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 …
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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 …
Jeanne Blanchard (c1681–1752/1762): Perseverance – 52 Ancestors #484
Jeanne Blanchard was born about 1681 in Port Royal, Acadia, the fifth child of Guillaume Blanchard and Huguette Gougeon. Jeanne’s life was anything but easy, even by Acadian standards, but it all began normally enough. In the 1686 census, Jeanne is reported as age 5, which places her birth about 1681. She was living with …