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Haplogroup/Haplotree K1a4a1

The following information came from my 23 and Me Personal Page. It gives us an idea of our K1a4a1 haplogroup migration throughout our antroplogical migrational history over the past 180,000 years. Your haplogroup is determined by your mitochondrial DNA. Each generation, mothers pass down copies of their mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) to their children. …

Tribes

Sub-Grouping  Critera All members of our Project belong to Haplogroup T2b5a, so we all match one another. However, some members match closer than others. That is what sub-grouping is about.  We want to know who is a closer match and who is a more distant match. When we match someone …

Lineages of T2b5a Project Members

Tribe Alpha BROWNING Generation 1- Project Member Generation 2-Louise Barnette, deceased-married Charles FitzGerald McKiever, deceased. They only had one son and one daughter, so only the daughter would have been able to pass along her T2b5a mt-dna to her sons and daughters. Generation 3-Hilda Finch bon 1891 Atlanta, Fulton County, …

Surprise Helps For Two Project Members

As most of you know I administer several FTDNA Projects (Barnett, Barney, Dodson, Finch, Charles County, Maryland, The Dallas Genealogical Society DNA Interest Group and the K1a4ba Mitochondrial Virginia, New England, and Europe Project ) Recently, I had two surprising and interesting incidents involving autosomal and Y-DNA in one of …

A Bennett Line in Coventry RI

Bennett and Lawrence-Wait Dutchess Co NY and Coventry, Rhode Island Our Mtdna match Rogers’ ancestry Elizabeth Bennett 1798-1833 of Coventry, Rhode Island was the wife of Weaver Carr. There are a number of possibilities for her ancestry, but, none, so far, have listed a daughter named Elizabeth. New UPDATE: (March …

Townsend Horton and family Research

Timeline for Townsend Horton 1740- 25 April Townsend Born Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia Births for Townsend’s siblings 1755-25 January Father, Snowden/Snowdall Horton Died Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia. There is no record of Townsend’s mother, Sarah so, she apparently was still living. According to the Overwharton Parish Register, Townsend …

Steelman Lineage-Martha/Patty Waite

  Ancestry of Steelman Generation 2 Theodora Carolina Rundell Born 1906    Died 1989 Married Paul Torgny Emanuel Berglund Born 1906 MA Died 1982 FL   Generation 3 Lina Adelle Rupert Born 1872 PA Died 1936 MA Married Charles Rundell Born 1868 PA Died 1948 CT   Generation 4 Malvina Rushmore …

New Project Naming Criteria

We recently had a new member to our K1a4a1a2 Project. This new member does not match ANY of those previously in the project. Not in the Genetic Distance category or in the HVR1 or HVR 2 category. So, what do I do? I had to think about it. What I decided to …

Westlund (Sweden) Brita Nilsdotter b 1619 Dalarna

Gen 1 Märta Kristina Wallin  b 1912 d 1997  Gen 2 Brita Kristina Nilsdotter b. 21 Oct 1873 – Näset, Jamtland County 19 May 1915 -Valla, Håsjö Mar 2 Jonas Petter Wallin b. 21 Aug 1860 – ???  d. 30 Jul 1971 – Valla, Håsjö who is father of Marta Also a Mar 1 Nils Johan Nilsson …