This book is collection of information about the reason for my weird DNA results of no French-Canadian ethnicity results, with most of the records in French-Canada. My mom’s family were immigrants in the 1940s.

The discrepancy too large to ignore. There had to be an explanation.

My answer is between the lines of the records I found. Now it’s a reference book that’s a combination of a how-to book, a family history I have known, a family history lost, and historical events that seem to give a reason and…clues to the answer.

The narrative itself is written in the records. Simple enough a structure that you could do it yourself.

You deserve an answer to your weird DNA test results that you don’t understand and a process on how to find it. I would not call this book complete, but I will say it is satisfying to know this much about my heritage thought to be lost.

What I knew I had at the beginning of this project was the long past family tree of New France and my recent family history. What’s in-between is a ‘spaghetti bowl’ of records I couldn’t sort.

It would take six years to find a focus. I would search for the places my ancestors lived that apparently was not Canada but was exactly the places on the map of the 1755 Deportation of the Acadians.

Spoiler alert: all four of my grandparent’s family lines are verified. .