Purpose of this project is to help everyone with mtDNA haplogroup H1am or any of its subgroups to find more about their maternal ancestry. Currently (May 2025) there are 144 tested persons within haplogroup H1am, of which 36 in subgroup H1am1; the rest 108 belong either to ‘plain’ H1am or to any of the several subgroups which are not yet universally defined in the phylogenetic mtDNA tree (https://www.familytreedna.com/public/mt-dna-haplotree/H;name=H1am). This is due to the current Build 17 of the tree being published already in 2016 and several branch-defining mutations being found only later. FTDNA’s Million Mito Project (https://www.familytreedna.com/mtdna-million-mito-project) has changed this situation radically. Beta version of the new tree was published in February 2025, and updated Mitotree haplogroups are added to all the older test-takers, while the most-recently tested ones will get their updated haplogroups accordingly. For more information about the project, please see Roberta Estes’ DNAeXplained – Genetic Genealogy blog (https://dna-explained.com/2022/04/13/million-mito-project-team-introduction-and-progress-update/ and most recent news in https://dna-explained.com/category/million-mito-project/ > Million Mito Project & Mitotree). ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ There is a separate project for haploroup H1am in Geni (https://www.geni.com/projects/H1am-Mitochondrial-DNA/38854). If you have a profile in Geni, please upload your FTDNA test results there, as well, and fill your maternal lineage as fully as you can. Doing this will help us to find our common maternal roots. Especially people with Irish ancestry who lack written sources may benefit very much of this.