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AMERINDIAN Ancestry Out of Acadia DNA PROJECT

Group Administrator: Marie Rundquist Email: mrundqui@yahoo.com

Project 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, Lavergne, Lejeune, LeRoi, LeRoy, 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

Current balance: $190.00

Group General Fund
Type Amount Date Donor Note KitNum Donation Type
Debit $199.00 10/19/2009     157997 Unknown
Credit $20.00 10/18/2009       Unknown
Credit $70.00 10/16/2009 Leland Surette     Unknown
Credit $60.00 10/15/2009 Paul Tufts A 1/3 contribution towards a FGS test of Leland Surette   Individual
Credit $60.00 10/14/2009   For Pre-arranged 1/3rd Test   Anonymous
Debit $105.00 5/8/2009     152437 Unknown
Credit $20.00 5/6/2009 Jean Doris LeBlanc     Unknown
Credit $100.00 4/30/2009 Family Heritage Research Community For surname projects in the group   Individual
Credit $50.00 3/30/2009 Anonymous     Unknown
Credit $20.00 3/19/2009 Tom McMahon     Unknown
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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 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 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.