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.