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Hi Justin,
I can't reveal the identity of participants in the project.
This participant has no matches in the project so far and he unlikely of Barra origin. We have quite a large sample of Barra men already.
What I have found in general is that participants often need to just sit back and wait and eventually a surname match turns up. We had a man with roots in CB who had no matches. After about a year or two another match from Cape Breton was found. Eventually my mother's distant cousin came back as a match and so a third Barra MacNeil Y-DNA group has started to form.
The Y-DNA project has been facinating for me from the viewpoint of being a participant. It only invloves a cheek swab. There is a cost however but your DNA can take you places a paper trail never can. If you add up the costs of all the photocopying and stuff you would see that the Y-DNA test is relatively cheap. It is facinating to think that men all have this little piece of Y-DNA that we get from our fathers which can link us to men who are related to us. Distant brothers in a sense. It mutates at a relatively slow rate so the surname matches are significant.
Should you chose to join yourself, your results would help confirm the Y-DNA signature of your Robert. It is always best to test with a distant cousin and you have a distant cousin already in the project.
You can find vitals for Nova Scotia on-line at https://www.novascotiagenealogy.com/
Play with the search engine because there are lots of different spelling for MacNeil/McNeil etc. There are some vitals for your branch there. Also check for Niel
Vince
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