mtDNA Test Results

I just got back my mtDNA test results. Maternal DNA tests reveal the maternal line back to an ancestral area, not a surname (since surnames change each generation...).

Maternal DNA is consistent as it is passed down mother to daughter or son. My mtDNA results would be the same as my maternal grandmother's. Same as her siblings' would be, too. My mother, my siblings or my daughter would receive the same mtDNA test results.  This mtDNA would be pertinent for any descendants of Lola Blakesley Morgan who are interested in 'mapping' her maternal line as well. It would apply to anyone who has any of these women listed below in their genealogical lineage:

Their (and our) maternal history is this:

1. Lola Blakesley Morgan, daughter of
2. Mary Elizabeth Blakesley Blakesely, daughter of (yes she married a cousin)
3. Eliza Swan Blakesley, daughter of
4. Susanna Judd Swan, daughter of
5. Mary Andrews Judd, daughter of
6. Anna Eddy Andrews, daughter of
7. Mary Meakins Eddy, daughter of
8. Mary Goodwin Meakins, daughter of
9. Elizabeth Pratt Goodwin, daughter of
10. Elizabeth Young Pratt. 

Elizabeth married 2 July 1626 at Baldock in Hertfordshire, England, to John Pratt (later settled at Hartford, Connecticut). [See NEHGR 149(1995):377.]  The line stays in New England until Eliza marries and moves west with her husband.

The wonderfully concise list above was generously contributed by cousin William S Morgan.
Thank you Billy!

DNA Findings, 5/3/10,
Breaking down the mtDna results for Patricia

The W haplogroup ultimately descends from the N group, sister of R, I, X, and A.

The W group is not related to any of the "7 Daughters of Eve,” even though 95% of Europeans do descend from any one of those 7 groups. How large is the W haplogroup? At the present time, I'm wondering if it's a smaller group than the Daughters of Eve. The "W" group is found 'first' in the Middle East and traveled from there to northwest Europe, and also east to India and Asia. The "W" group subdivided from the "N" group (which Ashkenazi Jews descend from), and earlier from L3, L2, L1 going back to Africa.

W1c2 Subgroup

Only 12% of the Ws have 'lost' (don’t have) the 16292T marker .
This loss appears not to be "post N" subdividing. [What does that mean?]

Further, I have ‘added’ 143A-192C-194T-196C: this is unique within the W haplogroup.

The 194T change is cited as "clade" defining.

The www.thecid.com site discusses W haplogroup, naming it the "Wilma" group as no one else has given it a 'name' yet!

The list of W test results totaled 1212. There were only 20 in the group that matched my W1c2, [ the ‘lost’ 16292T, added 143A-192C-194T-196C sequence]. Those 20 descended from Finland, Ireland and Sweden. [Yet my ancestor Elizabeth Young married her husband John Pratt in England.]

There are some really neat maps at this site: http://www.capecoloureddnaproject.com/Maps.htm
which show the migratory pattern of W.

Giving credit where credit is due: The above map is Family Tree DNA's MtDNA Human Migration map. It beautifully illustrates MtDNA migration patterns.