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Mito-Monday #1: My Mitochondrial Mothers

A stock photo that looks shockingly like the road where my maternal grandmother spent part of her childhood, which coincidentally, was around the country block from where i was raised. SO WHAT ARE MITO-MONDAYS? I realized a few years ago that my mom enjoyed talking about her childhood. In fact, she was the main reason I have gotten involved in genealogical research, but that's another story. I lived a few states away from Mom and we would talk once a week or so on the phone, for an hour or two. When I look back on it, it's actually quite surprising because I had a stroke a few years ago and talking on the phone with anybody can be quite grueling. Somehow, it wasn't with Mom. We often turned to family stories of which I started making notes. Eventually I asked her about DNA and blogging, both of which she thought exciting. So I started a blog we called The Mito-Trail. We concentrated on researching the last line I had not yet worked, because it was McMillen, M...