Husband in hospital

Last Sunday night I had to call an ambulance to take my husband to hospital. Three days later and he is improving and finally out of ICU.

My audience

My audience always surprises me even if it is bots as some people have said. In the past couple of hours I have had over 400 hits by people living in Russia. It certainly isn't my political views that they are looking at as I rarely publish political posts. It is H11 haplogroup. It shows just how small the world really is. My ancient maternal line finds its resting spot in Ayrshire/Argyllshire Scotland and probably has been there for 8000 years or more but H11 is one of those smaller H haplogroups that has resting spots in specific areas of the world. Likely H11 wintered in the Ice Refuge known as Ukraina and located in the Ossettia/Georgia/Ukraine area from 15 to 20 thousand years ago. From there H11 went mostly westward with some making the great trek through the Scandinavian Peninsula and then across to Scotland and Ireland. Another migration crossed through Poland into Germany, the Netherlands, France and into southern England and perhaps also to Ireland. Another arm of migration went southward into Hungary moving towards Greece and can also be found in Spain. The Spanish arm may have also come south from France. One group remained where they were expanding outward into Russia. But our numbers are small; about 1.5% of H haplogroup but that still numbers in the millions! My H11 project at FT DNA includes quite a few people who live in Russia. I publish an H11 Newsletter quarterly and the latest was just published on the FT DNA website as well as my blog.

H11 Newsletter, Volume 2 Issue 3

H11 Newsletter

Table of Contents

1.   FT DNA Project

2.   Project Statistics

3.   Phylotree

4.   Changes in how a project administrator can view your results

1.   FT DNA Project:

There are now 303 members in our H11 project. Full sequence results are completed on 264 members of the group. Interestingly 212 members of this group have also done Family Finder. Unfortunately it is not possible to visually look at the Family Finder results as that would compromise the privacy of individuals. However, you can look at your matches in Family Finder. 

2.   Project Statistics (yDNA statistics removed):

Combined GEDCOMs Uploaded	47
DISTINCT mtDNA Haplogroups	16
Family Finder	212
Genographic 2.0 Transfers	19
Maternal Ancestor Information	259
mtDNA	275
mtDNA Full Sequence	264
mtDNA Plus	272
mtDNA Subgroups	22
Total Members	303
Unreturned Kits	11

3.   The latest release of the phylotree used by FT DNA was dated 18 Feb 2016:

 

H11 breakdown in the PhyloTree mt:

Within the study group we have members in every sub-haplogroup except H11a5 (and it can be seen in the chart above that the mutation C15040T marks this subgrouping). 

http://www.phylotree.org/tree/R0.htm *

*van Oven M, Kayser M. 2009. Updated comprehensive phylogenetic tree of global human mitochondrial DNA variation. Hum Mutat 30(2):E386-E394. http://www.phylotree.org.

doi:10.1002/humu.20921

4.   Changes in how a project administrator can view your results

FT DNA has upgraded their access to accounts so that the default is Group Access only. If you wish to have your results included in the project then you must grant Limited Access to the Administrator. In the next newsletter I would like to again publish a list of the subclades with reference to the number of members in each of the subclades. I have in some cases further subdivided a subclade on the basis of results.

Any submissions to this newsletter can be submitted to Elizabeth Kipp (kippeeb@rogers.com).