My sister's genetic results came in this week. She and I belong to Haplogroup "H." Her tests follow our maternal lineage comparing us to the Mitochondrial "
Eve." Every human currently on the planet is descended from this particular early human, so we expected to be connected to that lineage, naturally. After that the mitochondrial DNA mutates and splits and divides into further trackable groups. Group H, our group, comprises nearly 60% of Europe... in other words were European, and dirt common ones. Surprise surprise. Since we are of such a common lineage the project can't tell us very much that is specific. We had already guessed based on maiden names, etc. that we were European, possibly German or Dutch, though we have no real evidence of that. Our attempts at tracking our mother's ancestors through records have dead-ended at her grandparents because there's no records of them. My great grandparents are it. Seems like it is pretty much the same on our father's side too. I guess our ancestors weren't much for the record keeping. Unlike most families there aren't any familial bibles or other records that have been passed down for generations. We unfortunately also lost our best source when our grandmother died a few years ago. It isn't likely that my sister or I will be having children (I may adopt.. but that's another story) so maybe it doesn't matter. We're the end our mother's line anyway. Daughter to daughter genetic passage of however many generation it has lasted ends with us. We won't be repeating our history, so it doesn't matter that we've forgotten it.
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My sister's genetic results came in this week. She and I belong to Haplogroup "H." Her tests follow our maternal lineage comparing us to the Mitochondrial "Eve." Every human currently on the planet is descended from this particular early human, so we expected to be connected to that lineage, naturally. After that the mitochondrial DNA mutates and splits and divides into further trackable groups. Group H, our group, comprises nearly 60% of Europe... in other words were European, and dirt common ones. Surprise surprise. Since we are of such a common lineage the project can't tell us very much that is specific. We had already guessed based on maiden names, etc. that we were European, possibly German or Dutch, though we have no real evidence of that. Our attempts at tracking our mother's ancestors through records have dead-ended at her grandparents because there's no records of them. My great grandparents are it. Seems like it is pretty much the same on our father's side too. I guess our ancestors weren't much for the record keeping. Unlike most families there aren't any familial bibles or other records that have been passed down for generations. We unfortunately also lost our best source when our grandmother died a few years ago. It isn't likely that my sister or I will be having children (I may adopt.. but that's another story) so maybe it doesn't matter. We're the end our mother's line anyway. Daughter to daughter genetic passage of however many generation it has lasted ends with us. We won't be repeating our history, so it doesn't matter that we've forgotten it.
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