Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Are You a Descendant of Irish Ancestry?

 Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It's Saturday Night again - 

Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision. 

1)   This Sunday is St. Patrick's Day.  Are you a descendant of Irish ancestors?  Who are your most recent ancestor(s) who were born in Ireland?  Do you have DNA Irish ethnicity?  Have you performed any Irish genealogy research?

2) Tell us about your Irish ancestry, ethnicity and research in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook post.  Please leave a link on this post if you write your own post.

Here's mine:

My most recent Irish ancestor is probably my 9th great-grandparents, Ellis Barron (c1605-1676), who married Grace --?-- (c1605-1643).  They migrated to Watertown, Massachusetts Bay before 1640.  They are the only ancestors that I have with Irish ancestry.  

On the DNA tests, Ancestry does not show any Ireland ethnicity.  In 2014, Ancestry said I was 18% Irish, in 2016 Ancestry indicated I was 16% Irish, in 2021 they said I was 7% Irish, and in 2022 they said I was 6% Irish.  Now it's 0%.  I feel cheated out of rainbows and pots of gold.  

MyHeritage does not show any Ireland ethnicity.  23andMe lumps British and Irish together (38.7%).  FamilyTreeDNA does not show any Ireland ethnicity either, but lumps England, Scotland and Wales together (88%).

I have done some Irish genealogy research for Seaver surname persons.  There were several thriving Seaver families in the 1800s, one around Dublin and another in County Armagh.  Other researchers have traced some of the County Armagh Seaver families back to migrants from England in the early 1600s.  I don't know where Robert Seaver (1608-1683), who migrated to Massachusetts Bay in 1634, was born, but I think it was in Berkshire, not Ireland.  

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