Is your direct maternal line over 9 generations?

Question

Can you trace your direct maternal line (your mother's, mother's, mother's, etc., mother) back ten generations or more?

If so, would you consider taking a mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) test?  There are only about 12 people in WikiTree who have mtDNA tested and can go back over 9 generations on their direct maternal line. See:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:WikiTree_Tops#Most_number_of_generations_in_a_direct_maternal_line_which_has_been_mtDNA_tested

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I have ten starting with my mother, thanks to WikiTree collaboration. I know nothing about being tested for mitochondrial dna, but I do find the idea intriguing.

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Hello Susan,

You have tested with 23andMe which revealed your mtDNA haplogroup.  On your DNA Tests page select that you took an "Other mtDNA" and in the haplogroup field enter your mtDNA haplogroup as reported by 23andMe.  Is your haplogroup any more precise than just H (e.g. H1a2b etc.?) In the Note field enter that you tested with 23andMe and the approximate date you tested.  Then within 24 hours your mtDNA haplogroup will automatically be associated with your direct maternal line (in your case back 10 generations and on the daughters of the daughters of the daughters as far as they come done to the present).

Sincerely, Peter

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(... and on any sons of those daughters or direct maternal line ancestors).

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Thank you Peter and Rick. Everything went smoothly until the end when I received an error message telling me to "share this url for your compact family tree with your dna test matches:" (a link to my compact tree)

There are no instructions on how to do this and no link. I've tried everything I can think of. The information is already on my compact tree.

Any further help will be appreciated.

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Hello Susan,

Within 24 hours WikiTree will automatically associate your mtDNA information with everyone in your direct maternal line.  

23andMe only tested some of your mtDNA (which was only enough to determine you belong to haplogroup H).  Unfortunately in your case you belong to the most common mtDNA haplogroup found in Europe.  If you take a full sequence mtDNA test from FTDNA then you may discover you belong to subclade (branch of descent) which is less common.  Then you would want to share (with your full sequence mtDNA matches) your direct maternal line back to your earliest known direct maternal line ancestor.

Your direct maternal line can be found at

https://www.wikitree.com/treewidget/Wilson-31949/88

Sharing your “Compact Ancestral Tree” should be reserved for your autosomal DNA matches.  If you share all branches of your ancestry with your mtDNA matches then some of them may be confused that your shared mtDNA match is due to shared ancestry which is not your direct maternal line.

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Sadly my maternal line only goes back 6 generations.

But then again, it does not include myself or my son so maybe it's 8 generations...

My mother is private because she is still living.....

My son is not on wikitree because he is still a teenager.

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You might help someone else (like me) who had one of those ancestors whose mother died and we can't find her name in a paper trail.  She was then adopted.

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Everything seems to have worked out the way it should, with notification on the profile of each of the grandmothers, going back to Elizabeth Isabell Freeman Wooley, 1628- 1720. Pretty cool, huh? Thanks everyone for guidance and help. I'm now thinking about the full sequence testing.

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My maternal line goes back 14 generations. I haven't personally tested my mtDNA, but my mom's maternal cousin did the mtDNA test through FTDNA, so my result should be the same. I don't know if that should count or not, so I haven't entered it into wikitree. The cousin's mtDNA result is V16; my 23AndMe result is V, which seems to corroborate the V16. I just added some maternal grandparents to wikitree to fill out my 14 generations.

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Hello Jodi,

Congratulations! Exceedingly few people know 14 generations of their direct maternal line.  Is your cousin willing to join WikiTree and add their mtDNA information? 

On your DNA Tests page select that you took an "Other mtDNA" and in the haplogroup field enter your mtDNA haplogroup as reported by 23andMe. If your cousin is not willing to join WikiTree then in the Note field enter that you tested with 23andMe and the approximate date you tested. You may add that your direct maternal line cousin mtDNA is reported V16.   

Answer 1

1 [[Hunter-3750|Hunter-3750]]
2 Tough-38

3 Muir-747

4 Wilson-14047

5 Fullarton-5

6 Macfie-4

7 Blaikie-9

8 Livng mother

9 Me and living sister

10        Living Daughter Doctor

11        Young daughter (c.1 year old)

Answer 2

Looks like I get back to 6 generations before hitting a Brick Wall. :(

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New information: 9 Generations :)

Loretta C. Corbin formerly Leger (1950s- ) 
 daughter of Doris R. King (1920s - unknown) 
    daughter of Elia Belle Burrows (01 Aug 1889 - 16 Sep 1970) 
      daughter of Lettie Belle Ely (17 Jan 1870 - 25 Jul 1957) 
        daughter of Susan Ann Childers (30 Jun 1834 - 05 Feb 1915) 
          daughter of Elizabeth Allgood (Jan 1809 - 1853) 
            daughter of Mary Jane Blake (abt 1775 - abt 1852) 
              daughter of Mary Lee Toney (abt 1750 - abt 1800) 
                daughter of Elizabeth Harris (14 May 1707 - 1800) 
                  daughter of Mary Giles (abt 1675 - abt 1757)

Answer 3

I have 10 generations and have my mtDNA results posted. I was able to connect with a 7th cousin once removed that is an exact match on FTDNA. Our MRCA is my 7th GGrandmother.

Answer 4

I am reasonably DNA certain back 7 generations (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pelletier-2242) based on many Ancestry Autosomal throughlines and 12 generations (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Viot-1) based on paper.  I also had run into an exact mt match on some other site that believed he also traced back to Barbe Viot, with earlier common maternal ancestor.  U4c2a via the link to FTDNA in my profile.

My sister has two more, but I have no documents back to 

Simone Louvrier

1580–

BIRTH ABT. 1580 • Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France

DEATH Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France

11th great-grandmother

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Mitosearch is no longer open for new files.  I can send you the FASTA file...

Extra mutations on kit 874993: 

315.1C

522.1A

522.2C

A11582G

T15530C

C16519T

Also my two nieces extend the line - assuming their mothers really are my sisters :).   One of them (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Clark-45216) is a known full sister match with a daughter, so she has one more generation than I do.  The other is untested.   My sister Melissa https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Clark-45264 shares my tree and is a known match, but with no children.