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As Per Blaine Bettinger in charter One of his explaination of dna testing.

Although genetic genealogy is an informative addition to anyone’s family tree,  it is not without limitations,

 Anyone who is thinking about buying a genetic genealogy test or are expecting results  should be aware of the following:

 

1. The results of a genetic genealogy test do not include a family tree.  DNA alone cannot tell a person who their great-grandfather  was, or what Italian village their great-great grandfather came from.  Genetic genealogy is an addition to traditional genealogical research, not a replacement.

2.  Although Y-DNA and mtDNA can be used to determine the relatedness of individuals, it cannot directly determine the degree of relationship. For example, an mtDNA test might be used to finally determine whether two women are maternally descended from one individual, as your traditional research has suggested. However, the results will not be able to determine whether the women are first cousins, third cousins, or fifth cousins once removed.


What does your Halpo group tell you?


From article in The wall street Journal --May 1, 2015 by Matt Ridley

Geneticists studying the genes of people alive today have leaned toward theories based on “serial founder effects” rather than on mass migrations. The idea is that while most people stayed put, small groups of farmers would have moved short distances and started new colonies, which would then have expanded. This would account for the fact that the further from Africa a population lies, the lower is its genetic diversity: The populations had been through a series of genetic bottlenecks caused by small numbers of founders.

The study of ancient DNA has challenged this view. We now know that mass migrations occurred repeatedly, overwhelming natives while absorbing some of their genes. In a study published in 2009 in the journal Science, analysis of ancient DNA by Joachim Burger and Barbara Bramanti of Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, and Mark Thomas at University College London, showed that the first farmers of central Europe could not have been descended solely from their hunter-gatherer forerunners.

In response to such research and to their own findings, Joseph Pickrell of Columbia University and David Reich of Harvard University argue that “major upheavals” of human population have been “overwriting” the genetic history of the past 50,000 years. The result, they say, is that “present-day inhabitants of many places in the world are rarely related in a simple manner to the more ancient peoples of the same region.” In short, we are none of us natives or purebred.

Basically this is telling you that a haplo type can not tell you what country in Europe that your family came from, because Europe is a melting pot of differenct peoples.