Catherine Richard was born about 1663 in Port Royal, now Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, to Michel Richard dit Sansoucy and Madeleine Blanchard. When Catherine was born, Acadia had been settled by the French but had fallen to the English in 1654. France could no longer send settlers, and neither did England. Until 1670, Acadia lived …
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Mitotree Sprouts 12,773 NEW Branches and Includes Ancient DNA
FamilyTreeDNA has released the brand-new Mitotree, version 2025.10.24! Mitotree has sprouted 12,773 new branches, a 30% increase in size in just seven months! Chart courtesy of FamilyTreeDNA, click to enlarge The new Mitotree has a total of 53,856 branches utilizing 342,000 full sequence samples from multiple sources: 267,000 from FamilyTreeDNA full sequence tests 50,000 from …
François Broussard (1653-1716), Intractable Acadian – 52 Ancestors #463
François Broussard was born about 1653, probably in France. If he was born in Acadia, neither of his parents nor any siblings survived to the first Acadian census in 1671. Neither is François present in that census, so there is speculation that he arrived in 1671 aboard the ship, L’Oranger, with about 60 other young …