Apparently our haplogroup (family of Joseph Charles Mair [Pfaffenhofen, Austria] and Esther Frieda Louise Boyce Mair [Zweismmen, Switzerland]) is U8a1a . As our ancestors ventured out of eastern Africa, they branched off in diverse groups that crossed and recrossed the globe over tens of thousands of years. Some of their migrations can be traced through haplogroups, families of lineages that descend from a common ancestor. Your maternal haplogroup can reveal the path followed by the women of your maternal line. Since originating in the Middle East about 60,000 years ago Haplogroup U has generated numerous branches that have since been carried into Europe, various parts of Asia and even back into Africa, the cradle of the human species. Haplogroups U5 and U8 were carried into Europe about 40,000 years ago by some of the first modern humans to inhabit that continent. Haplogroup U7 expanded in southwestern Asia about the same time.…