This is the second article in the FOCUS series. You can read the first article, FOCUS – A New Series Focused on Breaking Down Brick Walls, here. DNA matches without trees, or bare-bones shrunken trees, can be a significant roadblock whether you’re looking at autosomal, Y-DNA, or mitochondrial DNA matches. To help resolve that issue, …
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Guillaume Blanchard (c1650 – 1715/1717), Founder of “Village des Blanchard” at Petitcodiac – 52 Ancestors #485
Guillaume Blanchard was born about 1650 in Port Royal to Jean Blanchard and Radegonde Lambert. In 1650, the first settlers hadn’t yet been granted land upriver at Belle Isle, so Guillaume would have been born here, in Port Royal, where his parents had been settled for at least a decade. But not settled peaceably. Acadia …
FOCUS – A New Series Focused on Breaking Down Brick Walls
When I teach about genetic genealogy, people often ask, “What’s next? How can I break down my brick wall?” Sometimes I can reply that a Y-DNA test or mitochondrial DNA will help them under specific circumstances. But more often than not, what they really need is a precise, step-by-step methodology that includes autosomal DNA and …