Mitochondrial searchs

With great anticipation, I am awaiting DNA kits for myself and my family. It is soon to be my birthday and this was the most ridiculous thing that I have been wanting,  for the longest of times.

I feel that a present should always be something you have really really wanted, but can never justify the expenditure. My husband offered and I jumped at the chance of getting them done.

I have been looking up Genetics for dummies and I know from Melissa having done a DNA test, that the Mitochondrial is passed down the mother line with no changes. They may mutate but apart from that they stay the same. These DNA cause food to be made usable, I think that it is a cute Gene for us women to control.

I decided to trace back my female creeper on the tree. A creeper is when you are only interested in 1 branch and let one sex dominate the investigation of a family line. With ancestors doubling (well hopefully) every generation it is a whopping shocker when you are only interested in the surname you were given at birth.

Here is my mt line

Rosemary	Crone	1935
Jessie	Welch	1893
Henrietta	Booyens	1866
Zacharia	Rabie	1842
Anna	Cilliers	1819
Hendrina	van eeden	1765
Cornelia	van der venter	1736
Dorethea	Coetzer	1717
Cornelia	Helm	1673
Anna	Willemse	1650

I am such a South African I should really know how to speak Afrikaans. If you are part of my family, an apology, you are really not as English as Mustard, no matter how you spread it. Well I suppose you could be as long as you did not have my mother as one of your ancestors.

It is amusing that we really are just squishy machines. A little tweek here a little tweek there and with each generation we try to build better machines.

Hope you all enjoy your Genetics today.

Kathy