Barry
McCain is an independent scholar, writer and genetic genealogy
consultant living in Oxford, Mississippi. He has a BA with honours
from Ole Miss in history. He is the Director of the McCain DNA
Project, and a Co-Director with the Ulster Heritage DNA Project and
Irish Heritage DNA Project.
His research has located several high profile families: the MacKean
clans of Glencoe and Ardnamurchan, and the O'Kane family of Dungiven,
to mention a few. One of the goals of his work is to reunite Irish
and Scottish families in the Diaspora with their kinsmen still in
Ireland and the UK and to help families without paper records
recover their family's history. He is a Gaelic speaker and frequent
traveller to the Ireland and Britain. He presented the story of the
successful McCain DNA Project at the 2006 Ulster American History
Symposium, in Knoxville TN.
He was born in Hinds County, Mississippi and spent his growing years
in north Louisiana. His family left County Antrim, Ireland, for the
Colonies in 1718. He has spent much of his life exploring the world
of his Gaelic ancestors.
Mr. McCain is available as a genetic genealogy consultant for
families of Irish and Scottish ancestry and he specialises in Ulster
and Argyle research. He also is available for speaking engagements
on the topics relating to Ulster, Ulster American history, and
genetic genealogy research and for seminars of Irish and Scottish
genetic genealogy.
He can be reached at:
P.O. Box 884
Oxford, MS 38655
USA
Barry
McCain is an independent scholar, writer and genetic genealogy
consultant living in Oxford, Mississippi. He has a BA with honours
from Ole Miss in history. He is the Director of the McCain DNA
Project, and a Co-Director with the Ulster Heritage DNA Project and
Irish Heritage DNA Project.