While looking over my old draft Blogs, I came upon this one last updated in November of 2020. I had not finished it, but I wanted to post this now to show the progression of my Mitochondrial DNA Matches.
My last Blog on my Mitochondrial DNA or MtDNA was in 2018. I won’t go over everthing I wrote there. At that time I had four perfect MtDNA matches:
At that time, I noted that I was getting about one perfect (or Genetic Distance of zero) match per year. That rate has kept up and now I have seven perfect matches:
My three new matches are with Anne, Elizabeth and Ann. The two additional female surnames noted are for Gallagher and McLaughlin.
Triangulation of Female Ancestors – Back to Ireland, or Not?
At the time of my previous 2018 Blog, it seemed like my mother’s female line went back to Ireland based on the common ancestors. FTDNA has a map of my current matches, but only the ones who have listed a location for their female line oldest ancestor:
Here is a key to the pins:
However, along with the map, the dates have to be considered. My female line, from what I can tell goes back to the 1700’s:
Ann Nicholson is my great-grandmother. Ann Scott was certainly born in the 1700’s. I am not certain of Roebuck and Scott, but onely mostly sure. My MtDNA Haplogroup of H5’36 certainly goes back to the British Isles, but I would like to know more than that.
However, 9 people list an earliest known ancestor. These are:
- Gallagher
- McLaughlin
- McKelvey
- Jennings
- Coleman
- Francis
- Chiffink
- Roberts, Jolly
- Touhey
These names are helpful, but adding dates and places would be more helpful.
My MtDNA Matches’ Genealogy
The map above only shows the location of most distant female ancestor where that was added. Most people don’t add this information. Out of 21 matches:
- four people made it to the map
- 10 show that they have family trees at FTDNA
- 9 list an earliest known ancestor (see above)
The last two bullets have some overlap but some are only in one category or the other.
I’ll start a spreadsheet:
Already I have an issue. Anne’s tree has Anne O’Donnell as the oldest on her female-only line. But she listes Annie Gallagher.
A Tree for Newest MtDNA Match Anne
I can build a quick tree at Ancestry Here is Anne’s grandmother:
Anne’s great-grandmother is Margaret Campbell who was born in Ireland. Here is Maggie in 1900 in Philadelphia:
If this is right, Maggie came to the US as a baby in 1862. This appears to be Margaret’s death record:
Conlin is transcribed as Coulin.
This appears to be the passenger list for Maggie and her family:
It is more likely that Maggie was born in December 1862 than 1861. This ship, the Hecla, arrived June 29, 1863.
Summary and Conclusions
- The rate continues that I get about 1 new perfect Mitochondrial DNA match per year.
- Going through the genealogy on the maternal side for these matches – if these matches have provided trees – takes time
- So far, I have not found a genealogical connection in any of my matches