The DISTANT MATERNAL Line Ancestry

Our Maternal Haplogroup is H3

Note from me: 

The different haplogroups below are all a part of my maternal line. They are called different things as they move in different areas of the world, but the end group of today called H-3 is descended from the first group of haplogroup L. 

The following information is from 23andMe:

200,000 Years Ago

180,000 Years Ago
Haplogroup L

If every person living today could trace his or her maternal line back over thousands of generations, all of our lines would meet at a single woman who lived in eastern Africa between 150,000 and 200,000 years ago. Though she was one of perhaps thousands of women alive at the time, only the diverse branches of her haplogroup have survived to today. The story of our maternal line begins with her.

The maternal haplogroup begins at point L in Africa.

70,000 Years Ago

Haplogroup L365,000 Years Ago

Our branch of L is haplogroup L3, which arose from a woman who likely lived in eastern Africa between 60,000 and 70,000 years ago. While many of her descendants remained in Africa, one small group ventured east across the Red Sea, likely across the narrow Bab-el-Mandeb into the tip of the Arabian Peninsula.

59,000 Years Ago

Haplogroup N

 59,000 Years Ago

Our story continues with haplogroup N, one of two branches that arose from L3 in southwestern Asia. Researchers have long debated whether they arrived there via the Sinai Peninsula, or made the hop across the Red Sea at the Bab-el-Mandeb. Though their exact routes are disputed, there is no doubt that the women of haplogroup N migrated across all of Eurasia, giving rise to new branches from Portugal to Polynesia.

57,000 Years Ago 

Haplogroup R

One of those branches is haplogroup R, which traces back to a woman who lived soon after the migration out of Africa. She likely lived in southwest Asia, perhaps in the Arabian peninsula, and her descendants lived and migrated alongside members of haplogroup N. Along the way, R gave rise to a number of branches that are major haplogroups in their own right.

18,000 Years Ago

Haplogroup H

While some members of R traveled far and wide, some remained in the Middle East for tens of thousands of years. Haplogroup H arose among the latter group, from a woman who likely lived less than 18,000 years ago. Her descendants expanded dramatically to the north after the Ice Age, and eventually reached from Arabia to the western fringes of Siberia.

Notes from me:

This must have been the gateway to our Finnish roots on our maternal line. From Siberia they moved northward to Finland. Additionally, Russia occupied Finland for a time, so there is likely Russian influence if not DNA mixed with our genetic makeup.