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This project is a meeting place for users who share the U5a1a1d 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.
Background
Haplogroup U5a1a1d is a branch on the maternal tree of human kind. The woman who started this branch lived at some point between recent generations and 4,300 years ago
U5a1a1d has 23 samples and is found most often in Ireland, Scotland and Wales with a smaller number of samples in western Europe and rarely found in eastern Europe. It is interesting that U5a1a1d is found most frequently in Ireland and Scotland and less frequently in England. Perhaps this group had its origins among early Britons and was replaced in England by later migrations?