I finally tied into gedmatch which you can do through ancestry. i did not know what I did took, but i got an email from an o'connor. that is one of the three top names i suspect on my irish side..the others being shea and sullivan..just from hints..no matches. also prob fitzgerald.
so anyway, i went there, don't know what i am doing, but finding all sorts of exact matches and lots of most likely matches. i was dumfounded when it went back to 1000...then 800...some norwegian king I think..then 300..i think it was king of the vandals. or selvidge the saxon. ancestry seems to only go back to 1600...this is astounding. everyone should try it but you will only get matches where people have odne trees and there should be way more irish trees than there are...and people takin the test.

lots and lots of stewarts and it is so confusing. just give me stirling castle or whatever one i deserve and be done with it.