Genealogy's Secret Weapon: How mtDNA Can Solve Family Mysteries

[miquirumba]

Just curious

On the MitoTree Badge, any significance to the red circle with occasional breaks?

I thought perhaps it is the circular shape of mitochondrial DNA, but the Classic mtDNA badge does not have the Circle.

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Capsian20 , why do you think your Classic badge changed?

is seems to me i was in position ambiguous because i have SNP V12 (T7270C) and V25 as well (C14629T)

No V12 ancient sample except MK059596.1 Late Middle Age Black Death from Denmark. It smells like V12 was actually a G25 branch which lost main G25 marker

[geebee-1015]

Then there's mine, where both Mitotree beta and my confirmed haplogroup seem exactly the same -- H1bg.

I have two exact matches, one of whom is pretty close. His maternal grandmother and mine were maternal half sisters -- so all our mtDNA ancestors are the same from our great grandmother onward.

The other match is more distant: the three of us share a 5th great grandmother. This match lists her as his most distant known mtDNA ancestor, but my 2nd cousin and I list her mother, who obviously is a 6th great grandmother to all three of us. Her name was Marie Anne Catherine Berda dit Picard, and she was born in ~1726 on Horn Island off the Gulf coast of what is now Mississippi.

Anywhere, so far there doesn't seem to be anything new for me. :-(

[Capsian20]

Just curious

On the MitoTree Badge, any significance to the red circle with occasional breaks?

I thought perhaps it is the circular shape of mitochondrial DNA, but the Classic mtDNA badge does not have the Circle.

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Capsian20 , why do you think your Classic badge changed?

is seems to me i was in position ambiguous because i have SNP V12 (T7270C) and V25 as well (C14629T)

No V12 ancient sample except MK059596.1 Late Middle Age Black Death from Denmark. It smells like V12 was actually a G25 branch which lost main G25 marker

No i dont think V12 its downstream under V25

[Mabrams]

Just curious if anyone knows about mtDNA haplogroups based upon Family Finder SNPs.

From July 31, 2023 blog

"What about mtDNA haplogroups?
We didn’t forget about mtDNA! Once the rollout of Y-DNA haplogroups is complete, we’ll begin work to bring mtDNA haplogroups to all Family Finder customers. You can expect an announcement regarding mtDNA haplogroups next year [2024]."

When might these happen?  And to what depth?  Basic or Intermediate etc?

[Capsian20]

Just curious if anyone knows about mtDNA haplogroups based upon Family Finder SNPs.

From July 31, 2023 blog

"What about mtDNA haplogroups?
We didn’t forget about mtDNA! Once the rollout of Y-DNA haplogroups is complete, we’ll begin work to bring mtDNA haplogroups to all Family Finder customers. You can expect an announcement regarding mtDNA haplogroups next year [2024]."

When might these happen?  And to what depth?  Basic or Intermediate etc?

I dont think now but maybe next fews months (?) , i think maybe only Basic Haplogroup and some Haplogroups Intermediate

[Capsian20]

Ha!  There is now a unicorn icon in my mtDNA Match Time Tree, with the caption
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You do not have any mtFull matches in our database at this time. This usually means that you belong to a rare or under-tested lineage and are the first from your maternal line to take the mtFull test. We recommend checking back periodically as our database grows all the time with new mtFull Sequence testers, academic samples, and ancient connections."

Is seems to me we are not lucky about Match Time Tree , you can see others subclade because you have matches with them in coding region

[Capsian20]

Hello guys Mrs Roberta she is posted new post in DNAeXplained about cluster Haplogroups