AMERINDIAN Ancestry Out of Acadia DNA PROJECT
Group Administrator: Marie Rundquist mrundqui@yahoo.com
Group Co-Administrator: Sue Mace s_m_mace@yahoo.com



Project Surnames:
Abbadie de St CastinAboriginalAcadianAimé
AlexandreAmerIndianAmours de ChauffoursArnault
AuboisAucoinAugerBayol
BayonBenoitBernardBernon
BoucherBoudreauBoulieauBourg
CarmelCelestin dit BellemereChaussegrosDegre
DoucetDuboisFortinFortune
FrenchGallantGaudetGauthier
GautrotGirouardGouthreauGuédry
GuidryGuildryGuthrouGuyon
HébertHélieIndianKing
LabineLandryLavergneLejeune
LeRoiLeRoyMartinMetis
MetisseMeuseMichifMius
MuseNative AmericanOuestnorouestPellerin
PetitpasPidiwammiskwaPinetPisnet
RauRenaudRimbaultRivet
RoiRoyRoy dit LaliberteSaindon
Serreau de St AubinSt Etienne de La TourTheriotTrahan


Group General Fund:
09/07/06 - Tom McMahon donation....$20
09/07/06 - Total available....$20
09/08/06 - Marie A. Rundquist donation....$50
09/08/06 - Total available....$70
09/11/06 - Michael MacNeil donation....$20
09/11/06 - Total available....$90
09/11/06 - Karen Cooper donation....$10
09/11/06 - Total available....$100
09/12/06 - John Burton donation....$20
09/12/06 - Total available....$120
09/12/06 - Glenn Burton donation....$20
09/12/06 - Total available....$140
09/12/06 - Erich V. Burton donation....$20
09/12/06 - Total available....$160
09/13/06 - Janice McInnis donation in memory of Elias Jessome....$20
09/13/06 - Total available....$180
09/13/06 - Harvey A. Bond donation in memory of Jessomes-Leblancs of Bras d'Or, Cape Breton, NS....$25
09/13/06 - Total available....$205
09/18/06 - Garrett Jerome Gallant donation in memory of All My Ancester's....$100
09/18/06 - Total available....$305
09/18/06 - Paul Bunnell donation....$20
09/18/06 - Total available....$325
09/25/06 - Kathleen McHale donation in memory of Edith Daigle McNeil....$50
09/25/06 - Total available....$375
09/25/06 - Keith G. Gauthier donation....$60
09/25/06 - Total available....$435
09/25/06 - Dick Thibeail donation....$10
09/25/06 - Total available....$445
09/26/06 - Michele Doucette donation....$20
09/26/06 - Total available....$465
09/27/06 - Jeanne LeBlanc donation in memory of the unknown wife of Jean Gaudet....$20
09/27/06 - Total available....$485
09/29/06 - Kit 73923....($133)
09/29/06 - Total available....$352
11/06/06 - Louis Azard donation....$100
11/06/06 - Total available....$452
11/06/06 - Jeannine Brien donation....$25
11/06/06 - Total available....$477
11/20/06 - Kit 77283....($131)
11/20/06 - Total available....$346
11/20/06 - Maria Yoppolo donation in honor of Sara Ann Dupuis Breau....$133
11/20/06 - Total available....$479
12/11/06 - Sharon Chase donation in memory of Francis Comeau....$25
12/11/06 - Total available....$504
01/26/07 - Donna Stiles donation....$25
01/26/07 - Total available....$529
02/05/07 - Barbara Whynot donation....$50
02/05/07 - Total available....$579
02/08/07 - Marie A. Rundquist donation in memory of Frank H. Pierce III & Asselia S. Lichliter....$100
02/08/07 - Total available....$679
02/09/07 - Kit 84110....($103)
02/09/07 - Total available....$576
02/12/07 - Raymond F. Lussier donation in memory of My Grandparents....$30
02/12/07 - Total available....$606
02/21/07 - Kit 85160....($101)
02/21/07 - Total available....$505
03/19/07 - Shayworks donation....$25
03/19/07 - Total available....$530
03/19/07 - Kit N37290....($75)
03/19/07 - Total available....$455
04/11/07 - Kit N37215....($75)
04/11/07 - Total available....$380
05/01/07 - Harold Katner donation....$100
05/01/07 - Total available....$480
05/08/07 - Kit 75808....($75)
05/08/07 - Total available....$405
08/31/07 - Kit 100713....($133)
08/31/07 - Total available....$272
11/01/07 - Kit N31105....($75)
11/01/07 - Total available....$197
05/05/08 - Paul J. Bunnell, UE, Author donation....$15
05/05/08 - Total available....$212
07/16/08 - nicole rowland donation....$50
07/16/08 - Total available....$262
07/17/08 - Kit 127289....($133)
07/17/08 - Total available....$129


Project Background:

The AmerIndian Ancestry 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.

We descend from both AmerIndians (mostly Mi’kmaq) and the early French settlers who arrived in Port Royal in the 1600s, many of them single French men who married AmerIndian wives, whose families would become pioneers of the New World. 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 mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) test results in her quest for her earliest maternal AmerIndian ancestor in the story,

Finding Anne Marie
http://www.frenchdna.org/findingannemarie.html

The AmerIndian Ancestry 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 line traces to a “Person of Interest” (For a list of names, click on Goals Tab) 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 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. To become a member, 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.


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