The DNA Test
When I left off the last post, my first genealogy post, I stated that have my family tree dating back to the 17th century when my ancestors first came to "Nouvelle France" was good enough for me. And so that is where it remained for over 30 years. In the Fall of 2018, my oldest daughter sent my wife and I a copy of her DNA tests that she had analyzed by the company 23andme . She had the complete set of DNA tests done which not only shows who here DNA relatives where but gave a complete health + ancestry report based on her DNA profile. The DNA profile showed her ethnicity plus possible siblings and relatives. I proposed to my wife that we should buy DNA kits and see what it would tell us about our ancestry. We chose Ancestry .ca because it seemed to be more focused on genealogy. The kits arrived between Christmas and New Years. We decided to wait until after the holidays because we did not want the samples to be lost in the holiday mail rush. The first part of January 20...