The Lost Creek DNA Project


Test Information

  • Taken by Harold James Anderson 
    Vendor 23andMe 
    Test Type mtDNA (Mitochondrial) 
    Most distant ancestor Mary Leonard,   b. 1854, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Most recent common ancestor Roberta Whitted,   b. 18 Sep 1895, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1994, Vigo, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Haplogroup L3d1c - Confirmed 

Origin and Migrations of Haplogroup L3d

This maternal line stems from haplogroup L3d, a branch of L3 that arose in western Africa about 26,000 years ago. Like many haplogroups found in that part of Africa, it spread widely with the migrations of Bantu-speaking people that began approximately 4,000 years ago. L3d is now found at high levels among the Bantu-speaking Sukuma of Tanzania, and is quite common in Mozambique. Due to the importance of western Africa in the Atlantic slave trade, it is also found among African Americans.