Late breaking news for men having the SURETTE surname: Just received word: We have another Big Y DNA "signature" haplogroup branch (signified in the image above). This time, it's for a man who has the "Surette" surname lineage, traced from father to father.
The owner of this proud, Acadian surname also carries another signature mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup: U6a7a1a. Quick: Which Acadian ancestor(s) is this very unique mtDNA haplogroup associated with? Hint: These ancestors are thought to be sisters. We are Y DNA, mtDNA haplogroup-proud all the way on the Acadian Amerindian Ancestry DNA Project site! Men who belong to the Acadian Amerindian Ancestry DNA Project: If you have not had this already, please consider upgrading your Y DNA test results to the Big Y 700. We are constantly "raising the bar" for genetic genealogy here in our project -- and the ability to estimate timelines for the origins of our unique haplogroups help us do so. Thanks to all who have helped us in this noble quest! To any family researcher who shouts, or has ever shouted, "I JUST FOUND [fill in the blank ancestor]" just when you thought you would NEVER FIND [fill in the blank ancestor] by reading through EVERY PAGE of a civil or parish register, I dedicate the following post:
I had the occasion to recommend a couple of reliable sources on Wikitree, which I cited while adding family profiles to that system. Happily, the feedback received in response to my recommendations, appeared to be very positive. As there is no reason why I should not share these same sources with everyone, I am publishing my recommendations along with the links to Wikitree Reliable Sources lists where they have been posted. The sources I've recommended in this post have original scanned and digitized records, and they add to the numerous scanned and digitized census reports, civil and church registers, and other records inventories made available to us so graciously by the Canadian and Nova Scotia archives, the State of Louisiana, the Diocese of Baton Rouge, and other State organizations. I can't tell you how very helpful these sources are in researching and verifying the marriage, births, and deaths of our French and Acadian ancestors and how exciting it is when the name of a beloved ancestor, or two, or three, born hundreds of years ago, "pop out" (and they do have a way of "popping out") while reading through the records, in their original form. The birth notice for ancestor Charles Gaschet de Lisle, and one for the marriage of his parents, did "pop out" (finally!) in the Les Archives nationales d'outre-mer after paging through hundreds of records. I felt elated, like I struck gold, when I found their names, and all of the details of their birth and marriage events as recorded in French, in the pages of antique civil registers. That "aha" feeling was every bit worth the time it took to read through every page! Family records appear, as recorded in the original French language, in the civil registers of Saint-Pierre, Martinique as cited below (as an aside, I find I have autosomal DNA matches in My Heritage whose families are also from Saint-Pierre, Martinique -- but to find out how we relate, exactly, is research for another day):
Moving on to the Acadians. I have added my mtDNA-proven matrilineal line, and other related ancestors, starting with me (Wikitree profile M. Asselia Rundquist) and tracing all the way back, from mother to mother, to ancestor Anne Marie Mi'kmaq in Wikitree, and have of course, included my ancestors who were exiled to the State of Maryland. While editing a profile of Angelique David, one of my direct ancestors in my matrilineal line, I referenced the AcadiansWereHere.org website where we have a county map and scanned images of the 1763 census taken in Colonial Maryland.
I invite you to research both of these recommended sources with confidence, enjoy using the reliable sources pages referenced in the post, and have a great time researching ancestry! Big Y 700 DNA test results yield new haplogroup branches and “Time Trees” for C-P39 Y DNA haplogroup and Germain Doucet b. 1641 descendants ... by Marie Rundquist with Deadra Doucet Bourke, Contributor February 22, 2023 Introduction
The discovery of the C-P39 Native Y chromosome DNA signature for genetic male descendants of Germain Doucet b. 1641, in 2008, had great significance for genealogists because the Native Y DNA signature attained for this line (1.) disproved a European ancestry for Germain Doucet b. 1641, (2.) disproved a father-son relationship between Germain Doucet b. 1641 and Germain Doucet Sr. of France and (3.) disproved that Pierre Doucet (b. ca 1621) and Germain Doucet (b. 1641) were blood brothers having descended from the same father. Through exhaustive Y Chromosome DNA testing of numerous male, paternal line Doucet / Doucete descendants of Germain Doucet b. 1641, who was from Port Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada, our Acadian-Amerindian and C-P39 Y DNA projects have uncovered, validated, and then verified a Native American Y Chromosome DNA haplogroup signature (originally referred to as haplogroup C3b and now referred to as haplogroup C-P39) for his descendants through sons Charles, Claude and Laurent. In 2019, the C-Z30754 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), or genetic marker, a subclade of the C-P39 Y DNA haplogroup, was identified as unique to genetic male, patrilineal (father to father) descendants of Germain Doucet b. 1641 through advanced Big Y 700 DNA testing. Y chromosome DNA is inherited through patrilineal line of descent and is passed, from one generation to the next, virtually unchanged, from father to father. Y chromosome DNA tests are separate test from mitochondrial and autosomal DNA tests and are for genetic males only. The C-Z30754 marker also identified a new subclade of the C-P39 Y DNA haplogroup to which male descendants of Germain Doucet b. 1641 belong. Genetic male descendants of Germain Doucet b. 1641 who have had advanced Big Y 700 DNA test show a positive result for this marker (C-Z30754+) and the C-P39 marker (C-P39+) in Big Y 700 DNA test results. Since the original identification of the C-Z30754 subclade as unique to the Germain Doucet b. 1641 surname lineage, new and unexpected branches, or subclades, of the C-Z30754 haplogroup have emerged among the Big Y 700 DNA test results of genetic male descendants of Germain Doucet b. 1641. Further study of these new branches, and the SNPs (or genetic markers) that identify them, reveal that each new branch aligns, one-for-one, with a known surname lineage through a specific patrilineal line – traced from father to father - within the Germain Doucet b. 1641 family tree. The purpose of this update is to show how all of this works – and introduce some fascinating new Big Y 700 DNA tools and capabilities we may all use for our own genetic genealogy research at the same time! Note: Click here to read the rest of the report -- and find out about some surprising new discoveries about Doucet DNA we came upon in our research! Université Sainte-Anne Centre acadien is a truly excellent genealogy / family history resource for those researching Acadian roots in Nova Scotia, Canada. So glad to see it's back! Pointe-de-l'Église (N.-É.), December 21, 2022. "Matthias Duc, new director of the Center acadien." (Note: To enable auto-translation from French to English, please copy paste the link to the article above into your Chrome browser and use the translate to English button provided.)
From the news release: "Université Sainte-Anne is pleased to announce that Matthias Duc, archivist, librarian and information science specialist, will assume the full-time role of director of the Center acadien as of January 1 , 2023. Mr. Duc holds two graduate degrees, a master's degree in communication sciences and a master's degree in information sciences, both from the University of Montreal." Link to: https://www.usainteanne.ca/index.php?option=com_acym&ctrl=archive&task=view&id=823 |
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