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Testing for OPMD, an Inherited Genetic Condition Found in Some French, French-Canadian, Jewish, Spanish, and Japanese Families

Disclaimer: I certainly am not an expert in OPMD or any other medical conditions. However, I became very interested in OPMD when I realized it is frequently found amongst my relatives on the French-Canadian side of my family. (My mother’s ancestry is 100% French-Canadian.) Several of my aunts, uncles, cousins, and more distant relatives appeared to …

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Testing for OPMD, an Inherited Genetic Condition Found in Some French, French-Canadian, Jewish, Spanish, and Japanese Families

Disclaimer: I certainly am not an expert in OPMD or any other medical conditions. However, I became very interested in OPMD when I realized it is frequently found amongst my relatives on the French-Canadian side of my family. (My mother’s ancestry is 100% French-Canadian.) Several of my aunts, uncles, cousins, and more distant relatives appeared to …

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UMFK’s Acadian Archives Digitizes Much of Its Collections of Maine’s French-Acadians

The following is a press release written by the University of Maine at Fort Kent: Newspapers, documents, pictures, scrapbooks, and other records are now available online for people in Maine and across the U.S. Even though northern Maine is still the most Francophone region of the state, there’s been an effort in the past few …

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