AMERINDIAN Ancestry Out of Acadia DNA PROJECT- Background
Administrators
Surnames
Abbadie de St Castin, Aboriginal, Acadian, Aimé, Alexandre, AmerIndian, Amours de Chauffours, Arnault, Aubois, Aucoin, Auger, Bayol, Bayon, Benoit, Bernard, Bernon, Boucher, Boudreau, Boulieau, Bourg, Carmel, Celestin dit Bellemere, Chaussegros, Degre, Doucet, Dubois, Fortin, Fortune, French, Gallant, Gaudet, Gauthier, Gautrot, Girouard, Gouthreau, Guédry, Guidry, Guildry, Guthrou, Guyon, Hébert, Hélie, Indian, King, Labine, Landry, Laure, Lavergne, Lejeune, LeRoi, LeRoy, Lord, Martin, Metis, Metisse, Meuse, Michif, Mius, Muse, Native American, Ouestnorouest, Pellerin, Petitpas, Pidiwammiskwa, Pinet, Pisnet, Rau, Renaud, Rimbault, Rivet, Roi, Roy, Roy dit Laliberte, Saindon, Serreau de St Aubin, St Etienne de La Tour, Surette, Theriot
Background
The AmerIndian Ancestry out of Acadia Family Tree DNA Surname Project enables participants to actively engage in our unique and exciting heritage by adding and comparing DNA test results and family lines, sponsoring the purchase of DNA test kits, and discovering more about our earliest ancestors. The Amerindian Ancestry out of Acadia Family Tree DNA Project results reflect the diverse heritage of our earliest Nova Scotia ancestors.
Our ancestors include AmerIndians (mostly Mi’kmaq) and the intrepid settlers who arrived in Nova Scotia in the 16th and 17th centuries and intermarried with the AmerIndians of the area, whose families would become pioneers of the New World. Numbering among our project participants are those who possess European surnames, but have been found (through Y DNA testing) to be of Amerindian ancestries, through paternal family lines.
Our family lines have extended well-beyond the original boundaries of what was known to the French as Acadia, but to our AmerIndian ancestors as Mi’kma’ki, as our ancestors settled the outer-reaches of Nova Scotia, including Cape Breton, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Quebec. Our family lines continue to extend, traversing the entire North American continent and beyond. Many who live in the United States trace their genealogies back to the first Acadian AmerIndian immigrants who arrived in Louisiana after being deported from Nova Scotia by the British in 1755 (in the "Grand Deportation') -- and belong to a "Cajun" community known worldwide for its food, flair, fun, and love of all things French.
Group participants are at once intrigued, mystified, and challenged by our AmerIndian heritage; some of us have completed our quest for our earliest AmerIndian ancestors; other searches are still in progress, with participant DNA testing helping us solve some of our greatest family riddles.
One participant describes how she employed her own Haplogroup A mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) test results in her quest for her earliest maternal AmerIndian ancestor in the story, Finding Anne Marie.
A companion article, Confirmed C3b Y DNA Results Test the Heritage of Cajun Cousin Keith Doucet details a participant's experience with Y DNA testing, with an outcome that leads him, and others, to re-assess the origins of his established Acadian surname.
The AmerIndian Ancestry out of Acadia Family Tree DNA Surname Project assists participants in their search for their earliest AmerIndian ancestors, at times contributing to the purchase of DNA test kits for descendants whose maternal lines and paternal lines are recorded as having their earliest beginnings in Atlantic Canada and Gaspe and employing DNA test results to validate family lines.
It is incredibly exciting to have found that so many of our study participants share the same ancient AmerIndian family lines and have the same exact DNA mutation strings appearing in their test results. By comparing DNA test results with known genealogical lines and establishing "Family Clusters" among surnames, we enhance the traditional paper-based genealogical search methods with the study of our common genetic characteristics (markers) so that we may discover and verify our Acadian AmerIndian ancestor’s earliest origins. We welcome you to join the AmerIndian Ancestry out of Acadia Family Tree DNA Surname Project and become part of our study.
YOUR DNA may be the key to unlocking somes of the mysteries surrounding our ancestors as well as proving the AmerIndian origins of some of our earliest mothers. There may even be surprises with regards to the origins of some Founding Fathers. We also have a private website on AmerIndian Ancestry out of Mi’kma’ki (Acadia) which we encourage you to join if you are interested in researching your Amerindian ancestry. Members of the Amerindian Ancestry out of Acadia Family Tree DNA project are especially welcome to join as well.
The Amerindian Ancestry out of Mi'kma'ki private website provides a location for the sharing of detailed ancestry information as related to mtDNA and Y DNA tests and Family Finder information as well, as we do not post Family Finder matrices or other Family Finder results on public websites. To become a member of the Amerindian Ancestry out of Mi'kma'ki group, please send an email to the Group Administrator at the top of the page expressing why you are interested in joining our group and any lines you would be interested in tracing.
General Fund
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Current balance:
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