Mic’s Mt-DNA

 

Welcome To

“In search of Mic’s

Mitochondrial-DNA Ancestors”

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(Note: As you will read I began my Mt-DNA journey based on my own Mt-DNA ancestry. Since that time Family Tree DNA has allowed me to create a Project specifically for the K1a4a1b2 Haplogroup.

As I delved into the ancestry of my matches on FTDNA I found them in Georgia, Virginia, New England, New York, Pennsylvania, England, Ireland, Germany, Norway and Sweden-among others.

So, after creating this site and then realizing I was on to something bigger, I had to backtrack and incorporate what I was finding about myself with what I was finding on my matches.

So, I created a  whole new page devoted to the K1a4a1b2 Haplogroup and those in it- my matches. You may wish to visit that page, then come back to this one. The links are in the top of this page on the navigation bar, but here it is…http://micsxchromosome.micbarnette.com/mt-dna-k1a4a1a2-haplogroup-project/

 

Roberta Estes, in her blog DNA-Explained.com , has published a series of five blogs explaining Mt_DNA. I highly suggest you may wish to subscibe to her Blog. I am always learning from her.

Below is a link to those Blogs.

AND….. as you delve into your Mt-DNA  and Your surname’s  Y-DNA research you will encounter a very important term, Genetic Distance. Roberta, in her  down to earth explainations, covered that topic, too, in another of her blogs. You can read that blog here……http://micsxchromosome.micbarnette.com/mt-dna-k1a4a1a2-haplogroup-project/

 

First, this project is an ongoing journey as I discover more about my ancestry. However, as a part of my genealogical journey tracing my family tree I had some brick walls and decided I would try to break down those walls if I could. Please come back periodically to see what new discoveries I learn. Also, if you are a descendant of any of my Mt-DNA ancestors, please contact me so we can update your line and go further back in time and resolve some of the lineages.

Mt-DNA traces ones maternal ancestry from me, to my mother, her mother, her mother, on backward in time in the female line as far back as I could do so.

Fast forward to June 2014 when I took a Mt-DNA test with Family Tree DNA. The results just sat there. I knew I had a brick wall at Nancy Cobb’s mother and I had no idea what to do to overcome the situation.

During the summer of 2019 I started working with my Mt-DNA to see if I could desolve my brick wall

The anomaly I ran into was I have always been proud of my Southern heritage and while my ancestry as far as I could trace backward was Southern there were matches to me who had New England ancestry and no Southern ancestry. So, at some time in my ancestral past someone from New England would have come South and marry into my Southern lines. Maybe the person was a Quaker or maybe she was a part of a family in a Southward migration pattern. Whatever it was I am determined to discover who she was.

There are several different types of DNA, one of which is Mitochondrial DNA (Mt-DNA). This is DNA everyone inherits from their mother. Both females and males inherit it. Females pass it along to their children, female and male. Males on the other hand do not pass it to their offspring.

To put it another way. Everyone inherits Mt-DNA from their mother. And their mother inherited it from their mother, who inherited from their mother, on back in time, generation to generation.

There are basically three levels of Mt-DNA which one inherits, there is the HVR1, then there is HVR2 and then there is the Coding Region. When one has taken a Full Mt-DNA Sequence (FMS) test they have taken a test covering all three of these regions.

Genetic Distance gives an indication of how much Mt-DNA two people share building upward from HRVR1 to HVR2 and the highest level at the Coding Region level.

Roberta Estes in her blog DNA-explained.com recently published a series of blogs totally describing Mt-DNA testing and matching and why one would wish to test. At the following link she published another blog connecting all the blogs together. I highly recommend everyone read this series so they’ll know why and what I am doing as I describe my journey tracing my Mt-DNA lineage.

Roberta Estes https://dna-explained.com/2019/09/04/mitochondrial-dna-resources-everything-you-need-to-know/

Below is a link to Roberta’s Blog series about Mt-DNA.

AND….. as you delve into your Mt-DNA  and Your surname’s  Y-DNA research you will encounter a very important term, Genetic Distance. Roberta, in her  down to earth explainations, covered that topic, too, in another of her blogs. You can read that blog here……https://dna-explained.com/2016/06/29/concepts-genetic-distance/

 

Back my personal quest:

As of October 2019 I had 63 HVR1 matches and 29 HVR2 matches. How many of them might potentially match me at a later time at Genetic Distance 0, 1, 2, or 3. I may never know unless they decide to upgrade to Full Mt-DNA Sequence (FMS).

Of my FMS (Full Mitochondrial Sequence) matches I have a total of 19 matches. I have no 0 Genetic Distance matches, 8 Genetic Distance 1 matches, 7 Genetic Distance matches and 4 Genetic Distance 3 matches.

Mic’s Mt-DNA Matches

So, who are these matches and how do we relate?

In this area I am listing my (Mic Barnette’s) Mt-DNA matches by Genetic Distance. This information is just informational. Later, down the page I will give the Lineages of each of my Mt-DNA matches. This information will be updated as fast as possible. If you can help, all assistance will be appreciated. Please contact me.

HVR1 Matches: 63 (This number includes all matches in all categories including the 19 FMS matches). Because the relationship is so far back in time on the HVR-1 and HVR-2 test we have no idea when or how we might relate therefore there is no reason to give these names unless or until they upgrade to the Full Mitochondrial Sequence test.

HVR1 and HVR2 Matches: 29 (This number includes the 19 FMS matches) Because the relationship is so far back in time on the HVR-1 and HVR-2 test we have no idea when or how we might relate therefore there is no reason to give these names unless or until they upgrade to the Full Mitochondrial Sequence test.

FMS Matches: 19 

Mic’s Matches Genetic Distance 0

Mic has no current Genetic Distance 0 Matches

Mic’s Matches Genetic Distance 1

Actually, those listed below as descending from Keziah Willis should read as descending from Leannah Horton Miller born 1760 Orange/Caswell Co, NC died about 1834 Hancock Co, GA, daughter of Townsend Horton and wife of James A Miller. They will all be updated when I get time to work on the change.

Weir                                        Keziah Willis b 1808 Hancock Co, GA

Meador                                   Keziah Willis b 1808 Hancock Co, GA

Small                                      Keziah Willis b 1808 Hancock Co, GA

Drinkwater                           Keziah Willis b 1808 Hancock Co, GA

Remmen                                 Gertrude Ferguson

Grafton                                   Not Listed

Dennis                                    Not Listed

Husk                                       Amanda Fassett Dickinson

Engstrom                                Margaret Downing Sulevan 1639-1693

 

Mic’s Matches-Genetic Distance 2

Steelman                                Patty Wait 1761-1848

Partello                                   Not Listed

Rogers                                    Mary Carr 1825-1885

Ryan                                       Not Listed

Farthing                                  James York Sr

Warman                                  Not Listed

Denton                                   Not Listed

 

Mic’s Matches- Genetic Distance 3

Rysa                                        Maria Simontytar Leist b 1774 Finland

Sorsa                                       Liisa Jaakort Hostikka 1772-1797

Wammack                               Ursula

Rheinland                                Maria Lenger (Zanker?) b 1831 Germany

The Genetic Distance 3 matches all seem to be European, possibly Finland and Germany and would be historically pretty far back to attempt tracing at this time before having researched the American matches first. So, I will leave that work for a later time. There is, however, the possibility, if these ancestral connections were in Colonial America, there might be something maybe in New Netherlands or New Sweden in the New York, Delaware, Pennsylvania region. Otherwise we might be looking for relationships in the British Isles, Europe or Scandinavia.

In all my lines, maternal as well as paternal, I have ancestors in America since 1610 in Jamestowne. I have always touted and been proud of being a Southern Colonial American. Apparently, since taking the Mt-DNA test I find I may have to eat my words.

While tracing my maternal ancestors back into the mid-1700’s in North Carolina and Virginia, I am coming up with Mt-DNA matches whose ancestry is in New England.

The challenge I am trying to overcome is discovering my bifurcated lineage matching how and where a New Englander came South to be one of my Southern ancestors. (Or did a Southerner go North?) . And part of that challenge is that in every generation a woman changes her name from her birth name to her married name.

I have traced my Maternal ancestry back in the South at least to the 1740-50 era. The stumbling block/ brick wall is Townsend Horton’s wife. He was born in 1740 Stafford County, Virginia to a Virginia family and would have married by 1760 in either Virginia or North Carolina as his first daughter was born in North Carolina.

The North Carolina-Virginia Piedmont was quickly being populated by Quakers, Baptists and other religious sects coming South from New England, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and other middle colonies. It is possible a New England family may have migrated to the middle colonies and by the 1750’s migrated further South to the Virginia-North Carolina Piedmont.

In any case, with their help, I am having to trace the lineages of each of my FMS matches as far as I can, follow the evidence and see how each of them match one another and then see how I match each of them.

I encourage my matches who have taken a partial Mt-DNA test and match me to upgrade to the FMS and hopefully, also, match me at the FMS level. If you are a potential Mt-DNA match to me, please consider taking the FMS at Family Tree DNA. They are the only company conducting this test. 

So, join me in my journey in search of my Mt-DNA ancestral lineage.

Mic’s Mt-DNA Pedigree-Generations 1-5

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Generation 1- Mic and Siblings

Generation 2 – Edna Jean McCown 1926-1991

Generation 3 – Edna Lorraine Dodson 1903-1935

Generation 4 – Mollie Lee Crawford 1879-1957

Generation 5 – Mary Jane Howell 1860-1934

 

Mic’s Mt-DNA Pedigree-Generations 6-7

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Generation 6 – Nancy Cobb 1836-1895

Generation 7 – Mic’s Brick Wall Ancestor- Sister of Keziah Willis 180+ – 1839

 

Mic’s Mt-DNA Pedigree-Generations 8-10

Generation 8 – Susannah Miller 1783?- After 1851

Generation 9- Leannah Horton 1760-After 1830

Generation 9 – Mic’s Next Brick Wall Ancestor Wife of Townsend Horton 1740+

See Townsend Horton and Family Research

Links to Quaker, Puritan, Baptist, Migrations to North Carolina

Quakers -NC pedia
 
Quakers to VA-NC
 
 
Quakers in the Carolinas
 
Quakers NE NC
 
Quaker Migrations
 
Cane Creek Monthly Meeting
 
 
Quakers in Revolutionary Carolina
 

Quakers in Rev War

https://www.nps.gov/guco/quakers-at-the-battle-of-guilford-courthouse.htm 

 

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Maps Useful to Mic’s Mt-DNA Journey

I have gone back in and tried to view these maps. I found only one map per series actually uploaded. So, I will have to go back and rescan them in the future. 

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         Pedigrees of Mic’s Genetic Distance 1 Matches By Geographical Region:

Group I- GA, Sc, NC, VA

Weir                                        Keziah Willis b 1808 Hancock Co, GA

Meador                                   Keziah Willis b 1808 Hancock Co, GA

Small                                      Keziah Willis b 1808 Hancock Co, GA

Drinkwater                           Leannah Horton b. 1760 Orange/Caswell Co, NC 

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Group II-MA, RI, NY, New England

Engstrom                               Margaret Downing Sulevan 1639-1693

This line has been taken back to the 1650’s Massachusetts

Remmen                                Gertrude Ferguson 1903-1982

This line has been extended back to the 1750’s Rhode Island

This line has been connected to the Husk pedigree

Lucy Goff 1783-1849 is a sister of Abigail Goff 1776-1836

Husk                                       Amanda Fassett Dickinson Died 1891

This line has been extended to the 1750’s Rhode Island

This line has been connected to the Remmen Pedigree

Abigail Goff 1776-1836 is a sister of Lucy Goff 1783-1849

Rogers                                    Mary Carr 1825-1885

Even though this is a Genetic Distance 2 match, this match falls right in line with some of the Genetic Distance 1 natches in that this natch, also, goes back to Coventry, Kent County, Rhode Island

Steelman                                Patty Wait 1761-1848

Patty Wait’s husband, Lawrence Oliver, was a Revolutionary Soldier and received a pension for his service. His pension recites a timeline for his life, including, much of his married life which involves Patty, his wife.

One of their sons married a woman whose maiden name was Bennett and whose ancestry can be traced back to Coventry, Kent County, Rhode Island. While this may or may not be significant in the life of Patty Waite, it does show a potential familial and origins connection with other of our MTDNA matches. A remark will be added to the Rogers Lineage

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Grafton                                   Not Listed

Dennis                                    Not Listed

Partello                                   Ancestor Not Listed

Ryan                                       Ancestor Not Listed

Farthing                                  James York Sr

Warman                                  Ancestor Not Listed

Denton                                   Ancestor Not Listed

Pedigrees of Some Mic’s  HVR1-HVR2 Matches, some of whom have taken the FMS test

McClelland (Great Brittain)  Anne Brett 1745 of Catheringtonton, Hampshire, England

Westlund (Sweden) Brita Nilsdotter b 1619 Dalarna