U6 mtDNA

I am U6a7a1 and have exact matches in UK, US, Algeria...

I'm U6a7a1a, which is called the "Acadian cluster". The recent origin traces back to two Acadian Lejeune sisters, originating from France. Their mother likely carried a unique mutation that her daughters brought to the New World. The whole U6 subclade has origins in iberomaurusian populations in North Africa some thousands of years ago, with matches to native populations in the Canary Islands, but the U6a7 is a predominantly European clade. U6a7a1b has links to Sephardic jeweish populations. U6a7a1 doesn't have specific geographical or ethnic origins, but current phylogeny places it at 4700 yo. For comparison, the Acadian Cluster is only 500yo, and the U6a1 subclade goes as far as 18,600yo. What is your oldest known maternal ancestor?

Me :)

I am acadian, I 'am also U6a7a1, my daughter as well ;) not confirmed U6a7a1a or b. I have ancestors in Scotland, Wales, France, Brittany, Italy, Morocco, etc. I found a 2nd cousin in Algeria and I have to say etc. I'm wondering if our ancestor of the Acadian cluster really arrived in the mi 1600's. Or was she a descendant of ealier visitors. Just romantic I suppose.

Greece was a main destination for the Sephardic diaspora out of Spain and Portugal in the 16th C.

I've managed to trace back this line to approx 1800 where the surname was Saldaci, which I believe is a Spanish family name

My closest matches had ancestors from the British Isles (Scotland, Ireland and England). My closest match is one genetic distance from me.

I am also U6a3b. My mothers family is from Galicia in Northwest Spain. It is supposed to be more common among certain North African Berbers but recently I found that there is certainly a presence all along the western Atlantic fringe including Ireland and Western Great Britain up to Scotland. This truly is a mystery. Could it be a marker of the megalithic peoples that inhabited that whole area long ago?

The PBS series Poldark involves the tin and copper mines in Cornwall. Those deposits were known in the Bronze Age. The Phoenicians and Carthaginians probably mined them. That may provide one explanation as to how U6A3b arrived in the British Isles. Cheddar Man's mtdna was U5b1 and dates to the Mesolithic Era. Recent publications show that he was likely dark skinned.

As of today, I have 13 matches of which two are exact, five are 1 genetic distance. five are two genetic distances and 1 is three genetic distances. I have another match in 23andMe who shares the same known common ancestor as one of my exact matches.

Greetings, my haplogroup is U6a3f2. I have cousins in Nigeria, near the border with Cameroon, who are U6a5. My great grandmother's maiden name was Reeder.

Shalum, Christophe and Brown, My name is Marsha Chidinma Sampon I am the administrator of my 96 y/o paternal African American aunt's account. Her haplogroup is U6a3f with these ethnicity estimates Ethnicity Estimate, Locations are Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida Cameroon, Congo, & Southern Bantu Peoples 63% Benin/Togo 15% Mali 8% England, Wales & Northwestern Europe 6% Africa South-Central Hunter-Gatherers 3% Ivory Coast/Ghana 2% Nigeria 2% France1% Some of her surnames are Richardson, White, Bell, Carter, Jones, Roundtree, Smith, Gray, Haywood, Bythewood, Burley, Rucker, Leonard, Sampson

Marsha Gillam.... Jessica Isioma Little here. We spoke about our U6a3f2 mtDNA not long ago. My father's surname was Brown.

Hello Jessica, I discovered from Gedmatch.Com "Are Your Parents Related" tool that my parents were related which was confirmed by Professional genealogist CeCe Moore. She stated, that my parents were distant cousins who shared great-great-great-grandparents. Both sides go back to North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, Virginia and Georgia. I have browns on my father side and a grandfather(Henry Brown, aka Bythewood)

Hi Linda, My maternal line is U6d3a and I have traced it back to the early 1600 in Spain, in the Mediterranean province of Murcia. It is considered to be North African Berber. My oldest surnames are : Manuel and García. My only match, at 3 generations distance is from the area of Bragança, in Portugal. It could come from Iberian Moriscos (muslims), or there is a possibility that would be of Sephardic descent. I got access to some recent MTDNA test of people that claim Sephardic background in Portugal, and there was one U6d from "Argonzuelos" (close to Bragança, North of Portugal), but only one: there are other subclades of U6 that appear more frequently as Sephardic. This is a scientific site but has very specific information on U6: https://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2148-14-109

Hi Alejandra. I am facing a similar dilema. As I wrote before U6a3b usually appears in mainstream as Berber, so it would make sense it mat be a signature of Morisco origine, but my mothers family traces theirs ancestry to an area that had a strong Sephardic imprint. Also there are still cultural aspects in my family that show a strong correlations to Sephardic crypto jewish traits. My Mom for example has issues with mirrors being around when a family member passes away. It happened this summer when my aunt died.

Bonares - Huelva (Soa

spain

Manuel, do you have Medeiros, Estrella/Cabral, or Ermelinda in your ancestral surnames?

No