updated December 2021
Samples of DNA have been tested by www.ancestry.co.uk and uploaded to gedmatch.com
The results give me an ethnicity estimate of 89% from Scotland, 9% from Ireland and 2% from Wales.
Ancestry have suggested quite a few matches with the DNA of other members, many of whom live in USA or Canada , their ancestors having emigrated in the 18th or 19th centuries.
Matches of interest are:
There is an identifiable match through Thomas Skimming and his wife Henrietta Aitken to an ancestry member
with the user Id of MelanieSinclair.
Thomas and Henrietta's daughter Henrietta married John Paterson Corson in 1879.
John Paterson Corson is related to the Corson line below.
It is likely that there is more Corson / Chisholm genes in this match than McSkimming.
There is also an identifiable match through John Skimming and his wife Jessie Gemmell to an ancestry member with the user Id of Bruce Purdie.
John and Jessie's grandaughter, Mary Barclay McSkimming Neil, married William Purdie in 1924.
There are Identifiable matches through the Chisholm / Martin / Corson line to ancestry members with the IDs
of melaniesinclair and jansaunders11.
My feeling is that my Corson DNA is stronger than the my McSkimming DNA, either that or more Corson family descendants have had their DNA tested than the McSkimming family.
There is an Identifiable matches through the Chisholm / Martin line to an ancestry member with the ID of June McPherson.
There is an identifiable match through the Chisholm / Hall / Baillie line to an ancestry member with the user Id of N.P.
There is an identifiable match through the Jamieson / Tait line to ancestry members with the user Ids of B.A. and Katherine Bell.
There is a possible match through the Jamieson / Duff line to an
Ancestry member with the user Id of BettyCline75.
The common ancestors seem to be Michael Jamieson and Mary Duff, this proves that Hugh Jamieson was their son which is significant because I
have not been able to find documentry proof.
There is an identifiable distant match through the Chisholm / Hall / Campbell line to an
Ancestry member with the user Id of amazed43.
The common ancestors are Duncan Campbell and Catharine McGreish or Buchannan from Argylshire.
Three identifiable matches have been found:
There are a number of other matches to the Jamieson line, but to date, no common ancestors can be identified for them.
One of these matches is to an Ancestry member with the user ID of M.D.
M.D. has Jamieson ancestors from Dalry, Kirkcudbrightshire going back to the early 1800's and
Peacock ancestors from Kirkcudbrightshire also in the 1800's
There is an identifiable match through the Chisholm / Paterson line to an ancestry member with the user Id of pamadams146.
My Ancestry user Id is GeorgeMcSkimming