I have done my own complete mtDNA genome and I am a member of the subclade K1a4a1. There are only 6 other records in GenBank (complete sequences) that belong to this branch of the world mtDNA tree. Four of them are FTDNA customers.
Welcome to the group Patricia. Where did you have your complete (full) mtDNA sequence done? Did you submit it to GenBank or are you the only one to have these data? What is the origin (as far as you know it genealogically) of your maternal line? Mine stops quite early in Italy.
I had it done first at FamilyTree DNA and then at 23andme. I don't remember if I submitted it to GenBank or not. How do you go about doing that? Our son paid for both my husband and I, and we don't really understand much about it. I have been doing genealogy since I was a child. The earliest person I have on my maternal line is Elizabeth Griggs born abt 1720 probably in Virginia. Other maternal lines that I know of beyond the USA go into England.
The image representing the group is the famous mummy found in the Alps and know as Otzi... He is probably the most famous member of mtDNA haplogroup K to date. His complete mtDNA sequence was published for the first time in the November 11, 2008 issue of Current Biology.
I am K2a, just got my results. Since I'm Ashkenazi Jewish, it seems like I am most likely K2a2a. I have surnames Greenholtz and Tillim on my maternal line from Poland, Russia.
Hi, I am also a member of the subclade K1a4a1. I just had a full mtDNA sequence done at Family Tree DNA. So far, I have traced my maternal side back to Virginia in 1742. I still have a lot of studying and reading to do before I understand most of this.
I'm in the K2a group. I have German ancestry on the maternal side of my family. My Minnesota Grandmother's surname is Knutzen. Her father, born in 1852, is from Bergenhusen, Schlewswig-Holstein, Germany. GGM Knutzen, also from Bergenhusen, was a Gosch (lots of different spellings here) and her mother was a Schömer.
Hi, i'm new to genealogy, and i am K2A I am adopted and don't know anything about my family so I am using DNA to help me find some sort of closure as to the mystery of where the heck i came from!
I was wondering if anyone has ties to either North or South Carolina? That is last known place of my maternal gr grandmother and I am looking for clues. Thanks.
I am a K1a10a - also part of Bill Hurst's group. Have done all the mtDNA testing that I can at present, but at the FGS Conference in Birmingham last week I decided to do Family Finder. Then if I can only get my brothers to test their YDNA - maybe Christmas presents this year for one of them will be a testing kit.
I tested my mtDNA because I am stuck on my mother's mother's mother's mother - my mother was Lillan Foote Hanlon, my grandmother was Mary Alice Sullivan Foote, my great grandmother was Leona Pence Sullivan and my great-great grandmother was either Elizabeth or Eathelbert or both...I have no last name and have been working on it for years. Leona was born in TN (all my mother's line is from the south) but I have not a clue about Elizabeth. That is my major brick wall.
Also wanted to mention that I took Ugo's webinar on "The Power of DNA in Unlocking Family Relationships" - it was very helpful! I suggest that you all look for webinars on-line. They are very good and quite frequent! The best thing about them is that you can attend in your jammies at night - if you work during the day as I do!
Anyone else with K1a1b1b results? Trying to trace the origin of this mutation. Current working hypothesis is that the Vikings picked up a Semetic woman somewhere around the Caspian Sea and brought her to Scandanavia. The mutation probably happened there. Later female descendents were brought to Viking settlements around Scotland. Any thoughts on this hypothesis?
I just got my DNA results back. My maternal line is K1c2. Her family is from the Duncans and huddlestons and mostly coming from Scotland and England. Anyone else?
just found out my maternal line is k1a4a1 ... my mother immigrated to the US from Holland in 1950. 3 of her sisters are professional genalogists, specializing in Dutch research and they have done many generations of their family lines. It will be interesting to trace the maternal line back following their research.
Betty Christensen, my maternal line is K1a4a1a, but I do not know where the line originated. There doesn't see to be very many of us. I tested through National Geographic's Geno 2.0, and ordered FtDNA's MtDNA Plus test.
My paternal line is in in the MAV11 clade of haplogroup I1.
Ugo A. Perego
Jul 11, 2009
Patricia L. Stevens Banks
Jul 13, 2009
Ugo A. Perego
Jul 13, 2009
James Albert Hopper
Jul 13, 2009
Patricia L. Stevens Banks
Jul 13, 2009
Dusty Rhoades
Jul 14, 2009
Ugo A. Perego
Jul 19, 2009
Linda Jonas
Aug 9, 2009
Audrey L. Moran
Aug 11, 2009
A.M. Yost
Jan 26, 2010
Frances Krate
Jan 27, 2010
Christina Lehrman
Apr 28, 2010
Tom Linton
You're the only other
I know of
Sorry
I don't have a history
for my maternal grandmother
Apr 28, 2010
Daniel Goldowitz
Dec 8, 2010
Beverly Hodge Winn
Hi, I am also a member of the subclade K1a4a1. I just had a full mtDNA sequence done at Family Tree DNA. So far, I have traced my maternal side back to Virginia in 1742. I still have a lot of studying and reading to do before I understand most of this.
Jun 7, 2011
Kathleen Swineford
Christina Lehrman I am also K1c2
Jul 3, 2011
Yvonne C. Morehouse
Sep 2, 2011
Linda Durette Bailey
Oct 20, 2011
Rebecca Showerman
Hi, i'm new to genealogy, and i am K2A I am adopted and don't know anything about my family so I am using DNA to help me find some sort of closure as to the mystery of where the heck i came from!
May 2, 2012
Christina Lehrman
I was wondering if anyone has ties to either North or South Carolina? That is last known place of my maternal gr grandmother and I am looking for clues. Thanks.
Sep 3, 2012
Mary Anne Smith
Hi Everyone,
I am a K1a10a - also part of Bill Hurst's group. Have done all the mtDNA testing that I can at present, but at the FGS Conference in Birmingham last week I decided to do Family Finder. Then if I can only get my brothers to test their YDNA - maybe Christmas presents this year for one of them will be a testing kit.
I tested my mtDNA because I am stuck on my mother's mother's mother's mother - my mother was Lillan Foote Hanlon, my grandmother was Mary Alice Sullivan Foote, my great grandmother was Leona Pence Sullivan and my great-great grandmother was either Elizabeth or Eathelbert or both...I have no last name and have been working on it for years. Leona was born in TN (all my mother's line is from the south) but I have not a clue about Elizabeth. That is my major brick wall.
Sep 9, 2012
Mary Anne Smith
Also wanted to mention that I took Ugo's webinar on "The Power of DNA in Unlocking Family Relationships" - it was very helpful! I suggest that you all look for webinars on-line. They are very good and quite frequent! The best thing about them is that you can attend in your jammies at night - if you work during the day as I do!
Mary Anne
Sep 9, 2012
Sara Dzimianski
Anyone else with K1a1b1b results? Trying to trace the origin of this mutation. Current working hypothesis is that the Vikings picked up a Semetic woman somewhere around the Caspian Sea and brought her to Scandanavia. The mutation probably happened there. Later female descendents were brought to Viking settlements around Scotland. Any thoughts on this hypothesis?
Jan 31, 2013
Brian Tillman
Mar 13, 2013
Betty Christensen
just found out my maternal line is k1a4a1 ... my mother immigrated to the US from Holland in 1950. 3 of her sisters are professional genalogists, specializing in Dutch research and they have done many generations of their family lines. It will be interesting to trace the maternal line back following their research.
May 8, 2013
Laila Lindqvist Forgbert
I have mtDNA haplogroup K and and just K. I made my DNA test at Sorenson.Does anyone know anything more about just K?
May 25, 2013
Fred C. Day
Betty Christensen, my maternal line is K1a4a1a, but I do not know where the line originated. There doesn't see to be very many of us. I tested through National Geographic's Geno 2.0, and ordered FtDNA's MtDNA Plus test.
My paternal line is in in the MAV11 clade of haplogroup I1.
May 26, 2013
Anne Krysiak
I'm K1a1b2a. I can trace my mtDNA to Kassel, Germany in the mid-1800s.
Jun 19, 2013