About us
* PROJECT GOALS *
This Project has the exciting opportunity to promote research and development of our haplogroup. An ongoing goal of our project is to identify and track the branches of Haplogroup I as more and more subclades come to light. We are interested in discoveries about the subclades' origins, migratory paths, histories, and ages. Over the years, our project has contributed significantly to subclade identification and potential research by assisting hundreds of our members with novel variants to submit their mtDNA data to GenBank (a division of the National Center for Biotechnology Information /NCBI), which makes the data available to researchers worldwide.
We also delight in helping project members discover common ancestors they share with fellow project members or mtDNA matches. In 2023, I (Martha Hicks) noticed that two project members in the same small subclade both had maternal ancestry from Long Island. I assisted in researching their direct maternal lines, and it was exciting to discover that they were descendants of sisters born in the mid-1600s. Then, remarkably, about six months later a member in the same subclade joined the project, and he was also a descendant of one of the sisters! The shared geographical data is what led to the discoveries.
Here are ways that you can promote the study of your subclade:
1. If known, enter the country of origin of your direct maternal line in your FTDNA account settings. If you need assistance, email me (Martha) or see instructions for entering "Most Distant Ancestor" on the project's "Background" page.
If you are able to enter the country of origin for your direct maternal ancestor, that country's flag will appear in association with your subclade on the Mitotree --along with flags for countries entered by others in your subclade. This data is valuable for the study of your subclade. The location of your direct maternal ancestor is also helpful when seeking genealogical connections with matches.
2. If you have not yet done so, please consider upgrading to the mtFull-Sequence test. The discovery of subclades can only take place as more people get full mtDNA testing. This test will also equip you to determine your most refined subclade both now and in the future as more refined downstream subclades are identified. The test will also provide you with a more meaningful list of mtDNA matches.
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Martha Jane (Schliesser) Hicks - 2013-2025
mtDNA Haplogroup I Project: Goals by Martha Jane (Schliesser) Hicks is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.