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Make this
the year you discover your own heritage.
This year's Mi'kmaq Acadian Cultural Festival and Reunion will be held at the Fort Point Museum, in La Have, Nova Scotia, August 20th and 21st, 2010. This is a wonderful
celebration of history and culture, offering visitors an opportunity to sample the food and learn about the traditions of
the Mi'kmaq and Acadian peoples of the area. The festival has been recognized for its support of Nova Scotia's
South Shore cultural sector, and the Mi'kmaq Acadian Cultural Festival and Reunion in Lahave, Nova Scotia was listed in
the August 9, 2010 press release announcing the Government of Canada's 2010 schedule of awards for the area. Living Legend inductee, Cajun heritage musician Bernie David of Lousiana performed at the 2009 celebration, and you may experience
Cajun Heritage Musician Bernie David's stunning musical tribute to our shared Mi'kmaq - Metis - Amerindian heritage:
La Valse de Anne Marie. With Bernie's permission, you may click here to download an MP3 file for your own personal use and enjoyment!.
Everyone making their 2010 vacation plans, fear not the tar ball!
Get on the plane, the stick, the boat, the train, or hop in your car and head south to Louisiana for the vacation of
a lifetime. During my travels in Cajun country this past July (2010), from my best recollection, I didn't
see ANY tar balls along the waterways and marshes -- and the swamps in Lafayette were ALIVE with the sound of living
creatures. There are alligators, crawdads, shrimp, oyster, and fish that are jumping right out of the Basin
(probably 'cause they're being chased by alligators) down there who will take on ANYBODY who thinks that
Louisiana is not a sportsman's paradise (along with high-stepping frogs, slithery snakes, and lizards of
various sizes and shades of green). So, while the clean up continues, continue to visit Louisiana.
My ears are not ringing with the sound of swamp pop and traditional Cajun music -- they're ringing with the humming of
bugs, the croaking of frogs, the warbling of birds, and the cheeping and calling of whatever other wildlife I heard
out there in the bayou late at night. Boudreau say -- forget about dat tar - ball -- and go down to de Teche Bayou
and have yourself a ball in Louisiana!
Make this the year you research genetic genealogy as an avenue for family line research. Click here to stay in touch with the latest news and developments within the Amerindian Ancestry out of Acadia Family Tree
DNA Project.
Ms. Rundquist
cites the following DNA testing organizations, communities, projects, and research journals as excellent sources and references
for those on similar journeys, and offers this point of view based on her own experience:
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Amerindian Heritage Research
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Amerindian Heritage in North America
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Marie Rundquist
researches her Amerindian family lines in the article, "Finding Anne Marie: The Hidden History of Our Acadian Ancestors", published originally on the French Heritage DNA Project website, and later in three historical society journals. The French-translation
of "Finding Anne Marie," "À la recherche d’Anne-Marie," is available here as well. A recently-published companion article, "Confirmed C3b Y DNA Results Test the Heritage of Cajun Cousin Keith Doucet," details an Amerindian Ancestry out of Acadia Family Tree DNA project participant's experience with Y DNA testing,
with an outcome that leads him, and others to re-assess the origins of his established Acadian surname. Emile Broome
shares his experience researching his ancestry as he couples hands-on genealogy research techniques with mtDNA testing
in the article, "Travel, Teamwork, and an mtDNA Test add up to Emile Broome's Amerindian Acadian Ancestry." Armed
with her Grandmother Asselia S. Lichliter’s prior investigation of her maternal line, brought to light for the first
time in this article, and a set of her own mitochondrial DNA test results, Ms. Rundquist travels back through four centuries
of North American history, and lands in Port Royal Nova Scotia of the early 1600s, in her quest for her Native American maternal
ancestor. During the course of the story, twelve generations of families are explored, whose surnames are shared with others
having Louisiana and Acadian family histories: Gaschet d'Lisle, Gosselin, Denelle, Ouvre (Oubre), David, Hebert, Gauterot
(Gautrot), Rimbault, and Anne Marie (?). Ms. Rundquist continues her research of the North American - Amerindian branch of her
family’s heritage, celebrates her family’s Native American ancestry, and announces the publication of her latest
book, Revisiting Anne Marie: How an Amerindian Woman of Seventeenth-Century Nova Scotia and a DNA
Match Redefine American Heritage. Spanning two centuries, from the early 1600s to the mid-1700s, Revisiting Anne Marie
engages the reader in the history of a family cut from European and Amerindian (Mi'kmaq) cloth, from the family's
brave beginnings in Nova Scotia to its exile in Snow Hill, Maryland, following the Grand Deportation of 1755. The story
of Anne Marie's family comes to life with art, source citations and references, first-hand observations and photographs,
as the author interweaves the inter-relationships that comprise Anne Marie's extended family in l'Acadie with the
history and politics of the time. Order your copy of Revisiting Anne Marie from Booksurge.com , Abebooks.com, Alibris.com, or order directly from Amazon.com. |
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