Patterns

 

Photo by Patrick Jones. Lisbon. 17 Oct 2023.

While awaiting the mtDNA test results for a Campuzano cousin, I have been looking at matches on FamilyTreeDNA and am exploring some possible patterns. One way is to sort my mitochondrial DNA haplogroup. Eight of my Mom's matches who have taken the mtFull test have haplogroup A, there's another big group with A2 (including my own A2d2a). All of these people will have connections to Indigenous Mexico & Latin America. The first 125 matches fall into variations of the A, B, and C haplogroups.

Another pattern I'm looking at are those people who have taken a YDNA or mtFull test and have potential Sephardic connections. One match has the HV0b mtDNA haplogroup. A 2014 paper titled Echoes from Sepharad: signatures on the maternal gene-pool of crypto-Jewish descendants, states the HV0b haplogroup may be connected to a Sephardic Jewish founding lineage in northeastern Portugal. This woman has 20 matches in common with my Mom, including two who I know connect with our Quijada side of the tree. One of these Quijada matches is also on Ancestry, and is 10% Basque and 3% Sephardic.