Finding Linda's Paternal Mt-DNA

[Joseph Puentes <makas@...>]

[I made a mistake and misread what Linda said so the error corrected 
starts after the double lines]
Linda R Romero wrote:

> Ed, Joseph:  I'm afraid I haven't figured out my haplogroup.  I do  
> not have my fathers Y-DNA, that's why I need my brother's  
> cooperation. He and I have the same parents. I only have my mtDNA and  
> my mother is not Spanish.  I also have 3 half brothers, but since  
> their mother's are not the same as mine, I haven't bothered to ask  
> them.  My father's sister is dead so I have no mtDNA on my father's  
> side.  A total shame.
[NOTE: I wrote this and then carefully re-read the message. . .i see 
where Linda said her fathers sister didn't have any natural children. So 
disregard the application of the following. I still left it in because I 
can still make another point on finding her Mt-DNA, but now it will be 
much more of a challenge]
anyone please jump in and correct me if I'm wrong.

through the male you can test for Y-DNA and it is passed on to his male 
chilcren and to his male grandchildren and to his male g-grandchildren, etc
though the male you can test for Mt-DNA but it is not passed on to his 
children
through the female you can test for the Mt-DNA and it is passed on to 
her children and to her female grandchildren etc, but not to her male 
grandchildren.
all that being said it is not necessary to have your father's sister be 
alive to get the Mt-DNA for your father's mother. All you need is any of 
the children from your fathers sister to test for their Mt-DNA which 
will go back to the comon mother of the sister or mom of your father. If 
none of the children are still living then you need to find any of the 
grand daughters of the sister since the grandson's won't have carried 
that line of Mt-DNA but will have their own mother's Mt-DNA. if none of 
the grand daughters are alive then you need to find great grand 
daughters. So if any of these are still alive there is hope.
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the challenging part: dig in deeply and start hunting for living 
relatives for your genealogy lines that you haven't known before. For 
example. Did your paternal grandmother have any sisters? if so then you 
would need to find out who they married and see if you can find that 
family unit in the hopes that some of the sisters grand or great grand 
or great great grand daughters are to be found (much more challenging 
since the name might have changed with each generation) Or Did your 
paternal great grand mother have any sisters? Same challenge to find 
living relatives. Or did the great great grandmother have any sisters?
Did I get this right. Its confusing but I think I'm right that you would 
have to start hunting for living relatives that you don't know.
Thats where getting all the oral history and finding places where 
relatives might live are and then start calling all the people in the 
phone book for that place with those surnames telling them you might be 
related and if their relatives came from a specific geographical location.
By making cold calls like that I've found 5 lost branches of the family 
and with each branch the family grew from about a few hundred known 
cousins and tio/tia's to many thousands. Its amazing.
So if the Mt-DNA is important to you, it might not seem so now but your 
children will appreaciate your efforts because the hunt for that Mt-DNA 
will be made increasingly harder with every generation that passes. You 
have to decide: will I find it or NOT!
Well I guess you weren't bargaining for a speech... so I'll stop.

joseph

> All my cousins are from his brother, Rosendo.   
> His sister adopted her only child.  We called her "Blondie" because  
> of her obvious Anglo heritage.  I am shmit out of luck (as far as I  
> can figure) for mtDNA for my Spanish side.
> Linda Romero
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