regions of those matches are in Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Sweden.I highly doubt although not impossible that our O’Neill’s ancestor origins is of a Germanic tribe that made their way from Central Europe all the way into Ireland. Among the possible ancient ancestorsof the O’Neill’s of Puerto Rico are the Belgae ,the Bastarnae, theBurgundians, theGoths, the Thervings, the Greuthungs, the Visigoths, the Ostrogoths, the Crimean Goths, the Gepids, the Rugians, theScirii, theVandals, the Heruli, or the Lombard.

Now I would not discard a possible Norman origin during their time and well known involvement with the O’Neill’s in Ulster. A Non Paternal Event like the marriage of a Viking, and an O’Neill daughter that has been well documented to have occurred, and have spent some time in previous blog postings on this very subject.

I estimate that there are around 100 to 150 O’Neill’s of Puerto Rico males. I also estimate that around up to 60 % of the male O’Neill’s of Puerto Rico will share the same common ancestor, and will be of the SNP L48 ,or its subclades, and the rest 40% maybe of various other SNPs.

·         Any O’Neill of Puerto Rico or in the Caribbean that is willing to take a y-dna can contact me at the theredhandking@gmail.com .