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This project is a meeting place for users who share the H7c2 Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup, which means they are related along their maternal lines. Users in this group may want to share their family trees with each other to find overlaps and merge duplicate profiles in order to join or expand the World Family Tree and discover new relatives.
The mtdna haplogroup H7c2 appears to be a predominantly Ashkenazi Jewish subclade of H7 with origins likely circa 270 - 300 CE.
Per the researcher Doron Yacobi, "[T]he relatively young cluster of H7c2, shown here to be found only in Ashkenazi communities . . . favors European origin amongst early Ashkenazi settlement predating their geographic dispersal. However, in view of the wide geographic dispersal of mother clade H7c in both Western Asia and Europe (estimated TMRCA of over 7,000 YBP[13] ), and the documented presence of the other descended branch H7c1 in the Levant (including amongst one individual of Sephardic origin), a Levantine origin for H7c2 cannot be ruled out. If the absolute time estimates were correct, this would indeed support a non-European origin because it dates to the early period of the Jewish diaspora (200-300 CE; i.e. it pre-dates 650 CE) when the vast majority of Jews were found outside of Europe . . ."
Per Doron Bear, the age of H7c2 is 1,700 ±6,600(Behar et al. 2012b). Therefore, the woman who started this branch lived at some point between recent generations and 8,300 years ago (Behar et al. 2012b).