{"id":26688,"date":"2025-03-01T22:25:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T22:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jmhartley.com\/HBlog\/?p=26688"},"modified":"2025-03-01T22:25:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T22:25:15","slug":"more-on-mitochondrial-dna-mtdna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jmhartley.com\/HBlog\/2025\/03\/01\/more-on-mitochondrial-dna-mtdna\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my previous Blog<\/a>, I started to look at what FTDNA was doing with their new MitoTree and how that was changing my haplogroup. I had to trick out the query as my old Haplogroup of H5’36 is going away. I had to query H5 which was a popular haplogroup under H5’36. When I did that, I found our that the new Haplogroup above H5 will be called H5’248. Even though, my last Blog had Mitotree in the title, I never looked at the actual tree:<\/p>\n

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Here I shrunk down the H5’248 Time Tree to get it all in. Here is a larger view of the top of the tree:<\/p>\n

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There should be more branching under H5’248 once the FTDNA analysis is done (I hope). The above images are meant to show that the branching under H5’248 is small except for H5 which is large. I suppose that means that at some time in my maternal history before 4,000 BCE there were two sisters. One sister had a lot of descendants (including the H5 Haplogroup) and the other (my maternal ancestor) not so much. I suppose that problems in my maternal line could have been due to famine, plagues or wars.<\/p>\n

If I go upstream one step, I see this:<\/p>\n

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I see someone from Hungary and someone with an unknown ancestry under H5’248^. From my last Blog, I learned this:<\/p>\n

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The ancient connections screen shows this:<\/p>\n

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Talk about a distant relative.<\/p>\n

More from YFull<\/h2>\n

At some point, I uploaded my mtDNA results to YFull. YFull gives analysis of DNA that is independent of FTDNA.<\/p>\n

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Thanks to someone else who uploaded to YFull, I am in a new Haplogroup there called H5’36e. I am not sure how to read this screen. It gives a TMRCA of 1850. I assume that means 1850 years ago. If I understand this correctly, our common ancestor was in the year 150 approximately. Very interesting. At least this is much more recent than 4750 BCE. This screen confirms what I had thought:<\/p>\n

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I will next look at the first tab which is Known SNPs:<\/p>\n

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Again, not a lot of explanation here, but my assumption is that I share with one other tester two SNP:<\/p>\n