U6 mtDNA

Hi Manuel, my name is Sharon and I am U6d1. Do you have your ancestors listed on the FTDNA site?

my grandmother was born in the Azores

Florinda Medeiros was her name....her mother was Maria Da Estrella

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

Hey Edward. It all depends on what you're looking for and how close the genetic distance of the matches. You won't know until you test. BTW, I'm a fellow U6a3e, born in Greece, with matches originating from Portugal.

Okay my mother haplogroup u6 a3

Hi Edward. Where were your paternal grandmother´ female line ancestors from in Portugal? My father's maternal grandmother was born in Porto, Portugal, and she was (because my father - in behalf of whom I am writing - is) U6a3e. I think it would be beneficial to investigate further which subhaplogroup within U6a your grandmother belongs to. Tiago

Olá, Tiago. Obrigado pela sua mensagem. A ancestral mais distante na linha materna directa da minha avó seria a sua bisavó Jacinta Maria Castilho, sobre a qual não consegui descobrir, absolutamente, nada. Ela faleceu em 1887, época em que só havia os registos paroquiais, no Brasil. Essa Jacinta teve 4 ou 5 filhos com o mesmo homem. Mas, por um motivo que desconheço, jamais foram casados. A família da minha avó era toda radicada em Paranaguá e Antonina, litoral do Estado do Paraná, Sul do Brasil. A maioria dos "matches" da minha avó tem origem nos Açores. Através de documentos, consegui descobrir que ela, de facto, tem ancestrais dos Açores e Madeira. Mas, infelizmente, nada sei sobre a família da tal Jacinta Castilho, ancestral da qual minha avó paterna herdou o haplogrupo U6a (possivelmente U6a3e).

Stella, u6a3c Is found In Ghana

Hello Christopher - according to 23&me I'm U6a3. I have just ordered the full mt upgrade here at FTNDA to find out more about it. My mother is an Elmore born in GA, her mother a Mathews also from Georgia, her mother a Dean born 1912 in GA, her mother a Cousins born 1874 in Georgia, her mother a Rosser born 1850 in Georgia and her mother a Phillips born 1838 (place unknown). All of these have been confirmed via autosomal DNA 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

oops..so as I was reading I was quite astonished to see one of the individuals was a U6a1a1. I can't remember if the last 2 digits are the same as mine but I thought of you and how you have been studying this and might be interested in the links to two founding Acadian sisters.

The acadian sisters were U6a7a1a, not U6a1a1.

I'm u6a7a1b

My mum is u63a

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?