Well....yes. He had the same mtDNA as his mother but it stopped with him. He passed his R1b yDNA on to me. The U5a mtDNA of my grandmother is only passed down by the females.
I never knew Mrs Smith. I got her DNA from her daughters daughter, my cousin, long after her death.
My mother had a fairly rare DNA, haplogroup 'V', as do myself and 52% of the Skoat Sami people.
>> My mother had a fairly rare DNA, haplogroup ‘V’, as do myself and 52% of the Skoat Sami people <<
Interesting! My mother carried the U5b haplogroup, also from the Saami, and most of our close matches are in Finland.
On the other hand, we have no proof of how that line got to the USA. In fact, we’ve found absolutely no history of Finnish or Scandinavian heritage in the written record or oral legends about the line. Maybe we trace back to the Swedish Colony of Delaware. But that’s just a theory without evidence.