Proving immigrant origins may seem daunting, especially when the family lived hundreds of years ago. This presentation shows how to navigate multiple border crossings, name changes, and cultural challenges and apply DNA techniques to trace a family of Canadian immigrants from town to town. The right combination of documentary evidence and biological evidence, coupled with sound methodology, reveals the origins of this family.
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Great presentation. The diligence on the documentary research will be very helpful. The “French Canadians shared ancestral roots” chart is great. Had not heard this before. Thank you, thank you!
Chris
Amazing job on this webinar! I found it very helpful and explained very well. Thank you so much! Kathy
I watched this from the LIbrary and was super impressed with the presentation. Thank you so much for all the information you have shared, it was so helpful.
It’s pretty rare in my experience for someone with the chops to pull off such a research project to be able to communicate it so effectively and with such fluidity. I wish to thank Mr. Ouimette for the obvious preparatory work he put into this presentation for our benefit.
Brilliant! I’m going to have to watch it again. Some slides went by fast. Thank you!
David’s masterful description of the process of forming the various hypotheses then methodically working through them is a must-learn skill for all genealogists. Once again the master teacher shows us the way! Thanks, David!
Building family trees on the witness and sponsors can provide key information on the relationships. I’m inspired!
A great presentation, full of reminders of what “reasonably exhaustive” research actually means, when it needs to include DNA evidence in addition to genealogical evidence, and how to structure that part of one’s research to pull out answers that might otherwise never be as certain.