Matthew Wallace, Resident of Manokin in Colonial Maryland - Y DNA conflict

Just wished more men would test and complete the Big Y. Half of those I meet are sheepish and prefer not to know their true haplogroup fearing what they may find !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am the FTDNA Wallace DNA Project administrator. Erica Howton accurately identifies the lineage of Matthew Wallace of Manokin as the I-L596 > I-BY444 lineage. Looking at Big Y 700s, we have 11 closely related but differing branches now dispersed worldwide. The earliest of these branches is of a lineage that migrated to colonial America from Switzerland. Genetic distances establish that this lineage existed 1000s of years before any adopted the surname Wallace in Scotland. Since 2007, family histories, autosomal testing, YDNA STR testing and SNP testing place a common male Wallace ancestor in Scotland not later than about 1600. I am the I-BY444 and descend from the son David of the Matthew Wallace accepted as marrying Elizabeth Alexander. This lineage was professionally developed in the 1930s and updated in the 1940s by the Maryland NSDAR for presentation to Mrs. Bess Wallace Truman at the White House after President HarryTruman took office. This document is archived and microfilmed and can be found in the NSDAR Library in Washington, DC, as acquisition 36135. Wallace Family Papers dating to the late 1700s are, also, filed in the Special Collections and Archives of the Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. Google: MS 92 Wallace Wright State. Autosomal testing has a significant generational reach. Thus, using autosomal testing as a tool in genealogy, Wilbert Albert Wallace, Jr., may well be just as much of the I haplogroup as I am, the difference being that his lineage is picked up in his maternal lines. As to the Scot lineage of these lines, I like Horace Hayden's 1891 VIRGINIA GENEALOGIES. This volume cross-references nicely to Charles Rogers' 1889 BOOK OF WALLACE. Both are free to be read on Google Books.

You nailed the connection Wallace connection to the I2a2 Wallaces in your comment and reference.. I felt a need to respond.

I'd like to see your tree. When I find either Ross or Cunningham matches, I look for a Wallace connection.

Eleanor Ross married the Revolutionary War Ranger Thomas Wallace who died in 1812 and is buried a few miles from where I sit. A descendant matches me by Big Y 700 STRs at 611/611 even though we have different terminal SNPs, BY43 and BY444. The poet William Ross Wallace was of these Wallaces by paper trail. William Ross Wallace, the poet of "the hand tat rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world." is of these Wallaces. Your Ross family?