Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Drummond Maternal DNA Tracing from African Origins to Europe to Today

So now to the female/ maternal/ Mother side of my DNA: Female DNA is traced through the X chromosome. The earliest female ancestor of the Drummond line can be traced to the L haplogroup which descends from our earliest female ancestor in Africa, who lived approximately 175,000 years ago, and passed on her mitochondria DNA to every woman on earth. Her descendants have been discovered in Eastern Africa but as I learned this summer we still are not sure if it was eastern, or southern or western or all three areas of Africa that we all came from originally. This haplogroup became L3 haplogroup by 70,000 BC when the small group of women and men crossed the Red Sea, leaving Africa, and moving into Saudi Arabia. Once we left we became haplogroup N which migrated to Central Asia . Then we became haplogroup R which is found everywhere in Asia including the Near East. The R group next became haplogroup T about 45,000 years ago and moved into Europe after the last Ice Age 15,000 years ago. About 8% of female Europeans today can trace their lineage to this haplogroup T. Finally Haplogroup T2 grew out of this group. The advent of agriculture in Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, spawned a second migration of this group into Europe. Today this haplogroup is widespread at low levels in Scandinavia, Germany, France and Britain. So this is the female/maternal/mother side of the Drummonds that were in Britain/Ireland that carried this DNA to America and became the Drummond woman ( Mother) that married the Melton man (Father) and produced the male and female DNA lines in me and my sibs that I have shared the history of here. Your Drummond DNA haplogroup for googling is T2b4. !!Check it out to know your female mitochondria X Chromosome DNA history! So to conclude, my DNA , which is also my sibs from my father is Y chromosome haplogroup R1b1b2a1a1 and my Mother side mitochondria DNA X chromosome is T2b4. Those two together make me! And both can be traced back to Africa as can anyone on earth today!! Pretty amazing!!

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