I have been re-reading Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes and thinking about how to systematically work my way through the full sequence matches I have obtained from FamilyTreeDNA.com (most of which did not provide any information about their mitochondrial ancestral line. At one time, I had a conflict with several other researchers that could have been scientifically resolved through MtDNA results, but actually census data pretty much disposes of that conflict. It could, however, help me learn more…