{"id":15674,"date":"2020-11-17T22:16:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T22:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jmhartley.com\/HBlog\/?p=15674"},"modified":"2022-12-30T13:24:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T13:24:43","slug":"an-update-on-my-mitochondrial-dna-from-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jmhartley.com\/HBlog\/2020\/11\/17\/an-update-on-my-mitochondrial-dna-from-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"An Update On My Mitochondrial DNA from 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

My last Blog on my Mitochondrial DNA or MtDNA was in 2018<\/a>. I won’t go over everthing I wrote there. At that time I had four perfect MtDNA matches:<\/p>\n

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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:<\/p>\n

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My three new matches are with Anne, Elizabeth and Ann. The two additional female surnames noted are for Gallagher and McLaughlin.<\/p>\n

Triangulation of Female Ancestors – Back to Ireland, or Not?<\/h2>\n

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:<\/p>\n

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Here is a key to the pins:<\/p>\n

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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:<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

However, 9 people list an earliest known ancestor. These are:<\/p>\n

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  1. Gallagher<\/li>\n
  2. McLaughlin<\/li>\n
  3. McKelvey<\/li>\n
  4. Jennings<\/li>\n
  5. Coleman<\/li>\n
  6. Francis<\/li>\n
  7. Chiffink<\/li>\n
  8. Roberts, Jolly<\/li>\n
  9. Touhey<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    These names are helpful, but adding dates and places would be more helpful.<\/p>\n

    My MtDNA Matches’ Genealogy<\/h2>\n

    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:<\/p>\n