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Group Administrator: Lucie Consentino luciemc@acadian-home.org
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Project Surnames:

Acadia	Acadian	Aimée, Jeanne	Anne-Marie spouse of Pinet and Raimbault
Arnault,Marie	Aubois, Marie (Christine)	Aucoin, Jeanne & Michelle	Bajolet, Barbe
Basile, Perrine	Bastineau dit Peltier, Louise	Bayon, Rose	Bernon, Anne
Berteau (Bertrand), Cécile	Boileau, Marguerite	Bourg, Perrine	Breau, Renée
Brunet, Marie	Bugaret,Catherine	Cajun	Canol, Marie-Anne
Caplan, Catherine	Caplan, Madeleine	Caplan, Marguerite	Caplan, Marie-Louise
Catherine spouse of Jean Labarre and Étienne Rivet	Chaussegros, Marie	Chebrat, Jeanne	Corbineau, Françoise
D'Amours de Chauffours, Louise	Doucet, Marguerite spouse of Abraham Dugas	Dugard, Marie-Antoinette	Forest,Geneviève
Gaudet,Françoise	Gaudet,Marie	Gauthier, Martine	Gautrot, Anne
Guyon,Andrée	Hélie, Madeleine	Henry, Jeanne	Housseau, Marguerite
Jarouselle, Susanne	Jean dit Madelon, Isabelle-Madeleine	Jeanne, Andrée-Angélique	Kagigconiac, Jeanne
Lambert, Radegonde	Landry, Antoinette	Lavache, Anne	Lefranc, Geneviève
Lejeune, Catherine	Lejeune,Edmée	Lejeune,Jeanne	Marie spouse of François Gautrot
Marie spouse of Philippe Mius d'Azy	Marie-Thérèse spouse of Claude Petitpas	Martin, Marie-Madeleine	Mathilde, 1st spouse of Baron de Saint-Castin
Michel, Jacquette	Motin de Reux, Jeanne	Ouestnorouest dit Petitous, Anne	Patarabego, Anne
Piddiwamiskwa, Marie	Rau, Perrine	Rousselière, Jeanne	Saint-Étienne de La Tour, Jeanne de
Soubirou, Isabeau dite Judith	Toupin, Françoise	Unknown spouse of Philippe Mius d'Azy	Vigneau, Catherine

Project Background:

Please note that more information is available on the mtDNA Proven Origins page at the ACADIAN ANCESTRAL HOME

The Mothers of Acadia mtDNA Project is intended to test descendants of the pioneer Mothers of Acadia whether of French or of Native extraction. This project is dedicated to all of the founding Mothers of Acadia.

The objective of this project is to identify the origins of those Mothers of Acadia. Because of the Deportation and exile of 1755, many records were lost and/or destroyed at the time.

At this time in our history, mitochondrial DNA testing, or mtDNA testing, provides a vehicle to establish whether these pioneer women were of European or of Native origin. Because of missing records that would have identified the origins of these ancestral Mothers, there has been a great deal of controversy regarding their origins -- though noted genealogists attribute most of them as having come from France/Europe. These tests are helping to resolve some of these controversies.

mtDNA, is based solely on one's direct maternal line. Both women and men can be mtDNA tested. If you descend from one Mothers of Acadia listed above, please consider mtDNA testing.

To qualify for mtDNA testing, one's direct maternal line begins with you, then goes to your mother, and to her mother, to her mother, and so forth, ending when you have gone as far as possible in your maternal line.

It would be preferable to share your maternal line with the administrator of this project - before testing - so it can be verified. If your maternal line is not complete, we can help you with that also.

If you have questions about your maternal line prior to testing, or if you have already been tested but need any help at all, please send Lucie a message. It would be quite helpful to you and to the project that your maternal line be verified prior to testing.

Thank you for your collaboration!
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For more mtDNA results of participants who joined the mtDNA Proven Origins project begun two years ago, please go to the
ACADIAN ANCESTRAL HOME and click on mtDNA Proven Origins at the sidebar.

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Project Goals:

To know the origins of the Founding Mothers of Acadia.

Project News:

On April 21, 2008 Family Tree DNA approved the Acadian Mothers mtDNA Project.

Project Results:

My mtDNA success story
by Peggy Carter Wehe

I have been doing some form of Family History Research for over 30 years. During that time I traced my mother’s family on the male lineage back to France and was delighted with the results. In the meantime a cousin on my father’s side took up that research and I started on my husband’s European lines – German, Belgium, Luxembourg and France.

I had been a subscriber to Richard Eastman’s Genealogy Newsletter for a long time and about two years ago I read an article he wrote about DNA testing. I thought it sounded interesting and so I ordered the basic test – then decided to go to the second level of testing. Because it is mtDNA and traces the direct maternal line I went back and started researching that line and ran into a brick wall. Even though I had two major source books I could not find any information before the mid 1700s. I started a broader search and discovered that my maternal line may have immigrated to Acadia (Nova Scotia) in the mid 1600s. I was doing online research and thought that I had figured out my maternal lineage but because I had no access to primary sources I could not be sure. I joined the French Heritage DNA Project during this time.

Very recently I received an invitation to join an mtDNA Project and I accepted. I sent the information on my maternal lineage to Lucie LeBlanc Consentino who sent it to Stephen White for verification. After fewer corrections than I expected, I can now lay claim to being a 16th generation descendent from a daughter of Acadia – Jeanne Motin de Reux. I am fortunate to descend from such a distinguished line, because at sixteen generations it gives me the longest female-line lineage to date

On my paternal line, my cousin had done all the research and again thought that we knew which English “Carter” line we could claim as our ancestors but one link was weak on documentation. We convinced our Carter male first cousin to have his DNA tested and submitted our lineage to the Carter Society. Through the DNA test comparisons we were able to determine which Carter settler of the new world we descended from.

I am delighted with all the new information that I have recently obtained. It has become my custom to print a small family history book with pictures for each new baby that is born in our family. As my nieces and nephews turn forty years old I make a Family History Book as a birthday present for them. The DNA results will add an additional validation to some of the information.

DNA Test Results (mtDNA) for Project Members