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From: "steven perkins" <>
Subject: Re: Medieval matrilineals - longest matrilineals
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 23:18:36 -0500
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On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Diana Gale Matthiesen
<> wrote:
> Of the top of my head, I don't know. There are some famous historical people
> whose mtDNA is known:
> http://www.isogg.org/famousdna.htm
> but I don't off hand know of someone who has linked themselves to a famous
> person with mtDNA. There probably are, I just haven't researched the question.
>
> The problem with mtDNA is that the groups are often so large. You might easily
> be able to debunk a matrilineal line with a mis-match, but even a match might
> only prove you "could" be related to a huge group of women. Now, if you get an
> mtDNA-FGS, the Full Genetic Sequence of your mtDNA, it may be specific enough to
> tie down lineages, but not that many people have taken the full test. It will
> be years before we genealogists will have an mtDNA-FGS database that will be
> useful to us. And there are functional genes on your FGS that could reveal
> medical conditions, so you aren't going to find a lot of people willing to share
> that information. I had my FGS results analyzed by a geneticist and cleared for
> medical conditions before I added it to the public database at NIH:
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/viewer.fcgi?db=nuccore&id=195929290
>
> It also depends somewhat on how rare your mtDNA mutations are. As it happens, I
> have a unique set of mutations, including one that forms it's own branch on the
> mtDNA tree. However, over time there are likely to be more people tested with
> this result, so I'll stop being unique. But having a rare mtDNA haplotype (set
> of results) does make it easier for me to support my paper matrilineal line, as
> opposed to someone with a common haplotype. It's similar to the difference
> between having a common surname or a rare one. You hope your test results don't
> show you're a genetic "SMITH."
>
> Diana

Like Diana I had the FGS mtDNA test and have one FGS match. We both
end in South Carolina in the 1790s with no known documented
connection. I am in H16, probably H16b.

Steven

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