This group is already 179 members strong and is for anyone who has been given an mtDNA haplogroup L designation. (Regardless of surname or location).

http://groups.ancestry.com/site/79400874/public/

According to Ancestry.com, Your maternal ancient ancestors emerged over 150,000 years ago, in west Africa, although there's evidence that the Predecessors migrated to essentially all points on the African continent. Predecessors can be found in present-day Cameroon, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Nigeria, Guinea, Morocco, the Canary Islands, Chad, Niger, Sudan, Angola, Mali and many other African countries as well as the Arabian Peninsula.