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Subject: Re: [DNA] mtDNA Help Researching a Match
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 20:08:34 EDT

In a message dated 8/1/03 3:52:17 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
writes:

> So does that mean that if I want to try and find a connection I
> must trace the matrilinear line of the other person and
> myself? (Mothers,mother's mother etc)
>
> Do I have this right? Or do I need to research another way?
>
>

You have it right but there are a few things you need to consider. A
mitochondrial match might date back thousands of years. Unless your mother's line and
the other person's line are from the same place you are probably not related.
You might have a few million matches if everybody in the US was tested.

Use your mitochondria to get an idea where your ancestors might have lived a
few thousand years ago.

Grant Johnston

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