This is an account of a (maternal-line) mitochondrial DNA test that was first done by the firm, Relative Genetics, and then extended to more markers by the website Genetree, with the aim of shedding light on some of the ancestry of Miller, Maxwell, Nithsdale & Forsyth Descendants in New Zealand.

Peter Douglas Zohrab (that's me!) and his relevant relatives are members of the female-line (mitochondrial DNA) haplogroup T -- subgroup T2, specifically. By "relevant relatives" is meant principally his brother and mother, but probably also her mother, Edith Miller (nee Forsyth), and her mother, Jean Forsyth (nee Sanderson) -- and anyone descended from them -- and so on back into the past. There is no guarantee as to when a relevant genetic mutation or back-mutation may or may not have occurred, which is why I am being cagy about this.