John McDonald of Ardnacross was born about 1690. He was a Merchant in Glasgow then a Wadsetter in Ardandnacross when married married Grisel McAllester. John McDonald passed away about 1748.
Recently a confirmed YDNA match has been discovered between Richard R. McDonald McDonald-22450 to Max Milton MacAlister Macalister-103 who descends from John "Black John" MacAllster making our common ancestor the Grandfather Angus Vic MacAlister of Loup. Angus Mcalister's descendant Alexander McAllester of Loup his daughter Grizel McAllester married John McDonald of Ardnacross from Glasgow Scotland having a son named James. Benjamin McDonald was born in Glasgow Scotland and named his eldest son James.
There is many family connections of Max Milton's line his ancestor Black John his son Ranald married Ann McDonald daughter of Alexander McDonald who is a brother to John McDonald
[1] McDonald Family History
[2] Family Tree DNA
[3] Clan McAlister of America
Featured German connections: John is 19 degrees from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 24 degrees from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 24 degrees from Lucas Cranach, 21 degrees from Stefanie Graf, 19 degrees from Wilhelm Grimm, 22 degrees from Fanny Hensel, 26 degrees from Theodor Heuss, 17 degrees from Alexander Mack, 33 degrees from Carl Miele, 15 degrees from Nathan Rothschild, 21 degrees from Hermann Friedrich Albert von Ihering and 17 degrees from Ferdinand von Zeppelin on our single family tree. Login to see how you relate to 33 million family members.
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John Kingman, a DNA Project Coordinator