There currently seem to be several male Y lines using the Liston surname. 

This site is setup to research the more distance relationships in these families as opposed to the shorter term being investigated in the other Liston project.

The Alliston are a family found mainly in East Anglia, names associated with them are Elliston and Alston.

The Liston family were originally found in Scotland and East Anglia and the Liston variant still exists in Scotland although it seems to have disappeared in the 1400's from Essex when the Alliston variant became more widely used.  

Liston itself is a manor just outside Sudbury in East Anglia, it is was associated with the right to provide wafers for the Kings coronation

The Scottish Listons and Essex Allistons seem to share a common male ancestor from about 1100  AD  and are U152.

The Liston family in Ireland have records dating back to the 1600's. They seem to be related to the Windley family from Derbyshire/Nottingham ( U106 project )

The Scottish line seems to have a common male ancestor with the Alliston family about 900 years ago which coincides with when Godfrey The Chamberlain is recorded as the deceased husband of Avicia De Liston in Essex 1185 and also as a witness to a charter by Malcolm IV in Scotland in the 1170s.  The East Anglian family are just about traceable from this time as they held an inherited Grand Serjeancy associated with Liston manor.