If you have DNA tested for family history and interested in collaborating with any of my ongoing research projects, do get in touch, especially if you have proven or suspected connections to the following families in these locations:

ALLOTT (Heckmondwike/Birstall, Yorkshire, England)
ARTLETT (Kent & London, England)
ASHFORD (Birmingham, England)
BACON (Lincolnshire, England and US emigrant families)
BARTON (Coventry, England)
BATEMAN (Bristol area, England)
BICKNELL / BRICKNELL (Hatton, Warwickshire & Birmingham, England)
BIDMEAD (Coventry, England, also London and emigrants families in USA & New Zealand)
BLATHERWICK (Oxton, Burton Joyce & Gedling, Nottinghamshire, England)
BODEN (Madeley, Shropshire & Birmingham, England)
BOOT (Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England)
BOWLES (Sandwich, Kent, England)
BRADLEY (Greenhill Lane, Derbyshire and Plumtree, Nottinghamshire, England)
BURTON (Barton-under-Needwood, Staffordshire and Birmingham, England, also expat families in Victoria & New South Wales, Australia)
COLLINS (Leap, County Cork, Ireland)
COPELAND (East Riding, Yorkshire, England)
COTTRELL (Ashbrittle and Stawley, Somerset, England)
DUDLEY (Oldbury, Worcestershire, England)
DUGARD (Birmingham & Worcestershire, England)
ELLIOTT (Lincolnshire, England and US emigrant families)
FAULKS (Greasley, Nottinghamshire, England)
FITZPATRICK (Rosscarbery area, County Cork, Ireland)
FRANCIS (Birmingham, England)
GARLAND (Bristol area, England)
GIBBES (Elmstone, Kent, England)
GOOD (Clonakilty & Rathbarry, County Cork, Ireland)
GRACE (Ashford, Kent and Birmingham, England)
GULLIFORD (Aisholt, Somerset, England)
HADLEY (Oldbury, Worcestershire, England)
HARRISON (Greenhill Lane, Derbyshire, England)
HARROLD (County Cork, Ireland)
HAWTHORN (Birmingham, England)
HAYWOOD ({Plumtree, Nottinghamshire, England)
HODDER (Nether Stowey and Winsham, Somerset, England, and emigrants to South Africa & Australia)
HOLBROOK (Iron Acton, Gloucestershire, England)
HYMAS (Essex, England & USA)
JANES (Ashbrittle and Stawley, Somerset, England)
KNIGHT (Preston by Wingham & Wickhambreaux, Kent, England)
LANE (Kingston St Mary and Taunton, Somerset, England)
LAWRENCE (Preston by Wingham, Kent, England)
LOCK (Hillfarrance, Somerset, England)
LOWNEY (County Cork & Wexford town, Ireland)
McCARTHY (Ballyvourney, County Cork, Ireland)
McDONOUGH and variants (County Mayo, Ireland)
McDONALD / MacDONALD (Tipton, Dudley and the wider West Midlands, England)
MENNIS (County Cork, Ireland and expatriate families in Canada, US & Australia)
MONKS (Bristol area, England)
MORDECAI aka MORT (Glamorgan, Wales)
O’BRIEN (Rathbarry, County Cork, Ireland)
O’BRIEN mangan / MANNING (County Cork, Ireland)
O’CONNELL (Kilnamartyra, County Cork, Ireland and expat families in Wilmington, Delaware, USA)
O’DONOVAN (Clonakilty & Dunmanway areas, County Cork, Ireland)
O’NEILL (Clonakilty area, County Cork, Ireland and expat families)
OSBORNE (Bristol area, England)
O’SULLIVAN (Beara, County Cork, Ireland)
OXENHAM (Samford Brett, Somerset, England)
PARR (Kinver & Iverley, Staffordshire, England)
PHIPPS (Bristol area, England)
POPPLEWELL (Birmingham and Heckmondwike, Yorkshire, England)
ROBERTS (Birmingham and the wider Portsmouth area, England)
ROGERS (Bristol area, England)
SANDERS (Middlesex, Leicestershire, Rutland & Lincolnshire, England; Chantilly in Northern France & the wider Toulouse area in the south of France)
SANDERS (Coventry & Birmingham, England and expat families in Canada & Elgin, Illinois, USA)
SESTON (Birmingham, England and Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire)
SHILVOCK / SHELVOCK / SHILBURNE (Birmingham, England)
SHORTEN (Moneygaff West, County Cork, Ireland)
STEVENS (Tipton, Staffordshire, England, Isle of Man & US emigrant families)
SWANTON (Ballydehob, County Cork, Ireland)
TOMKINS (Coventry, England)
USHERWOOD (Ashford, Kent, England)
VARLEY (Derbyshire & Nottinghamshire, England)
VENESS (Sussex, Worcestershire and Birmingham, England and also expat families in the US & Australia)
WALKER (Birmingham, England)
WHITAKER / WHITTAKER (Churchill, Worcestershire, England)
WILSON (Greasley and Brinsley, Nottinghamshire, England)
WHITEHOUSE (Tipton, Staffordshire, England; a unique genetic subset of the wider family name)

You can upload your DNA data from Ancestry, 23andMe and other testing companies for free to GEDmatch.com and MyHeritage.
When contacting me, please include your exact username on whichever platform your DNA is registered with and your GEDmatch kit number.

Many thanks.

Mark Grace
Resident genetic genealogist at Ballynoe House