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From: Orin Wells <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Any Huguenot DNA studies?
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 22:30:21 -0700
In-Reply-To: <6f.1a1c007a.28c5abd4@aol.com>


At 12:00 AM 9/4/01 -0400, Steve wrote:
>In my research of the surname PRESANT, different branches of relations around
>the world with this name consistantly claim from oral history it is of
>Huguenot (French Protestant) origins. But I cannot prove this by normal
>genealogy research. Is anybody out there doing any DNA studies for those
>people with Huguenot, or Walloon backgrounds?

My wife has Huguenot ancestry when they partly fled to Germany. But, I
think it would be very difficult to prove Huguenot ancestry as it is
something like trying to prove early Lutheran ancestry from Germany. It
wasn't a genetic connection but rather a religious and sometimes political
one. There are no Huguenot genes or DNA other than if you could identify
some family as being 100% Huguenot and tie into that. Even then how would
you determine that you didn't have the brother who remained a Catholic as
your ancestor.

Orin R. Wells
Wells Family Research Association
P. O. Box 5427
Kent, Washington 98064-5427
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