(Mic Mac woman) PROVEN WRONG Lambert (Micmac) - Radegonde Lambert 's mother IS Mi’kmaq -- (Mic Mac woman) NOT PROVEN WRONG !

Roland, would dna prove or disprove the ethnicity of Radegonde Lambert? She is my 11th great grandmother, and I would be interested in finding out.

If you have Radegonde Lambert in your ancestry, as I do, then consider her Mi’kmaq. I doubt that the nay sayers will ever find documentation otherwise. the problem is that very little documentation has survived early Acadian hostilities.

I have accepted Justin invitation to collaborate on our genealogy. We may find something in the future that will strengthen our resolve to verify the truth!

Roly

I have sent away for the ydna test to have my 81 year old uncle's autosomal dna done, that should at least tell us how much Native American is in his blood. Of course, I trace to several women, on both my paternal grandfather, and my paternal grandmother's sides. We should hopefully know by the first of the year. It would be great to find out before the first week in December, for his birthday. We are also doing the Chabot (Shepard) male line with his dna.

Hi Barbara
Re: your 81 year old Uncle.

Is this (Uncle) on the SHEPARD side or SODERBOM of your family This would certainly confirm if you suspect a family linkage to a father to son (direct) native lineage. I note that you have indirect lineage to Randegonde Lambert which could not indicate Randegonde's haplogroup. . I also have indirect lineage so the same thing applies. But this doesn't matter. We are still the sum of all our grandparents. Randegonde Lambert is M'kmaq. DNA can't disprove this!
Roly

Roland Joseph Eugene Belanger My uncle is a Shepard, so we should be able to get the Chabot line straight back to France, doing a 37 marker on that one. I'm hoping that the tests come tomorrow! There is NA on both his parents' sides.

Genealogist, Lucie LeBlanc Consentino, says: Radegonde Lambert married Jean Blanchard (not Jean-Baptiste) and their parents are unknown.
BLANCHARD, Jean, came from France with his wife, according to Jean LeBlanc, husband of his great-granddaughter Françoise Blanchard (Doc. inéd., Vol. III, p. 43). The deposition of Françoise's nephews Joseph and Simon-Pierre Trahan is to the same effect (ibid., p. 123). Both depositions mistakenly give Guillaume as the ancestor's given name. Jean LeBlanc makes an additional error regarding the name of Jean Blanchard's wife, calling her Huguette Poirier. The censuses of 1671 and 1686 meanwhile clearly show that she was named Radegonde Lambert (see DGFA-1, pp. 143-144). The source of these errors is probably a simple confusion arising from the fact that Jean LeBlanc?s wife's grandfather Martin Blanchard had a brother Guillaume who was married to a woman named Huguette, as this writer explained in an article published in 1984 (SHA, Vol. XV, pp. 116-117). This Huguette was not named Poirier, however, but Gougeon, although her mother, Jeanne Chebrat, had married a man named Jean Poirier before she wed Huguette's father Antoine Gougeon, and all her male-line descendants in Acadia were Poiriers. Unfortunately, we do not know just what questions Jean LeBlanc asked in trying to establish the Blanchard lineage, but he might certainly have had the impression that Huguette was a Poirier from the fact that so many of her relatives were Poiriers, including her grandnephew Joseph, who was also on Belle-Île in 1767 (see Doc. inéd., Vol. III, pp. 13-15).

Source: Acadian Origins According to the Depositions Made by Their Descendants at Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1767 by Stephen A. White, January 17, 2005