I had a mtDNA test after reading Professor Bryan Sykes book, The Seven Daughters of Eve, in 2002, and was told that I was a direct descendant of Chochmingwu, the name he gave to the ancestor of haplogroup C, as you know, one of the Native American haplogroups. This came as a great surprise to my sister and me, but we have always felt a great affinity to Native Americans. We do not know how we came to have this mtDNA, but we would like to know if anyone can tell us which (if any) Native American nations or tribes hove a higher percentage of haplogroup C than of the other groups.

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Clifford Tomos

Hi:
My haplo Group is C. My wife's Haplo Goup is A.
I did some independent research concerning my specific Haplo Group and I was surprised to discover sequences within HVR1 that matched my sequences to a T. There is a paper that had been the results of this study written by C. Lalueza Fox from a study of assemblages in what is now Western Cuba and the Dominican Republic. My exact HVR1 matches were coming from assemblages of the ancient Guana Atabey, aka, Guanahatabey, Ciboney, Guanajatabey. So, this discovery of mine refutes my previous notion that my mtDNA sequences might have belonged to the anceint Taino people.
In my book, Juan Ponce de Leon His New And Revised Genealogy I have included a reference document that spoke to me of a cedula real that had been issued during the year 1514. It gave license to men born of Castile the right to marry indigenous women. The cedula had been sent to Diego Colon Who lived in Santo Domingo and traveled back and forth to Cuba.
In subsequent years that followed ship loads of indigenous people were transported from Cuba abd Santo Domingo to Puerto Rico. On one of those ships my maternal ancestor must have come to Puerto Rico. Not as a slave but as a Dona who had married a Spanish individual per the cedula real of 1514.
Much later the conquistador transplanted Indigenous people from Terra Firma. These individual's descendants might comprise those who have been categorized within the Haplo groups of C2. There are many of them within my matches on Family Tree DNA. I guess Family Tree DNA doen't really know what to do with the C1 and C2 because they simply cannot get the results from the mtDNA that yields a means for classifying what tribe the C1 and C2 have come from.
Here's a URL that will take you to an article I have written on the above subject:
http://www.helium.com/items/106908-genetics-and-genealogy-a-path-to...

And here is the URL that will take you to a limited preview of my book, Juan Ponce de Leon His New And Revised Geneaolgy:
http://books.google.com/books?q=juan+ponce+de+leon+his+new+and+revi...

http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/juan-ponce-de-leon-his-new-an...

John Ayes..

Hi there,

I'm new to all this. My mtDNA is A2f1a. I was adopted and have never known any of my back ground information. So this means I have Native in me. So cool. My question is how does everyone have so much information on their ancestry? Is there further testing that I can do to find out what tribe and where this grand parent came in? Anyone with information please feel free to contact me. Cheers.