Every now and again, Fate just smiles on us genealogists. This time, Fate enlisted the help of my wonderful Campbell cousins. One of my cousins purchased the contents of an abandoned storage unit at auction, sight unseen. He was hoping for the best, and could have chosen to sell the Bible, photos, and tintypes that …
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Huguette Gougeon (c1655-1717), Epidemics and Upheaval – 52 Ancestors #486
Huguette Gougeon was born about 1655 in Port Royal, Acadia, to Antoine Gougeon and Jeanne Chebrat, almost exactly a century before the Acadians would be permanently rounded up and expelled from Acadia. Huguette didn’t know it, but she was giving birth to the expulsion generation – her children, and theirs. Huguette’s mother was a widow …
FOCUS: Step 1 – Seven Solutions for DNA Matches with Absent or Shrunken Trees
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, …