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From: Paul LeBlanc <>
Subject: MtDNA explanation Please
Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 18:55:04 -0600
References: <000701c4f053$dc695960$0200a8c0@Seymour> <41D73A3F.30605@fltg.net>
In-Reply-To: <41D73A3F.30605@fltg.net>


Gordon

Could you explain MtDNA (and its male equivelent) African Eve, all
female line to continent of origion, R. Lambert and unidentified
founding mothers.

Can you recomend some web sites?

Paul Le B

wrote:

> Hi Henry,
>
> If you're interested -- I'm a population geneticist by training (a
> biology teacher by profession) -- while I haven't actually performed
> human DNA analysis myself, I'm quite familiar with the technique and
> could explain it if you (or anyone else, for that matter) are
> interested in knowing how it works. It's an intriguing tool, but has
> fairly limited applications which would be of interest to
> genealogists. There are two primary uses we family researchers might
> want it for; it's useful when there's a possibility of a mixed ethnic
> heritage from two very different racial backgrounds; and it can be
> used to establish paternity in cases of disputed lineage (as in the
> claim, later found to be true, that Thomas Jefferson had had children
> by one of his African-American slaves).
>
> I can describe further for anyone who's interested -- perhaps off the
> listserv, unless there's a lot of interest?
>
> cheers,
>
> Gordon
>
> cheers,
>
> Gordon
>
> Henry Seymour wrote:
>
>> This is the situation that proponents offer for using DNA analysis. I
>> don't
>> know enough about it myself. In fact, I haven't heard of many
>> Cajuns/Acadians talking about taking the DNA analysis. Does anyone
>> have any
>> experience with this new tool?
>>
>> Henry
>>
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Lucie LeBlanc Consentino [mailto:]
>>> Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 5:31 PM
>>> To:
>>> Subject: [ACADIAN-CAJUN] Daniel LeBlanc's father was not Rene LeBlanc
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Everybody,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Just for everybody to know: the origins of Daniel LeBlanc,
>>> progenitor of
>>> all the Acadian LeBlancs, is unknown. Some websites claim that his
>>> father
>>> was a Rene LeBlanc - that just isn't so. It seems that everyone
>>> wants to
>>> either have Native lineage, whether or not it exists, or want to
>>> find their
>>> line in France, whether or not it is true.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> As you likely know, many many records were destroyed during the
>>> Deportation
>>> and then the French Revolution did not help - consequently, there
>>> are some
>>> Ancestors whose origin we might never know unless new information is
>>> found
>>> somewhere, perhaps in France, once the government centralizes its
>>> information.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Happy New Year to all!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Lucie LeBlanc Consentino
>>>
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