Fergus(s)on DNA Project

mtDNA Results

No results are posted here because a surname project is not a suitable place to explore your maternal origins since the surname with mtDNA generally changes every generation. A better choice is a Haplogroup Project given that everyone in such a project shares a common ancestor. Thus once your mtDNA results are it is suggested that you join a mtDNA Haplogroup Project that corresponds to your mtDNA Haplogroup. The principle advantage to joining an mtDNA Haplogroup Project is that your results are compared to everyone in that project whereas if you are in a surname project your results are compared to those same people only if they set their preferences to "I want my matches to be set against the entire database"

Family Tree DNA's website doesn't list those projects but no matter. If you access your personal page and click on the JOIN PROJECTS button on the left hand side, a long list of projects that you are eligible to join will come up that includes MT Haplogroup Projects. For example in the case of U5 and there is a huge project which at http://www.familytreedna.com/public/U5b/default.aspx

For reference sake, here is a list of all the mtDNA Haplogroup Projects: http://www.worldfamilies.net/reference_mtDNA. That same page lists geographical projects which are yet another option to consider.

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