Pretty much everyone knows what a half sibling is – someone who shares one, but not both parents with each other. If you and your sibling share the same mother, but not the same father (or vice versa), you’re half-siblings. Only one parent is shared between half-siblings. If you share both parents, you’re full siblings. …
Cheat Sheet: Mitochondrial Matches, Haplotype Clusters, and Haplogroups
One of the questions I often receive about mitochondrial DNA matching at FamilyTreeDNA is which mutations are included, which are excluded, from what type of matching, and why. There are three types of matching for full sequence (mtFull) testers. Match page matching Haplotype matching Haplogroup-only matching Each match type is different and provides something unique …
Simon Pelletret (c1610 – 1642/1645): A Walk Through Port Royal – 52 Ancestors #460
Unfortunately, we know very little about Simon Pelletret, one of the founding settlers in Port Royal, Acadia, today’s Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. For decades, we only knew his surname through his daughters. Simon was long deceased by the time the first Acadian census was taken in Port Royal in 1671. In that and subsequent censuses, …