DGS DNA SIG – mtDNA

Hello Everyone,

Our very own Mic Barnette is presenting a program for the Dallas Genealogical Society DNA Special Interest Group this Thursday. Everyone is invited to attend either in person or virtually.

For those that don’t know, we have a CCGS DNA project for male and female testers. See our project here

https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/collin-county-genealogical-society/dna-results

Mic Barnette is the DGS Project administrator.

If you have not taken a mt-DNA test, I suggest you consider doing so.

If you have taken a mt-DNA test, fantastic. You are in for some great surprises.

I will be presenting a talk:  mt-DNA Updated 2025- It’s A Game changer!

for the Dallas Public Library and the Dallas Genealogical Society DNA Special Interest Group:

Thursday May 15 at 6 PM (Central) in Room 6 D on the 6^th floor of the Dallas Public Library 1515 Young Street Dallas Texas 75201.

The talk may also be viewed virtually by clicking on the “Join the Call” button at following link:  https://dallasgenealogy.org/event/dna-special-interest-group-47/

It is not scheduled to be recorded.

The talk will discuss mt-DNA for genealogy and address the new changes in the results upgrade

FTDNA and the WikiTree Mito-Y team have seriously upgraded the mt-DNA Haplotree and added clustering to your results. In response, I have updated the two mt-DNA projects I administer. 

You can see the Public Viewable Results pages for each Project at:

See the T2b5a mt-Haplogroup Results Page at : https://www.familytreedna.com/public/T2b5amtDNAHaplogroup?iframe=mtresults

See the K1a4a1b2 VA-New England-Europe Project Public Results Page at: https://www.familytreedna.com/public/K1a4a1b2VA-NewEngland-Europe?iframe=mtresults

You can also see both the Project websites that have not yet been updated at :https://micsxchromosome.micbarnette.com/mt-dna-k1a4a1a2-haplogroup-project/

The Results Page listed above show:

1) Tester’s Kit Number

2) Surname of tester

3) The mutations at HVR-1 and HVR-2

4) Not viewable on the Public Results Pages but viewable on one’s own Personal Profile pages:

a) Legacy Haplogroup-the old haplogroup-(Called Legacy)  There is a badge on your personal page reflecting this Haplogroup

b) Mitotree Haplogroup- the new haplogroup (called Beta) – There is a badge on your personal page reflecting this Haplogroup

c) The Public Results Chart also does not show the new F-Cluster Group number but it is on your own personal page assuming you have taken the Full Mt-DNA test.

d) The new Discover Results are also only on your own personal page.

If you are in one of the other (Y-DNA and geographical) Projects I administer, there is a mt-DNA Results Page for that project as well. Again, assuming you have taken a Full mt-DNA test look at you own matches and all the tools on your own personal page and see how you and your matches connect.