Project Goals
The purpose of this group is to document family connections and ethnic migrations of families who are part of the U5 haplogroup. Scientific knowledge of this group is still in its infancy. Published scientific papers on haplogroup U5 have been based on relatively small numbers of participants, and we are all pioneers in this emerging field. By including the mtDNA results of participants of former scientific studies with our unique combination of mtDNA profiles and family histories, we will contribute to the base of knowledge about Haplogroup U5 and its branches, its ethnic origins, and its historic migration. Equally important, we will attempt to discover our personal branches of the U5 tree and begin to connect the pedigrees of our ancestral women who share this haplogroup.