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From: "Lowe DNA" <>
Subject: FW: [DNA] detailed mtDNA diagrams [and Y comparison]
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 12:34:59 -0600


Anne....

Thanks for the answers...

"you keep asking this question and I keep trying to answer it in slightly
different ways, apparently not in a satisfying manner. I went back to the
archives to see what I posted one time, and I found a message from August
(see URL below). I see that Bonnie also answered you back in August with
links to her website, which has the mtDNA diagram in the style you favor,
one like the YCC vertical hierarchical tree outline.

Like many folks, I am a visual person and like everything to fit neatly into
categories with diagrams.....and a mtDNA test with yadda yadda yadda which
someone says originates in East Yonkers 40K years ago makes no
sense....however if a hierarchical chart like the one Bonnie kindly pointed
to (for the second time as you noted and my error) is found and the
placement of my mtDNA on that chart is apparent, then it is much easier to
understand where and how my mtDNA base pairs fit into the overall scheme of
things... And I would bet many other folks appreciate seeing also...

However I do not see "16,569 bases" on this mtDNA diagram...only about 102
if you don't count the chimps and bonobos which interesting that they are
included here...where are the other 16,468 ?

http://www.ancientrootsresearch.com/human_family_trees.htm#mtDNA

Most amateur genealogists, myself included, review emails here to learn how
to pick up ideas to use as tools for our
research...and DNA is the most promising in the last millennia....One of the
items we use to interest folks to participate in SURNAME studies are visual
diagrams that display complex and correlated interconnections that simplify
linear relationships of the different arrangements of mtDNA and SNP/STR base
pairs...The second thing that diagrams provide is the ability to visualize
how and where your mtDNA or STP/STR lineage originated and how you fit into
the human tree...And the more complex the hierarchical tree outward branches
become the easier it is to "key out", identify our ancestry to the outermost
twig of one of those branches..... And for genealogists this is most
satisfying

So as a visual person and having roots in Missouri...it is better that you
"show me" a diagram.....and again hope that I read it the "first time
thru"......

Thanks again Bonnie and Anne...

Bill



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