Genetic Genealogy

This collection will hold test results, paternal branches, match analysis and genetic observations. DNA evidence will be presented at the level it actually supports; medieval pedigree, surname and geographic claims will not be inferred from haplogroup placement alone.

Editorial language: unresolved patterns may be presented as an “observed phenomenon, an undefined hypothesis.”

Documented participation and personal testing

The surviving records separate participation in Quinn genetic genealogy from the date of personal testing. They should not be treated as the same event.

6 June 2003 — FTDNA TesterEarly Quinn DNA context: kit 9830, recorded as I-M223 in the later World Families material.

21 May 2004 — FTDNA TesterKit 21339, recorded as R-P312. The surviving World Families entry carries T. Allen Quinn's then-current worldnet.att.net contact address, documenting his handling of Quinn DNA information years before his own FTDNA test.

3 May 2009 — Personal FTDNA testing beginsY-DNA67 and mtDNA Plus ordered. The kit was received 18 May 2009; both tests were completed during 2009.

23 January 2021 — Autosomal transfer to FTDNAFree Autosomal DNA Transfer ordered. The transferred autosomal data was later unlocked in November 2021.

Y-DNA record

The V2 genetic record preserves the paternal testing path locally rather than sending the reader back to the legacy QuinnGenealogy.org site. The Quinn DNA Surname Project capture records Allen Quinn and sons Ian, Dylan and Zachary together under R-FT303674, within the broader R-FGC11134 research branch. The Irish Origenes case study is retained separately as a commercial interpretation of the genetic evidence.

Quinn DNA Surname Project — local captureProject results and testing context, including the R-FGC11134 branch and the R-FT303674 family kits.

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Irish Origenes — Quinn DNA Case StudyCommercial genetic-genealogy analysis retained as an interpretive source, distinct from the underlying test results.

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Autosomal research record

Autosomal observations are preserved as a separate evidence stream from paternal Y-DNA. The Darby Quin and Mary Ashworth compilation records the Nash and O’Riordan observations used in the historical research path; those observations do not by themselves establish the proposed medieval or colonial pedigree.

DNA Study — Darby Quin & Mary Ashworth QuinLocal copy of the compiled DNA research previously linked from the legacy site.

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Book of Clues — genetic and historical researchCompiled research context retained separately from primary records and test results.

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Research chronology

This chronology preserves a critical distinction: involvement with Quinn DNA data is documented by 2004, while personal FTDNA testing began in 2009. The genetic-genealogy work therefore did not begin as a consequence of the 2009 personal test.

Observed surname and geographic signals

DNA Research

Three distinct evidence systems.

These pages preserve T. Allen Quinn’s DNA research. Each begins by explaining what that form of DNA can establish and its limitations, then presents the project-specific evidence.

atDNA — autosomal evidence and matches

yDNA — direct paternal-line evidence

mtDNA — direct maternal-line evidence