Recruitment to the Project (May 2019)

The O'Malley DNA Project currently boasts a total membership of 125 people. These members have done a variety of different DNA tests as follows:

• 71 have done a Y-DNA test (for tracing the father's father's father's line) 

• of these, 67 have done the Y-DNA-37 test (i.e. 37 STR markers) 

• 44 have done Y-DNA-67 

• 29 have done Y-DNA-111 

• 31 have done a mitochondrial DNA test (i.e. mtDNA, for tracing the mother's mother's mother's line) 

• 56 have done a Family Finder test (i.e. autosomal DNA, useful for connecting to cousins on any ancestral line) 

• 54 have done either FF or mtDNA but not Y-DNA (adding these numbers to the numbers who did a Y-DNA test gives the project total of 125)

• 24 have done the Big Y test (the ultimate Y-DNA test - it helps identify your exact placement on the Tree of Mankind)

Further information on the tests that members have taken can be seen on the Project Statistics page.

Below is a graph showing recruitment to the O'Malley DNA Project since its inception in 2005. Recruitment has been very steady over the years but there was a noticeable jump in the recruitment rate following the last O'Malley Clan Rally in 2017. Prior to this the recruitment rate was 4.6 members per year whereas afterwards it increased to 35.5 members per year.

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Because the timeline (X-axis) on the above graph is not linear, a more accurate representation of the recruitment rate can be seen in the graph below.

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So the project is progressing well and we may see a further jump in recruitment following the upcoming Clan Rally in June 2019 (21st-23rd).

Maurice Gleeson

May 2019