You said your mother was a Cooper. That means her mother's maiden name was probably not Cooper. The MtDNA will test your donor through their mother's mother's mother's line, not through the donor's mother's father's line. If you think Y chromosome lines are hard to nail down, its easier to nail jello to the wall than to identify MtDNA lines specifically.

As it was explained to us. Mothers and daughters have the same DNA. The father's DNA make up only a small part is passed on to the female.Making it harder for this to be proven if you are a female. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 2:58 PM Subject: Re: [COOPER] Cooper DNA > You said your mother was a Cooper. That means her mother's maiden name > was > probably not Cooper. The MtDNA will test your donor through their > mother's > mother's mother's line, not through the donor's mother's father's line. > > If you think Y chromosome lines are hard to nail down, its easier to nail > jello to the wall than to identify MtDNA lines specifically. > > > ==== COOPER Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the COOPER list, send the command "unsubscribe" to > [email protected] (if in mail mode) or > [email protected] (if in digest mode.) > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >