Project News
01 January 2009 - the number of project results is 45 (from haplogroups C, H, I, J, K, T, U, W, X)
01 January 2008 - the number of project results is 27 (from haplogroups H, I, J, K, T, U, W, X)
02 April 2007 - the number of project results is 13 (from haplogroups H, K, T, W, and X)
24 March 2007 - the NFLD-LAB-DNA mailing list was established
27 October 2006 - the project was created
Discussion Group:
The NFLD-LAB-DNA email mailing list serves as our project's mailing list, as well as a forum for discussion of genetic genealogy in Newfoundland and Labrador. To subscribe to the list, click here. All messages posted to the list can be found in the NFLD-LAB-DNA archives.
Links:
• International Society of Genetic Genealogy
• Family History Society of Newfoundland and Labrador
• Newfoundland's Grand Banks Genealogy Site
• Newfoundland and Labrador GenWeb
• NFLD-ROOTS mailing list
• Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador
Beothuk mtDNA:
In a paper published in 2007 in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, the HVR1 mutations for two members of the Beothuk people were determined as follows:
| Name | Haplogroup | HVR1 |
|---|
| Demasduit | C | 223T,298C,325C,327T |
| Nonosabasut | X2a | 093C,189C,213A,223T,278T |
Demasduit has genetic matches with present-day Nova Scotia Mi'kmaq as well as Cherokee in Oklahoma. Nonosabasut's matches include some Nova Scotia Mi'kmaq as well as Chippawa from North Dakota/Alberta, Wisconsin Chippawa, and the Kiowa of Oklahoma.