Female Line DNA Has Arrived

Direct female line DNA test has arrived. I know what your thinking what does all this mean. Il try to explain it, please bare with me as I dont really fully understand it myself.

I have found matches. This means that some people in Australia and America did a dna test which came back as Haplogroup H1be with mutations same as my dads. That means that they share a direct female ancester within 250-400 years. eg. Great G G G G G G Grandmother.

I have only scratched the surface and still have other DNA tests to come. The DNA tests along with a few years of research will help us trace the family through Ireland and Europe. It will also help me add other peoples family trees to ours.

Haplogroup

Dads maternal DNA Haplogroupe is H1be. Haplogroup H is the most common and most diverse maternal lineage in Europe approx. 40-50% of europians. Haplogroup H possesses approximately 90 basal subclades identified to date, most of which further subdivided in other subclades. The most common subclades are H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6, H7, H10, H11, H13, H14 and H20. H1 is by far the most common subclade in Europe, representing approximately than half of the H lineages in Western Europe. It is estimated that H1 arose around 22,500 years ago. H1 is divided in 65 basal subclades. The largest, H1c, has over 20 more basal subclades of its own, most with deeper ramifications. H1 is found throughout Europe, North Africa, the Levant, Anatolia, the Caucasus, and as far as Central Asia and Siberia. The highest frequencies of H1 are observed in the Iberian peninsula, south-west France and Sardinia. See map below for the concentration of H1.

H1 and H3 lineages would have been some of the most prevalent mt-haplogroups among the Megalithic cultures of Western Europe, which spanned the whole Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods, from the 5th millennium BCE until the arrival of the Proto-Celts (Y-DNA R1b) from 2200 BCE to 1800 BCE (or up to 1200 BCE in parts of Iberia). Megalithic people would have belonged essentially to Y-haplogroups I2, G2a and E1b1b, with the possible addition of J2 lineages during the Chalcolithic. From the Bronze Age, R1b male lineages replaced a large percentage of Megalithic Y-haplogroups, but female Megalithic lineages survived almost unchanged in frequency. Celtic culture was born from the fusion of Indo-European paternal lineages (R1b) with native Central and Western European maternal lineages (including H1).

The image below shows the migration of humans from its central point. "EVE"