Nancy Hanks' lineage

[maharba]

You very quickly ran past me in the middle of the first paragraph, though I will continue to digest your analysis there. The idea is that mitochondria DNA or mtDNA is inherited from only the mother's line. Let's go all the way to a wild guess at the bottom line,

Who would you (perhaps wildly speculate, at this time) were the parents
father and mother of Nancy Hanks? Who, very briefly, would you say can be ruled out as being her maternal Hanks line?