Family Tree DNA

We have recently celebrated the 94th birthday of my father, William J. Murray, who was born in Glasgow Scotland in the Mary Hill district of Kelvin Grove. Sadly at the same time after a serious fall necessitating X-Rays and CAT scan, serious lung damage was diagnosed. After much discussion and liaison with Murray family members from various countries he has decided to participate in the Murray family DNA project accessed via the Family Tree DNA website www.familytreedna.com .

Other male Murrays with ancestors from the Borders district have already participated, and I will expand on this further in discussion links hereunder. The process isn't at all difficult apart from the scraping of inside of the cheek episodes (3) in total, which are a wee bit annoying for an elderly participant. The company will send you a kit (Dad's pack arrived within a week from the USA to Australia), and the 3 samples are collected over a period of time with 3-4 hour intervals in order to ensure at least one viable sample.

William Murray is the only son of John William Murray 1881-1951 of Sydney Australia previously Glasgow and Selkirk Scotland, he is the grand son of William Murray born 1855 in Selkirk died 1930's Glasgow, son of John Murray 1823-1864 born and died in Selkirk son of James Murray born 1798 in Selkirk died 1854 in Selkirk.

By ordering the DNA kit within the Murray family web site on the above site a discount is guaranteed and importantly, by request the site will link you to everyone who has the same common ancestor as the person submitting the sample in future (Males only!) The site notifies you if you are matched with any other donor. This is an enormous leap forward for ancestor research and I shall elaborate further as to why I believe this to be so, in my next post!