Fitzgerald family history

Earls of Desmond
(Note: There are at least three sequences for numbering the Earls of Desmond. The differences depend on whether to count Nicholas as the 3rd Earl, and whether to count John as the 13th Earl.)
http://members.aol.com/desmondearls/earlbio.htm (Earls 1-16, include Nicholas, skip John)
http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/FITZGERALD2.htm (Earls 1-16, skip Nicholas, include John)
http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/cgi-bin/gedlkup/n=royal?royal09140 (Earls 1-15, skip Nicholas and John)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_of_Desmond (Preston, Earl of Desmond)
http://www.thepeerage.com/p2285.htm#i22848 (Feilding, Earls of Desmond)
http://www.grailwerk.com/docs/gearoid.htm (legend of the Earl of Desmond {1338-1398})
http://www.jbending.demon.co.uk/ancestor.htm (origins of the Fitzgeralds {pt.1})
http://www.jbending.demon.co.uk/ancesto2.htm (origins of the Fitzgeralds {pt.2})
XXXhttp://members.aol.com/lochlan2/burkes.htm (history of the Fitzgeralds in Ireland {at bottom} [O'Mulconry, 1600's])

Other Fitzgeralds
http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/FITZGERALD1.htm (Earls of Kildare)
http://www.ccma.ca/~mbone/webtree/elliott/kerry-knights.htm (Knights of Kerry)
http://www.celticcastles.com/castles/glin/history.htm (Knights of Glin)
http://www.waterfordcountylibrary.ie/library/categories/localstudies/article41/v13fitzgeralds.pdf (Fitzgeralds of Farnane {pt. 1} [PDF])
http://www.waterfordcountylibrary.ie/library/categories/localstudies/article41/v14fitzgeraldsopt.pdf (Fitzgeralds of Farnane {pt. 2} [PDF])
http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/conquest_ireland.pdf ("The Conquest of Ireland" [Giraldus Cambrensis, 1200's] [PDF])
http://www.fitzmaurice.info/ances.html (origins of Fitzmaurice family)
http://fitzmaurice101.tripod.com/id1.html (descent of Fitzmaurice family)

Irish History

General
http://members.tripod.com/~JerryDesmond/index-2.html (a concise history of Ireland)
http://www.multilingualbooks.com/onlinedicts-gaelic.html (Gaelic dictionaries)

Mythological
http://www.magoo.com/hugh/pre-milesian.html (Firbolg & Danann {pre-Milesian} genealogies)
http://clanmaclochlainn.com/legends.htm (Scythian {pre-Milesian} genealogies)
http://clanmaclochlainn.com/mlegend.htm (detailed analysis of the Scythian genealogies)
http://www.rootsweb.com/~fianna/history/milesian.html (Milesian {pre-Gaelic}genealogies [John O'Hart, 1892])
http://clanmaclochlainn.com/keating.htm (Gaelic genealogies [Geoffrey Keating, 1700's])
http://celt.ucc.ie/publishd.html ("Annals of the Four Masters" and other texts)

Manuscripts
http://www.ucc.ie/celt/online/G105005.html (Laud 610 [1100])
http://www.ucc.ie/celt/online/G105003.html (Rawlinson B502 [1130])
hhttp://clanmaclochlainn.com/lebor.htm ("Book of the Taking of Ireland" {"Lebor Gabala Erren"} [1150])
http://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/cert.html ("Book of Rights" {"Leabhar na gCeart"} [1150])
http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100013.html (Mac Carthaigh's Book [1437])
http://clanmaclochlainn.com/ocleryms.htm (O'Cleary Book of Genealogies)
http://clanmaclochlainn.com/odugan.htm (O'Dugan Topographical Poems)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leabhar_na_nGenealach (MacFirbis's "Great Book of Irish Genealogies") [manuscript] [published]
http://www.iol.ie/~kevnilse/eoghantx.html ("Book of Munster" {"An Leabhar Muimhneach"} [1703 translation])

Clans
http://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/cairney/index.htm (Clans and Families of Ireland and Scotland [1989])
http://www.doyle.com.au/chiefs.html (Gaelic chief information written in 1970 and somewhat out of date)
http://homepage.eircom.net/~seanjmurphy/chiefs/index.htm (interesting site debunking some modern Gaelic chief claims)
http://www.ucc.ie/chronicon/ocorr.htm (scholarly lecture on early Irish genealogies)
http://www.livius.org/am-ao/ambiorix/ambiorix.html (Belgae tribes vs. Caesar)
http://www.ucc.ie:8080/cocoon/doi/atlas (Atlas of Family Names in Ireland)
http://www.ancestryireland.com/database.php?filename=db_mathesons (Matheson's "Irish Surnames" database)
http://www.rootsweb.com/~irish/igsi_published/matheson.htm (Matheson's 100 most common Irish surnames)
http://www.libraryireland.com/Pedigrees1/index.php (O'Hart's pedigrees)

Munster
http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlkik/ihm/munster.htm (early history of Munster)
http://mccarthy.montana.com/Articles/EarlyYears.html (scholarly article on founding of MacCarthy kingdom {1118-1138})
http://mccarthy.montana.com/Articles/BeforeNorman.html (scholarly article on pre-Norman Munster {1138-1177})
http://www.araltas.com/features/mccarthy (MacCarthy genealogy [John O'Hart, 1892])
http://www.pcug.org.au/~ronwells/410-9.htm (a shorter MacCarthy genealogy)
http://mccarthy.montana.com/Articles/TheLastKing4.html (list of MacCarthy Kings of Desmond)
http://www.users.qwest.net/~mhdonohue/Eoghanacht.html (O'Donoghue history)
http://www.tommahony.com/genealogy (Mahoney history)
http://mccarthy.montana.com/Articles/KerryHistoryNotes.html (County Kerry history)

Genetics

General DNA Information
http://blairgenealogy.com/dna/dna101.html (beginner DNA info)
http://www.contexo.info/DNA_Basics/Links.htm (intermediate DNA info)
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~allpoms/genetics.html (intro to genetic genealogy {out-of-date})
http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/~mcdonald/WorldHaplogroupsMaps.pdf (Y-DNA and mtDNA world distributions [PDF])
http://www.jogg.info (Journal of Genetic Genealogy)
http://www.isogg.org/famousdna.htm ("Famous" DNA)
http://www.dna-forums.org (DNA Forums)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DNA-NEWBIE/messages (Yahoo DNA-NEWBIE)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DNA-ANTHROGENEALOGY/messages (Yahoo DNA-ANTHRO)
http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/DNA/GENEALOGY-DNA.html (Rootsweb DNA mailing list)

mtDNA Information
http://worldfamilies.net/mtDNA.htm (mitochondrial DNA haplogroups)
http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~macaulay/images/skeleton07-08-02.jpg (mtDNA overview chart)
http://www.ftdna.com/pdf/Palani_2004.pdf (mtDNA detailed trees [PDF])
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJHG/journal/issues/v68n3/002146/002146.tb3.html (mtDNA European percentages)
http://www.greekdnaproject.net/mtDNA.html (mtDNA European timeline)
http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/%7Evincent/papers/richards_2000.pdf (mtDNA European origins [PDF])
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=385092&action=stream&blobtype=pdf (mtDNA European geographic patterns [PDF])
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJHG/journal/issues/v66n1/991049/991049.web.pdf (mtDNA European geographic diversity [PDF])
http://www.utlib.ee/ekollekt/diss/mag/2004/b16664851/Serk.pdf (mtDNA haplogroup J [PDF])

Y-DNA Information
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dgarvey/DNA/markers.htm (description of Y-chromosome DNA haplogroups)
http://ycc.biosci.arizona.edu/nomenclature_system/fig1.html ("official" Y-DNA chart)
http://www.eva.mpg.de/genetics/pdf/Kayser_Knijff_AJHG2001.pdf (Worldwide Y-DNA distributions [PDF])
http://worldfamilies.net/marker2.htm (Y-DNA marker mutation rates)
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dgarvey/DNA/hg/Y_hg_quick.html (estimating European Y-DNA haplogroups)

Y-DNA R1b Haplogroup Information
http://www.kerchner.com/r1bproject/cssmarkerstats/charts.htm (R1b Atlantic Modal Haplotype) v2 v3
http://www.geocities.com/null439/GenDivByHG.htm (R1b marker diversity and mutation rates)
http://www.worldfamilies.net/Tools/r1b_ydna_in_europe.htm (R1b regional variations)
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~geneticgenealogy (R1b info from Leo Little)
http://worldfamilies.net/Tools/R1b%20bk.html (R1b DYS 390,391 percentages)
http://worldfamilies.net/Tools/Observed_R1b_Allele_Frequencies-Tarin.pdf (R1b Iberian vs. non-Iberian comparison [PDF])
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gallgaedhil/haplo_r1b_dys392_14.htm (R1b DYS392=14 analysis)
http://cerbere.ca/S28/ (R1b S28 website)
http://www.davidkfaux.org/R1b1c10_Data.htm (R1b S28 database)
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/r1b (R1b FTDNA project)
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ncscotts (R1b extended haplotypes)
http://www.geocities.com/mcewanjc/r1bsnp.htm (R1b SNP results)

Y-DNA I Haplogroup Information
http://knordtvedt.home.bresnan.net (Haplogroup I analysis)
http://evolutsioon.ut.ee/publications/Rootsi2004.pdf (Haplogroup I European distributions [PDF])

Irish DNA Information
http://mag.insideireland.com/sample19.htm (brief overview of Irish Y-DNA)
http://www.ftdna.com/pdf/Nature2000.pdf (Irish Y-DNA variations [PDF]-Hill)
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJHG/journal/issues/v75n4/41464/41464.web.pdf (Irish mtDNA [PDF])
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article5477636.ece (Earliest Irish)
http://www.rte.ie/tv/bloodoftheirish/index.html ("Blood of the Irish")
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1380239&blobtype=pdf (Ui Neill Y-DNA [PDF])
xxx (Patrilineal Y-DNA in Ireland)
http://www.nature.com/ejhg/journal/v14/n12/pdf/5201709a.pdf (Viking Y-DNA in Ireland)
xxx (Eoganacht Y-DNA)
http://www.gen.tcd.ie/molpopgen/data.htm (data for McEvoy's Irish studies)
http://www.m222.net/R1b1c7.htm ("Northwest Irish" Y-DNA)
http://www.jogg.info/22/ONeill.pdf (O'Neill vs. Ui Neill Y-DNA [PDF])
http://www.irishtype3dna.org ("Irish Type III" Y-DNA)
http://clanmaclochlainn.com/leinster.htm ("Leinster" Y-DNA)

British DNA Information
http://download.current-biology.com/pdfs/0960-9822/PIIS0960982203003737.pdf (British Isles Y-DNA [PDF]-Capelli)
http://web.archive.org/web/20050319122221/http://popgen.biol.ucl.ac.uk/Capelli.htm ("Capelli" study data)
http://mbe.oupjournals.org/cgi/reprint/19/7/1008.pdf (British Anglo-Saxon Y-DNA [PDF])

Scandanavian DNA Information
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/tcga/tcgapdf/Wilson-PNAS-01.pdf (Orkney Islands Y-DNA [PDF])
http://hpgl.stanford.edu/publications/EJHG_2002_v10_521-529.pdf (Norwegian Y-DNA [PDF])
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJHG/journal/issues/v67n3/001900/001900.web.pdf (Scandanavian and Gaelic Y-DNA ancestry in Iceland [PDF])
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJHG/journal/issues/v68n3/002146/002146.web.pdf (Scottish Islands and Icelandic mtDNA [PDF])

Y-DNA Databases
http://www.ysearch.org (YSearch)
http://smgf.org (Sorenson)
http://yhrd.org (YHRD)
http://ybase.org (YBase)

Y-DNA Tools
https://home.comcast.net/~whitathey/predictorinstr.htm (Y-DNA haplogroup predictor)
http://www.mymcgee.com/tools/yutility.html (Y-DNA comparison utility)

Interesting Y-DNA Surname Projects
http://mctiernan.com/dnatest.htm (McTiernan - detailed Irish sept study)
http://www.contexo.info/DorseyDNA/HarveyKelley.htm (the mystery of "Who was Harvey Kelley?")
http://ourworld.cs.com/Christine4Rose/rosedna.html (Rose - large study of an early American family)
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gallgaedhil/elliott_border_reivers_dna.htm (Elliot - and the Scottish "Border Reivers")
http://statgen.iop.kcl.ac.uk/sykes.pdf (Sykes Y-chromosome study [PDF])

Useful Books
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0786713348 (a fascinating book which uses DNA and archeology to explain man's origins and migrations)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1594860068 (a practical guide to genetic genealogy)

Etc
tree.htm (my personal genealogy page)

Last Revised: 6/11/08