Welcome to the Chegau Mi’kmaq Family DNA project. The purpose of the project is to confirm all clan lineages that have a kinship relationship to the Chegau family of the Mi’kmaq Tribe. Turtle Island’s ancient borders are defined by the genealogy and genetic history of its people. Turtle Island includes North America, South America, the Artic, Greenland, and Saint Pierre and Miquelon. The Chegau lineage of the Mi’kmaq Tribe predates the colonization of Turtle Island as does other clan lineages of the Mi’kmaq Tribe related to the Chegau family. The Chegau family and related clan lineages have inter-tribal kinship relationships that occurred before, during and after colonization that are important to the tribal history of Turtle Island. Inter-tribal lineages related to the Chegau family and related clan lineages of the Mi'kmaq Tribe are welcome to join the Chegau DNA project. Starting in the early 1600’s foreign lineages married into the Mi’kmaq Tribe. A foreign lineage is a family lineage with a DNA haplogroup that is not indigenous to Turtle Island. What is the origin and history of the foreign clan lineages that married into the Chegau and related clan lineages of the Mi’kmaq Tribe? When did the family arrive? What was the original surname first used by the family upon arrival to Turtle Island? Is there a baptism or civil birth record from the monarchy or country of origin for individuals who married into the Mi’kmaq Tribe? If you have a percentage of Turtle Island DNA in your autosomal DNA results than you descend from a clan lineage of a Turtle Island Tribe. If you have a Turtle Island mtDNA or yDNA haplogroup than you are a clan lineage of a Turtle Island Tribe. Which Turtle Island Tribe you are related to depends on your relationship to the individuals, families and clan lineages of a specific Turtle Island Tribe. If you would like to join the Chegau Mi’kma family DNA project and you have already tested your autosomal DNA with AncestryDNA™, 23andMe©, or MyHeritage™ you can upload your autosomal DNA data results to FamilyTreeDNA for free and join the project. Thank you for the financial donations to the DNA project. Donations will be used to pay for DNA testing to confirm the identity of unknown individuals married into the Chegau and related clan lineages of the Mi’kmaq Tribe. Under the links section of this page are links to the Mi’kmaq Tribe Genetic tree, the Turtle Island Genealogy discussion group, the Turtle Island Genealogy Blog, and the instructions for uploading your autosomal DNA results to Family Tree DNA for free. The Mi’kmaq Tribe Genetic tree is a public tree on Ancestry.ca. You can search for the tree by member or tree name. Member name is (Donna Launay), tree name is (Mi'kmaq Tribe Genetic Tree). To join the Turtle Island Genealogy discussion group on Facebook, please send a request to join through Facebook. Turtle Island Genealogy is a blog and genealogy resource site for researching Turtle Island genealogy. Thank you for participating in the Chegau Mi'kmaq Family DNA project!