McKinstry Y DNA project

I don't think I've posted this here. This doesn't look like Meghan's page; not sure whose it is. I have a Y DNA project going at Family Tree DNA. So far, two descendants of William McKinstry of Sturbridge, MA, and one descendant of the Bucks County PA McKinstry family, have tested, and they are all matches. That is very interesting, since there is no particular tradition of the Bucks County PA and New England families being related.  There is, however, some sort of tradition that the New England familes were related to each other.  Otherwise, it strongly looks as if all McKinstry's have common roots in Minnigaff parish, Galloway, Scotland, just before 1500.   

The field is wide open for people to test.   I've got a South Carolina McKinstry (they went to Alabama, and there is also a Black family by that name who were once slaves of the White family) interested in testing but he can't afford it at the moment.   

It is important to test at Family Tree DNA.  I suppose I could start another project somewhere else, but the three people who ave tested so far demonstrate a family pattern of selectively varying on two markers that only Family Tree DNA tests for.   

You can join the project and get a $20 discount on the cost of testing.   Please if at all possible choose 37 markers, as that will allow the best placement of the lines relative to each other in time, and that is what two of the three people got tested.  I got 67 markers plus SNP's.   If you should prove to not match the McKinstry's who have so far tested, you'll need atleast 37 markers to search the databases for who you might match.   

The project is at http://www.familytreedna.com/public/McKinstry (I think).   

Yours,

Dora Smith