mt DNA results

[gilmore]

thats great news
I'm awaiting my ydna 37 and mtdna test results in the following weeks and reading your wee snippet has made me more excited of what news lies ahead
interesting you have a Scots maternal side also especially with as you say the time span since when your ancestors lived

doing my mtdna has made me search the female lines of my family tree a bit more indepth than i used to before has this been the case with you also ?

No, not really. My family has been doing this for a long, long time. In most of our lines we have either hit a brick wall, or have traced it back to Charlemagne and his immediate ancestors, which is as far as one can go, reliably (unless Charlemagne's great grandmother, Bertha, was a Merovignian, as some posit. If so, credible genealogies can be traced back a further 2 or 3 centuries.)

For me DNA testing is the tool of last resort, as opposed to some others, who seem to want to be merely tested and then profit from the decades of hard work that others have done.