2004 Entries into Kerchner's MtDNA Test Results Log

Guest: Thomas E. Spencer, Jr.
Date-Time: Monday, May 03, 2004 at 19:36:06 (CDT)
Testing Company Used: FamilyTreeDNA
HVR1 MtDNA Results: 16235G, 16291T, 16357C
MtDNA Haplogroup per HVR1 Results: H
HVR2 MtDNA Test Results:
Date MtDNA Test Was Ordered: April 29, 2004
Comments: The oldest known direct line Maternal ancestor was my great great
grandmother Juliana Ellison Farrow from Hyde County, North Carolina (born Feb.
4, 1840-died May 30, 1907. I know her mother's name (Eleanor Smaw) but I don't
know her birth or death dates. I believe the family was from the British Isles. I wish
somebody would explain the meaning of my genetic mutations? Does it specify a
specific geographic location where the change took place. FamilytreeDNA is great
about explaining surname studies, but Oxford Ancestry is better at explaining
mitochodria DNA, but you have to take their tests before they'll explain a lot to you.
I could not find anyone in their free message board that had the same mutations. All
I'm sure of is that I'm a member of the Helen clan, and I had to learn that from
Oxford Ancestry. FamilytreeDNA just gives you a generic migration chart and a
general explanation of mtDNA. So, does anyone know and will anyone out there
explain the meaning of my genetic mutations? Did we all start out as L's and turn
into other haplogroups as we migrated. Help!
Email address (To use delete '-Monday-' and add @ sign in that position):
Spencer202652-Monday-msn.com
Guest: Cecelia Clancy
Guest's Website: http://home.earthlink.net/~cacst9
Date-Time: Monday, May 03, 2004 at 01:11:24 (CDT)
Testing Company Used: FTDNA
HVR1 MtDNA Results: 16069T, 16126C, 16519C
MtDNA Haplogroup per HVR1 Results: J
HVR2 MtDNA Test Results: 73G, 150T, 195C, 263G, 295T, 309.1C 315.1C, 489C
Date MtDNA Test Was Ordered: approx June 2003
Comments: My g-grandmother was a Mantak who immigrated to Pittsburgh in
1881. Many other Mantaks also came to Pgh, but many more went to Cleveland.
The Mantaks are a small ethnic groups that only in recent generations had begun to
call itself "German." They live in far eastern Slovakia, in the town of Metzenseifen
(Medzev in Slovak). There is Niedermetzensiefen (Nizny Medzev)down in the valley
and a village up on the hill called Obermetzenseifen (Visny Medzev). In the past two
centuries, these two locals have vacillated between being two municipalities and one
municipality. Metzenseifen was founded by the Mantaks in the 1300's. Before that,
they were somewhere within a hundred mile radius of the French town of Metz.
They could have been right in Metz, in the Alsace region surronding it, or in the
nearby Pfalz (Palantine - includes cities of Saarbrucken and Trier and
Kaiserslautern) regions of Germany, or in Belgium or Luxembourg or the
Netherlands. The Nantaks founders were a small group of people, but they and their
descendents have been marrying only among themselves from the 1300's till the