elghund
Banned
- Messages
- 167
- Reaction score
- 27
- Points
- 28
- Ethnic group
- Appalachian American
- Y-DNA haplogroup
- R1b1b2a1a
- mtDNA haplogroup
- J1c1
On one of my family lines, there runs the mtDNA haplogroup R1A (not to be confused with the y-DNA R1A). This particular line is documented to the late 1700s Virginia where the documentation finally runs out. From my reading mtDNA R1a occurs at low frequencies in parts of India, the Caucasus and Russia and Poland. Although there was a few East Indians in the colonies they were generally single men and few in number. I could find only one case of where a woman came from East India. The Caucasus, Russia and Poland also seem like unlikely sources for mtDNA is colonial Virginia. Again, the very few settlers from these areas also tended to be single men.
Can I assume one of the above regions to be the origin of mtDNA R1a in my family, given that it is in colonial Virginia, or does this mtDNA exist at low frequencies throughout Europe? I can't find any data for mtDNA R1A frequencies. The search is complicated by the very common y-DNA haplogroup R1a.
Can I assume one of the above regions to be the origin of mtDNA R1a in my family, given that it is in colonial Virginia, or does this mtDNA exist at low frequencies throughout Europe? I can't find any data for mtDNA R1A frequencies. The search is complicated by the very common y-DNA haplogroup R1a.