The Cryan- Crean Surname Project
My first surname project was for the Kilcoyne family. I am several years into this research and have nearly 100 men tested to include the variant Coyne. 57 of these men are Kilcoynes. Like the Kilcoynes. the Cryans is a relatively rare surname. I have discovered some incredible things like how each connect to each other and their ancient migrations into Ireland. My goal is duplicate the success of the Kilcoyne project for the Cryans that will overlap with other surnames like Crehan and Crean. I am at the stage with the Kilcoynes that if a man tests from anywhere in the world, I can easily place his family in the west of Ireland often times into a specific parish. This is done with a male only Y-DNA test that only looks at the male inherited Y chromosome. Below is a map of Kilcoyne families, the pins represent paternally unrelated branches based on the earliest known locations of descendants who have tested. There are ten groups here but four of these make of the bulk of the ...