Tretower Genealogy Research

We are preparing to test the 2nd of 2 Mitochondrial DNA descendants of Fereby (Benton) Vaughan, wife of William Vaughan.  This newest test is on a descendant of Fereby through her daughter Lucy.  Sadly, all three MtDNA tests will have been done through this same daughter’s line.  I’m still looking for a MtDNA descendant through one of Fereby’s other daughters, but there has been no luck finding one yet.  MtDNA has to be passed down from mother to child, and male children do not pass their mother’s MtDNA down to their children.  So an MtDNA descendant has a new surname each generation.  It makes tracing them forward in time a bit more difficult.  Still, these two latest tests should verify the test we did several years ago on Kim, who gave us Fereby’s Haplotype as “H”, the most common MtDNA type, from Northern Europe.