Mt-DNA is the DNA a mother gives to each of her children, male or female.
The mother got her Mt-DNA from her mother, who got it from her mother who got it from her mother who got it from her mother, onward, back in time, forever.

The male offspring does not pass this Mt-DNA to his children. But the female offspring of a mother does pass along this Mt-DNA to her offspring-male and female.

So, this Project is both a Genealogical AND Genetic Study of males and females related through the Mt-DNA K1a4a1b2 Haplogroup
Mic, is a male who inherited his Mt-DNA from his mother, who got it from her mother, who got it from her mother, etc on back in time.

As this study begins there seems to be three distinct groups based on Genetic Distance and Geography.

Those preliminary groups are:

1) The South: Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia and some Tennessee and South Carolina

2) New England: Essex County, Massachusetts, especially, Lynn and Salem: Rhode Island, particularly Providence County's towns of Coventry, and West Greenwich:
    The Town of Rutland in Rutland County, Vermont; plus the typical westward migration out of New England into New York, Ohio, Nebraska, Oregon, etc.

3) Europe and Scandinavia: particularly, Germany and Finland