H2 mtGenome

I am too H2a1 and from Finland

H2a1 from USA of Scottish ancestry. If I'm correct, even a 0GD for mtDNA could have a TMRCA of thousands of years.

I'm one branch further on H2a1a and the known direct maternal roots are in southern Finland. It is facinating how wide this mutation has spread. So far the closest matches with genetic distance 0 there is just one Finnish match. 20 matches with genetic distance of 1 and out of these one in Sweden and one in Latvia. I've included only the mtFull Sequence tests.

Yes, that very first H2a1 lady have had an awful lot of offsprings. In order of having generation after generation of daughters to spread that mtDNA this line of women have been very successful. My line have most certainly thrived by the Botnia Bay northern Scandinavia and their ascendents seem very interested in genealogy considering how many of us that have taken the test. I found this interesting paper on line and maybe you will find it interesting too. http://www.academia.edu/35491026/The_discreet_Origin_of_H2a1_MtDNA_and_its_sudden_Eurasian_Expansion_offer_a_unique_Testimony_about_what_remained_from_the_Natufians_the_Neolithic_Revolution_in_Near_East_and_Chalcolithic_in_Lesser_Caucasus

Thanks for the update

Sorry I have not been here in a while. And I got no heads-up that you had written a comment, Tomas. You may simply have that mutation H2a ( i e very little has happend over the years), and no more. Or you are the only one with a mutation no one else tested for yet. I think there have to be at least two samples of a mutation before it get its own "new name". I was H2a1 when I first was tested and then they updated that big tree of known mtDNA , and that n was added and my matchlist was different after that.

Sorry for the late reply! thank you Margareta! I guess only time will tell :) On my mother's paternal side we have a genealogy going back to the 1300's. I should probably add that to my tree and I will get many more matches. the only thing is we know nothing about her maternal lineage which is why I did the DNA test in the first place. I guess you also answered Tomas' question very well :) I was wondering the same thing actually

It is a lottery! My mothers paternal grandmother (my mothers cousins) has very few matches, 4 last time I looked, and they are scattered over a fairly large area. I have as I said lots of matches, ca 50, mostly concentrated to one specific region. My maternal grandmothers side seem to have lived in an area where women stayed for generations. My paternal grandmother side seem so far to belong to women with a different history of being on the move from one generation to the next. This is very interesting how patterns of families and their life stories differs. I know as much as that women of my maternal grandmothers line lived in a society where women had a strong position generally. They married normally at the age of 23 (not teenage marriages) as far as I can see, and they were skilled in husbandry, taking care of cows and sheep (cheese and clothes) important to the family's economy. So their skills where appreciated and valued, probably one of the reasons for marrying first after you had a proper "education" and know-how from being an "apprentice" to an older woman. Young men and women in that region moved away from home as teenagers even if their parents had a good farm. They went away to work for others, mostly with farmers just like their parents until they self got married after some 10 years of working for other families. An interesting way of dealing with teenagers I think. Women were as I said about 23, and the men they married where about 25 years old on averages. And on average my ancestors lived to be 68-70 years old (based on data from 1700-1900). My mothers paternal grandmothers line of women should have lived pretty much the same life where they lived, (here in Scandinavia it was very much about cows, goats and sheep to survive) but probably more on the margin, so every generation tried to find a better place for themselves and their children I imagine. So matches are more scattered in that case. And fewer so far. Maybe that line had mostly boys, or they lived a harder life with fewer surviving daughters. I hope you get some more matches to find out more about your line.

Thank you for clarification, Margareta ;). I missed your answer this time.

Hi Mariana! I am H2b as well