South Half of Ireland DNA: a geographic project, sorted by Irish county origin, for autosomal "Family Finder" and mitochondrial mtDNA test-takers; as well as Y-DNA. All interested in Irish genetic genealogy are Welcome; not just men with Y tests. Autosomal DNA Transfer into FTDNA is available and encouraged for those who have DNA tested elsewhere. https://www.familytreedna.com/autosomal-transfer We especially support and encourage women with autosomal and mitochondrial DNA tests, which we'll address in a separate spreadsheet, our companion Facebook group, 'South Half of Ireland DNA', and a Gedmatch project. Our focus is using the genetic genealogy and history of the whole roughly southern half of Ireland, in which a pattern of about 20 unrelated ancestral DNA lineages cluster roughly geographically, to understand our forebears. Which line is your ancestors' lineage, and what is your ancestral line's history and geography? Where are we from? The South Half of Ireland comprises the old civil and ecclesiastical (church) province of Munster, as well as far southern Connacht County Galway and southern province Leinster; which for our purposes include counties Offaly, Kildare, and Dublin south of the Liffey, as well as counties Carlow, Kilkenny, Laois, Wexford and Wicklow. The South Half of Ireland was traditionally known as Leath Moga and recognized in the year 1111 as a geographic entity centered in Cashel Tipperary at the ecclesiastical Synod of Ráth Breasail. The province of Munster has 6 counties: Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford. If you have ancestry, or suspect you have ancestry, from the South Half of Ireland and have DNA tested, will be testing, or have transferred a copy of your aDNA data file to FamilyTreeDNA from Ancestry.com or 23andme.com, please consider joining this geographical DNA project. Did your ancestor leave Ireland? No longer is "Born in Ireland" a barrier to discovering more about where your ancestor(s) came from within Ireland. DNA testing helps to refine ancestral location, sometimes very precisely, depending on how well DNA represented the location. Testers may observe this patterning within their people matching. According to a statement made in 2016 by Bennett Greenspan, Founding President of FamilyTreeDNA, DNA testing in Ireland has reached critical mass. This means someone with Irish heritage, regardless of where they are located in the world, who takes a DNA test, has a greater chance of discovering more about their ancestry. This project was created to serve as a resource to help Irish genealogy researchers narrow down their DNA test-takers matching to a specific region of Ireland. Ultimately, by joining this project, testers may be able to further refine their people matching to specific counties by detecting patterns of county clustering of matches. Membership consists of individuals who can document one or more of their ancestors as residing in the South Half of Ireland; having pedigree roots in or before the Famine period of 1845-1852, and for people who have strong DNA people matching indicating a high probability of ancestry from the region. We encourage members to contact their matches and collaborate. In the event of autosomal DNA transfer kits, a transfer must be completed and fully enabled (the $9-$19 unlock fee must be paid on the kit). ---------- We also encourage members to join FTDNA and Facebook projects Irish surname, clan, locational, YDNA and mtDNA projects. Links are added in the "Links" section as a convenience for our members, and to show our support for other projects.