My DNA test and a map

**Brynhild** · 04-15-2009, 06:16 AM

Hael to you! I was wondering if somebody would be able to help me out in regards to reading these images I have?

I hope this map can be zoomed in on, but from what I can see in regards to my haplogroup type (which is H), they migrated from out of the Black sea port of what would be now Georgia (oh good gods! I could be Stalin's long lost relative!

) 30 000 years ago, around the Black sea and down into the Balkans, before moving through to Central and Western Europe.

For the record, I've traced my maternal ancestry to Ireland, but beyond the 1800s I don't know

She's buried in Australia so I can get hold of a death transcript - with any luck it will reveal the names of her parents and where they came from.

This is the part that I find to be particularly tricky. I will log back into FTDNA at some point, but there is only so much reading I can do. Sometimes it will take a more simplified explanation and it will fall into place for me.

Therefore, if someone could clarify my confusion

I would be very grateful!

Cheers!

**Psychonaut** · 04-15-2009, 07:36 AM

Well hello there sister! I'm no expert on mtDNA by any means, but I'd like to greet you as a fellow member of haplogroup H (I'm H4 to be specific).

**Lahtari** · 04-15-2009, 11:56 AM

H is the overwhelmingly most common mtDNA haplogroup in Europe - about half of Brits are of hg H. Not very informative by itself.

The next step would be to find out what sub-cluster you have. If there's different frequencies in different parts of Ireland you can have some probabilities of where your Irish maternal ancestor came from.