FamilyTreeDNA: Mitochondrial DNA Test (The Maternal Line) Part 3 of 3 - Genetic Genealogy

[@Cindyrelly]

I thought the vid was helpful. Now I have ordered my mtdna kit, uploaded autosomal dna from another test, requested to join a project group, and am exploring the learning center. Thanks!

[@GenealogyTV]

Best of luck!

[@stellaKAU]

Thanks Connie for these series. I am new to your channel and appreciate it especially when you bring those people from those agencies that we work with! Greetings from European from Australia 👋

[@GenealogyTV]

Thanks Stella from halfway around the world.

[@patriotsongs]

I did the full sequence. Of 2400 matches, only 5 did the Full Sequence, and only one of those matched all the way across. And only about a fifth (or less) put down an ancestor. I'm still trying to figure out how mtDNA is of any help, but I guess I'll keep plugging along!

[@donnafishler8120]

I tried again today when I watched the video and the video was completed in a few minutes. The MTDNA journey video that is.

[@GenealogyTV]

Hi Donna. I read both of your comments and I'm confused. If you have a question, I'll try to help.

[@donnafishler8120]

@@GenealogyTV thank you. I was able to generate the MTDNA yesterday.

[@donnafishler8120]

I mean the MTDNA video yesterday.

[@GenealogyTV]

Excellent.

[@Euas_proud]

I am Mongolian, my mt DNA U2e3

[@user-jr4kc6lu9q]

Did you have your complete mtDNA sequenced by a company like FamilyTreeDNA or YSEQ? If so, know that GenBank, YFull, and Theytree do not yet have a Mongolian representative of mtDNA haplogroup U2e3 in their databases, so please consider submitting your FASTA file to one of those databases if you got one, to promote scientific research.

[@Euas_proud]

@@user-jr4kc6lu9q No, but I want to do it. My Haplogroup changed to U2e3b2

[@JustCallMeJaph]

Would you recommend an mtDNA test to find a 4X or 5X great-grandmother, or are these ancestors too recent for the mtDNA test results to be helpful?

[@GenealogyTV]

It could be helpful. However, mtDNA tests are not nearly as popular as atDNA tests like you find at Ancestry. So finding good matches that lead you to the answer, may be a challenge.

[@donnafishler8120]

I did the full sequence in August 2020. I applied for the MTDNA journey in October 2020. It was never completed. I never received an email like it said I would when it was complete.

[@GenealogyTV]

I would contact them. They may send you another kit. It may have gotten lost in the mail or something.

[@popperglows5965]

Does this mean you are connected to all these matches from only female line - so if you are matched with a male - it just means that male descends from the same one woman ?

[@GenealogyTV]

I'm confused by your question. mTDNA is handed down to both male and female children. However, it stops with the male child and is not handed down to his children. His children get their mTDNA from their mother. On the other hand, I (as a female) have the same mTDNA as my mother, and her mother, on up the maternal line. Here is a great book that explains it really well. The Family Tree Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy amzn.to/3AYBoh3 (affiliate).

[@maanvol]

Why does such a test have to be so prohibitively expensive?

[@GenealogyTV]

Try during the holidays... and or mothers day, fathers day. They always go on sale.

[@ldsctr4silverfox]

Love the video and great job ladies. One suggestion. Exclude and refrain from "um' and 'a' pauses within the presentation video.

[@Elias_Truth]

My MTDNA test seems useless. I have no ancestral matches at all..

[@andrewhorsch2877]

Dang, that’s actually crazy… I am sorry.

[@Elias_Truth]

⁠@@andrewhorsch2877it’s fine, my maternal ancestor’s family immigrated to U.S. from Egypt. May just be isolated.. i do have 3 American matches, but no ancestral. One is a white lady and two black males. They all seem to be from New York/PA area..

[@andrewhorsch2877]

@@Elias_Truth your line is incognito!

[@JoLeeRohrer]

I received my results four months ago, and that is the case for me as well! I am one of four testers in my haplogroup, yet I do not match to any of them (based on how strict genetic distance parameters are). It is incognito for now . . .

[@apolloxbacalaycapili2516]

Thanks again!

[@GenealogyTV]

Any time!

[@burninglight]

I would love to know my genealogy tracing me back to my ancestor. I’m U6b1 traced back to Guanches in canary island and they had tested the mummies and we are related

[@jamesoconnor7143]

Comment by Carmencita: I received the results, but am at a loss as to what to make of it. I was able to look at the Map, but it does not give any way of understanding it. Can you help? I am really very ignorant following this.

[@GenealogyTV]

James, this is an area I don't work in that much. Andy at the Family History Fanatics might shed some light on it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3KcpXeZobuff5o and Vanessa Bland talks about it here kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZOUZWl3pMqmj9k

[@yvettewilson6971]

who offers a mt dna test

[@GenealogyTV]

Family Tree DNA

[@johnrogan9420]

Must deal with Kenya andcTanzania as MTA eve's birthplace.

[@GenealogyTV]

Undestood.

[@sandramoore8903]

The video didn't help at all. I don't know what happened to the trees in FTDNA, but they are horrible now!

[@GenealogyTV]

Sandra... I appreciate your feedback. Thanks for watching.

[@ValorieZimmerman]

I give this a thumbs up because there is good information plus excellent screen shots. However, it could be 50% better by editing out all of the "like, um. sort of, uh"s. Really annoying and unprofessional.

[@GenealogyTV]

Yes I’m trying. My newer videos are a little better.

[@farmbrough]

It's genealogy, not geneology.

[@moshenewsletter4620]

Haplogroup H is definitely Europeans descend from Neanderthal Maternal Lineage, and Haplogroup L1, L2 etc is African Maternal in origin. You can not confuse the two as the same race....MTDna of African women are not Neanderthals period.

[@GenealogyTV]

Thanks for your feedback.

[@poppletop8331]

I want to know whether I have ancestry connected to Royalty not Neandethals or Africans I mean...what's interesting about that. Well I have it on my tree connected to Royalty but we all know they were serial bedhoppers!

[@GenealogyTV]

Go to Relative Finder for those connections. Be sure you confirm everything with real records too.

[@skellingtonmeteoryballoon]

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