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Anyone who has French
Heritage -
French/French-Canadian/Acadian/Métis/Cajun
- ancestors, wherever they
currently reside, can participate in The French
Heritage DNA Project. This includes
men and women who carry a
surname of French origin, or a variant, as well as
women who do not carry a name of that
origin but who have
ancestors who carried one. It also includes
Wallons and Swiss Romans and others of French
speaking European communities.
MALE
PARTICIPANTS
The primary objective
of this project is to identify the Y DNA
signatures
or profiles of our
earliest ancestors by testing present day proven
or alleged male descendants. We hope to provide,
for generations to come, a
DNA benchmark signature for those ancestors. So,
if you are a male descendant of one
of the founding immigrant
ancestors who continues to carry that
French-Canadian/Acadian surname or variation
thereof,
we invite you to join this
project.
A database of these
results will allow others with similar surnames,
or variations including "dit" names,
a standard which they will
be able to match against.
Females born with French
surnames and those males with maternal French
lines will be able to accomplish this by
enlisting the cooperation
of their male relatives who carry the subject
name.
Your male "Y"
chromosome is passed from father to son unchanged
through the generation, (except for a
mutation about once every
200 years). The test of your "Y"
chromosome DNA will provide you with a genetic
signature. Since your
"Y" chromosome has been passed down from
your earliest male ancestor your DNA test
result will be a
representation of that ancestor's genetic
signature.
This genetic signature
will consist of a series of 12, 25, 37, or 67
numbers depending upon the size of the test
you choose. By comparing
your genetic signature to others with your surname
or variations, you will be able to
determine if you are
related.
FEMALE
PARTICIPANTS
As mentioned above,
females will be able to participate in the Y-DNA
aspect of the project by
enlisting the cooperation of their male relatives
who carry the paternal surname.
We also encourage our
French Heritage female descendants to submit their
mtDNA test results. As the mtDNA test
involves your maternal
line, the only requirement for joining is that you
have a French immigrant ancestor in your
maternal line and that you
send us your listing of ascent back to that
immigrant female.
We also accept male mtDNA
test results. Perhaps with both female and male
mtDNA test results we might be able to
establish a databank for
the Daughters of the King (See link to database
of Daughters of the King below).
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