You’re invited to a free free webinar at Legacy Family Tree Webinars titled Rewriting the Tree of Humankind: The Million Mito Project – What Is It, How We Did It, and What It Means To You.

Think of this as a peek inside the Million Mito Project – an insider view of the process of creating the new Mitotree. As both a genealogist and scientist, being a member of the dream team that birthed the new Mitotree has been the opportunity of a lifetime. We’re not finished yet, either! The Mitotree lives, and new releases and features provide new discoveries every day.

For example, our next release will add another 5,000 branches, bringing the total from 40,000 to about 45,000.

You can sign up, here, and join me live this Friday, June 6^th, at 2 PM EDT. The webinar remains free for the following 7 days. After that, it will be added to the subscription library of over 2400 webinars, and members can watch at any time, plus download the included handouts.

This webinar is similar to a TED talk and covers what has changed with the release of the new Mitotree, and why. The tree has its own genealogy and “history” and it’s a fascinating story about what we did and why – challenges we never expected, and how we overcame them in new ways to make mitochondrial DNA even more valuable to genealogists.

You don’t need to understand the science behind mitochondrial DNA to enjoy this webinar. So, make yourself a nice cuppa something and enjoy learning about how we developed new scientific methodologies to create better ways to break through those maternal line brick walls. The results are incredible!

What’s This All About?

The mitochondrial tree of humanity has been rewritten, connecting all of us more succinctly than ever before on the new Mitotree.

Everyone receives mitochondrial DNA from their mother with no admixture from the father, unlike autosomal DNA. This unique feature makes mitochondrial DNA very unique and extremely useful for genealogy. Your mother received her mitochondrial DNA from her mother, then mother to daughter, all the way back in time to Mitochondrial Eve.

Mitochondrial DNA is never admixed with the DNA of the other parent, so you never have to sort out which lines it comes from. We are all leaves on the twigs on the branches of the tree of humankind and mitochondrial DNA shows you exactly where you fit, how you got there, and who else is there with you.

I don’t know about you, but I want to know where my ancestors came from – even if I don’t know their names beyond my end-of-line brick wall. I can still learn about who they were and now, with new matching tools, you can focus on which matches may solve those brick-wall mysteries.

The mitochondrial tree had not been updated since 2016, but now, with more than a million samples to work with, 50 times more than before, the tree structure has been expanded eight-fold (soon to be nine) by combining samples from academic publications, ancient DNA, public sources, and testers at FamilyTreeDNA.

The new Mitotree and companion tools provide information never before available to genealogists about their matrilineal lineages. In addition to the vastly expanded genetic tree, FamilyTreeDNA rolled out mtDNA Discover that provides a dozen fascinating chapters in your mitochondrial book.

As a Million Mito Team member, I’ll explain the challenges we overcame to create the tree of humanity – and how the new Mitotree is useful to genealogists. All genealogists can benefit, because everyone has mitochondrial DNA that holds the key to information never before available!

Let those brick walls fall!!!

Sign up to reserve your space and see you on Friday!!

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