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Make 2009 the year you discover your own heritage.  Thanks to all who returned to their roots in Nova Scotia this summer and celebrated their heritage at the not-to-be-missed 2009 Mi'kmaq-Acadian Reunion at the Fort Point Museum in La Have, Nova Scotia on August 21st and 22nd. This was a wonderful celebration of the families and history that came before us - and emphasized the traditions of sustainability that carried our ancestors in the past -- and will carry us forward into the future!  And now, as it was played LIVE IN LA HAVE and recorded LIVE IN LA (we're talking about the Louisiana LA and not the city LA, of course!!), 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!.


Make 2009 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:

 

Amerindian Heritage Research

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.

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.