MtDNA match

[Cats]

SMGF has come up with a MtDNA match which is a bit strange but very exciting. My grandmtoher's family came from Lithuania and the HVR 1 and 2 match on SMGF is from England. How close is this type of match?

Linda

[Jim Honeychuck]

SMGF has come up with a MtDNA match which is a bit strange but very exciting. My grandmtoher's family came from Lithuania and the HVR 1 and 2 match on SMGF is from England. How close is this type of match?

Linda

An HVR1+HVR2 match generally indicates a 50-50 chance of a common ancestor within the past 1,000 years or so.

Regards,
Jim

[Cats]

An HVR1+HVR2 match generally indicates a 50-50 chance of a common ancestor within the past 1,000 years or so.>>

Not much information is really available from a HVR1 and 2 match is there especially since there is only a 50-50 chance of having a common ancestor. So disappointing after all this time.

[Jim Honeychuck]

An HVR1+HVR2 match generally indicates a 50-50 chance of a common ancestor within the past 1,000 years or so.>>

Not much information is really available from a HVR1 and 2 match is there especially since there is only a 50-50 chance of having a common ancestor. So disappointing after all this time.

Few people ever find a relative with mtDNA, but then none of the commercial services suggest that you will.

mtDNA testing is for deep ancestry, which can be fun to investigate.

I put my own closest matches on a Google map: http://tinyurl.com/67nl5c

Regards,
Jim

[Kathleen Carrow]

Few people ever find a relative with mtDNA, but then none of the commercial services suggest that you will.

mtDNA testing is for deep ancestry, which can be fun to investigate.

I put my own closest matches on a Google map: http://tinyurl.com/67nl5c

Regards,
Jim

Hi Jim
That WAS fun to look at..my daughter-in-law is a K and that is what her matches look like also.Since she knew little to nothing about that ancestor it WAS informative.

With my J2( I am still awaiting a slowww FGS) I am deducing that my Cork born GGGM might have had Norman roots like many of my other Irish ancestors as I have a couple of matches that were said to be Huguenot including one who came on the Mayflower
Not mine of course.. mine were all mostly "Bog-trotters" or "Mackeral -snatchers" as my mostly Irish Dad used to say..I have matches from Cork itself, Scotland and the Huguenot expats.

[Jim Honeychuck]

Hi Jim
That WAS fun to look at..my daughter-in-law is a K and that is what her matches look like also.Since she knew little to nothing about that ancestor it WAS informative.

With my J2( I am still awaiting a slowww FGS) I am deducing that my Cork born GGGM might have had Norman roots like many of my other Irish ancestors as I have a couple of matches that were said to be Huguenot including one who came on the Mayflower
Not mine of course.. mine were all mostly "Bog-trotters" or "Mackeral -snatchers" as my mostly Irish Dad used to say..I have matches from Cork itself, Scotland and the Huguenot expats.

p. 189 of Oppenheimer's The Origins of the British says, "After Brittany, however, J2 jumps across the Channel to the British Isles, where it is now found in particular association with Goidelic-celtic-speaking areas." In other words, he is speculating that J2 arrived in Ireland with the Celtic language.

Regards,
Jim

[Kathleen Carrow]

p. 189 of Oppenheimer's The Origins of the British says, "After Brittany, however, J2 jumps across the Channel to the British Isles, where it is now found in particular association with Goidelic-celtic-speaking areas." In other words, he is speculating that J2 arrived in Ireland with the Celtic language.

Regards,
Jim

Well that is pretty neat..I must have skipped right over that bit when I read it..
Thanks Jim