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Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)

Mitochondrial DNA testing (mtDNA) is becoming more popular. Unlike Surname DNA testing, which gives you information only on your paternal side (father's father), mtDNA gives you information on your maternal side (mother's mother). Maternal ancestry is much more difficult to research than the paternal side, since women traditionally change their names upon marriage. mtDNA testing, however, can unlock many of these dead ends to new research.  A public database has been established for mtDNA results, greatly increasing the probability that you can find matches.  It's called mitosearch

We are still in the early stages of unlocking knowledge about long-term genetic ancestry (haplogroup), but tools are quickly becoming available as empirical knowledge builds up. We plan to help you find and use those tools as they are created. Do you want to know if your family originally came from Scandinavia 2,000 years ago? The Zulu as opposed to the Botswanan people? DNA testing is the way to find out.  FTDNA now provides a mtDNA Results Tutorial, which is in Q&A format.

 

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