Ancestry DNA
I had my DNA checked by ancestry.com. The results were as follows:
36% Europe West
34% Ireland (includes Scotland)
22% Great Britain
4% Scandinavia
3% Iberian Peninsula
<1% Finland/Northwest Russia
I had my DNA checked by ancestry.com. The results were as follows:
36% Europe West
34% Ireland (includes Scotland)
22% Great Britain
4% Scandinavia
3% Iberian Peninsula
<1% Finland/Northwest Russia
I am descended from Wm Cromartie too and have kayak many times in the South River (& Black River). I’m headed to South Ronaldsay on June 1 after running the Edinburgh marathon on May 27.
Im trying to learn all I can about SR and Wm. Cromartie before leaving. I read your blog about Eastside.
How can I be included in Cromartie reunion activities? I work for the University of Mount Olive and live in Goldsboro.
Thanks,
Paul Rutter
42% Irish
36% Scandinavian
10% Europe West
6% Iberian
6% Greek/Italian
<1% British
Information is available at the Cromartie Family Association web site https://www.cromartiefamilyassociation.com/executive-committee.html. The vice-president is normally in charge of the reunion. I would suggest that you contact Vice-President Amanda Cook Gilbert at aacook@consolidated.net.
I hope you enjoy the Orkneys. William Cromartie was born May 31, 1731 at the “Mucklehouse on South Ronaldshay. I liked touring the graveyard of the St Peters Church at Eastside on South Ronaldshay when I was there in 2000. It contains the graves of many Cromartys. Some of the stones have worn enough to be difficult to read, but the library in Kirkwall has records that reveal diagrams of the gravestones.
There is a great article about the 5,000-year-old Neolithic stone structures on Mainland Island in the August 2014 edition of National Geographic. Don’t miss Skara Brae, the Standing Stones of Stenness, the Ring of Brodgar, or the newly uncovered Ness of Brodgar.