Certificate - Ancestral Country Matches







mtDNA Recent Ancestral Origins

Welcome to the mtDNA ANCESTRAL ORIGINS database! This section displays the countries of origin reported by the people whom you match from both our research and customer databases. Your list of matches represents the range of places in which relatives of your ancestors may have lived. Current scientific research considers differences in positions 309 and 315 in the HVR2 region to be genealogically insignificant, so they are ignored in High Resolution and Full Sequence match comparisons.
For information purposes, the Recent Ancestral Origins search also displays results that are matches from both the research database and Family Tree DNA customers. Entries from the research database typically include only base pairs 16001 to 16400, while our tests include the full spectrum of HVR-1 which is 16001 to 16569, so both near and exact matches are listed below.
The chart displays:
  • Each country from which you have matches
  • The number of people you match for each country and comment combination
  • Any additional information your matches provided about their origins
  • The total number of people you match from that country
  • The total number of people who have reported this as their country of origin
  • The percent of the people we have tested from this country who match you

How to read this chart:

The following is an example of how to correctly interpret your matches below:
You match 1 person out of 559 people from Austria, this is 0.2% of the population tested from Austria.
LOW RESOLUTION (HVR1) MATCHES
CountryYour MatchesCommentMatch TotalCountry TotalPercentage
Armenia1-190N/A
Austria1-15590.2%
Belarus2-22920.7%
Belgium2-22600.8%
Bosnia and Herzegovina1-140N/A
Bulgaria1Sephardic11750.6%
Croatia6-61913.1%
Czech Republic3-35940.5%
Denmark5-55570.9%
England33-336,9140.5%
Ethiopia1-22990.7%
1Amhara
France11-112,4500.4%
Germany22-237,7270.3%
1Lower Saxony
Greece3-34000.8%
Hungary4-46730.6%
India1-15040.2%
Iraq1Mizrachi11910.5%
Ireland24-256,0230.4%
1Bohemia
Italy23-282,5901.1%
5Sicily
Lithuania3-47070.6%
1Ashkenazi
Luxembourg1-152N/A
Netherlands8-89520.8%
Northern Ireland1-11320.8%
Norway8-81,2490.6%
Poland9-102,8950.3%
1Ashkenazi
Romania2-25050.4%
Russian Federation5-61,4530.4%
1Ashkenazi
Scotland11-112,8590.4%
Serbia1-163N/A
Slovakia4-43951.0%
Slovenia1-11310.8%
Spain3-41,3990.3%
1Basque
Sweden3-31,3820.2%
Switzerland3-48920.4%
1Bern
Turkey3-34280.7%
Ukraine3-31,0780.3%
United Kingdom21-285,3870.5%
3British Isles
4Great Britain
Wales4-46630.6%
HIGH RESOLUTION (HVR1+HVR2)
CountryYour MatchesCommentMatch TotalCountry TotalPercentage
Austria1-12010.5%
Belarus1-11510.7%
Croatia1-159N/A
Czech Republic2-22430.8%
Denmark2-22011.0%
England15-153,0150.5%
France5-59270.5%
Germany10-113,0660.4%
1Lower Saxony
Ireland6-62,2210.3%
Italy5-58400.6%
Norway2-24670.4%
Poland6-61,0480.6%
Romania1-11520.7%
Russian Federation1-14960.2%
Scotland1-11,0770.1%
Slovakia1-11750.6%
Switzerland1-14050.2%
United Kingdom9-101,8030.6%
1Great Britain
Wales1-12340.4%
FULL GENOMIC SEQUENCE MATCH