Erlinda,

May I ask what company you used for your test and how you went about 
researching the prices, services, etc.?

--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "Erlinda Castanon-Long" 
<longsjourney@y...> wrote:
> Good morning,
> 
> Just got my mtdna results back, don't understand most of but my 
> female line is group A which is pre-Columbian, they take it back 
> 30,000 years... guess we've been here a while! The A group extends 
> down into South America so our female Indio ancestor was native 
> born...  Our male ancestors may have been from Spain but they 
> married Native American women along the line.
> 
> This test does not show any of the women from our male lines, just 
> female to female so it doesn't prove our Espanol or Mulato blood 
but 
> the records prove that, so ...I'm happy just having a more complete 
> picture of our family tree. My proven female line is from Jalisco 
> Mexico.
> 
> Has anyone else in this group done the mtdna?
> 
> Linda from Wa.
> 
> HVR1 Haplogroup
>  A
>  
> HVR1 differences
> 
> from CRS
>  16111T
>  
>   16223T
>  
>   16290T
>  
>   16319A
>  
>   16335G
>  
>   16362C
>  
>   16526A

Linda,

My mtDNA test came also haplogroup A. My maternal great-grandmother
was from the Jalisco area.

Compare our numbers and see that we match on four markers. Not very
close, but it means we share a common female mother thousands of years
ago:

Mine ----Yours

16075C > ------
16111T > ------
16223T > 16223T
16239T > ------
16290T > 16290T
16319A > 16319A
------ > 16335G
16362C > 16362C
------ > 16526A


Saludos
Victor


--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "Erlinda Castanon-Long"
<longsjourney@y...> wrote:
> Good morning,
> 
> Just got my mtdna results back, don't understand most of but my 
> female line is group A which is pre-Columbian, they take it back 
> 30,000 years... guess we've been here a while! The A group extends 
> down into South America so our female Indio ancestor was native 
> born...  Our male ancestors may have been from Spain but they 
> married Native American women along the line.
> 
> This test does not show any of the women from our male lines, just 
> female to female so it doesn't prove our Espanol or Mulato blood but 
> the records prove that, so ...I'm happy just having a more complete 
> picture of our family tree. My proven female line is from Jalisco 
> Mexico.
> 
> Has anyone else in this group done the mtdna?
> 
> Linda from Wa.
> 
> HVR1 Haplogroup
>  A
>  
> HVR1 differences
> 
> from CRS
>  16111T
>  
>   16223T
>  
>   16290T
>  
>   16319A
>  
>   16335G
>  
>   16362C
>  
>   16526A