I am making slow progress through Diahan Southard’s mtDNA for Genealogy Course. I have finally gotten to the point where I have identified the matches provided for my mitochodrial DNA and have filtered out that are not the best use of my time to delve deaper into possible connections. Thank you #YourDNAGuide #DiahanSouthard for making this process easy to understand and for the explanations of which of the matches I can filter out and which ones I should explore.

I find that I really have no comlete match. The farthest I can guarantee to find out Most Recent Common Ancestor is 200 CE. This is really a lot closer that the 3550 BCE that I can establish just by haplogroup T2f8a when the mitotree was ewxpanded and shifted me into T2f8a1. Now to hope someone tests and falls into the F1341220 haplotype. (cool dropping of DNA terms!).

But, I do have 8 matches to the T2f8a1 level that have posted family tree pedigree charts that go back more than one generation and are not all tagged PRIVATE!

I still have a bit more work in the class that will give me better insight on how to make use of the 8 matches I have isolated. At the same time, I am periodically checkng for new matches on my account – now that I have an idea of what to do with them.