Revisiting Anne Marie   Ms. Rundquist continues her research of the North American - Amerindian branch of her family’s heritage and celebrates her family’s Native American ancestry. Marie Rundquist announces that her book, Revisiting Anne Marie, is in print and is now available for sale through the CreateSpace (formerly Book Surge) publishing and distribution channel. Click the following link to order: Revisiting Anne Marie: How an Amerindian Woman of Seventeenth-Century Nova Scotia and a DNA Match Redefine American Heritage.  The subject of the book, Anne Marie Rimbault, also referenced as Anne Marie (?), is a woman of 17th-century Port Royal Nova Scotia.    While of Native American (Amerindian) ancestry, as discovered by the book's author in 2006, by way of her "Native American" DNA test result, Anne Marie Rimbault was simply a noble farmer's wife who exists in the records, as limited as they are for the period, as married (first) to the unknown Pinet, then (second) to Rene Rimbault -- and it is the excitement of her discovery, and the exploration of her family's diverse Mi'kmaq-Acadian cultural identity that inspires the book's readers. 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.  Discover how DNA, genealogy, and history factor into a search for identity -- and order your copy of Revisiting Anne Marie directly from CreateSpace. Finding Anne Marie   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 (?).     Doucet DNA   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, as related to his paternal ancestor, Germain Doucet, born 1641.  Broome DNA 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." Cajun DNA While mitochondrial (mtDNA) and Y-chromosome DNA test results have proven infinitely valuable to Amerindian Ancestry out of Acadia project participants interested in discovering the earliest origins of ancestors from Nova Scotia, Gaspe, Quebec, and the Maritime regions and have given our members new avenues for research of ancestors' earliest histories, the Family Tree DNA Family Finder test digs deep into participant autosomal DNA, discovers matching DNA segments that occur within participant information, and correlates these with second, third, fourth, and fifth-cousin relationships -- that would be difficult, if nearly impossible for most to identify using traditional paper-based genealogy research methods. Read the whole story!  Click: Cajun Cousins Bernie David and Steve Simon Discover Shared Heritage, DNA, in the Amerindian Ancestry out of Acadia Family Finder Project.     Autosomal DNA Analysis Autosomal test results, when analyzed against referenced population data, (and cross-referencing other tools, databases, and methods), contribute to trends building among Native American DNA results received from multiple tests and multiple testing companies.    Click here for details.