This was sent to me, along with a request to forward it to the list. I thought it was pretty interesting! cheers, Gordon Bonnet Trumansburg NY -------- Original Message -------- Subject: ANNE MARIE AND RÉNÉ RIMABULT....INITIAL mtDNA TESTING RESULTS Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 08:51:13 -0400 From: Erich v. Burton <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Hi, The link below provides new information on the ancestry of Anne Marie married to Réné Rimbault, there is only one mtDNA result so far, but the result is interesting... http://genforum.genealogy.com/benoit/messages/2347.html Perhaps you can post something on the forum below as I am not subscribed to that forum [email protected] Erich From: Gordon Bonnet [mailto: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 5:23 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [ACADIAN-CAJUN] Metis question Hi again, I have read, in various sources, that two women who were the ancestors of a lot of us Cajuns were Metis or full-blood Native American. Stephen White's Dictionnaire doesn't address this theory for either of the women in question, which makes me think that either a) it's been disproven for one or both of them, or b) there's not enough evidence either way. The first one is Radegonde Lambert, who was b. ca. 1621 and m. Jean Blanchard. Leopold Lanctot believed that she was the daughter of a Frenchman named Pierre Lambert and a Micmac woman, and I've seen this in several other places as well. The second is Anne Marie, who m. (1) ___ Pinet and (2) Rene Rimbault. Bona Arsenault says "probablement une metisse," but SAW doesn't address this theory at all and calls her "origine inconnue." Can anyone on the list address this? Sometimes these "stories" have a basis in fact, and sometimes they're just fabrications, and I'd like to know which category these fall into (as I descend from both women). Thanks for any insights... cheers, Gordon Bonnet Trumansburg NY

Interesting, yes, but! I'm a descendant, also, of Anne Marie; but I'm not ready to jump on any DNA bandwagon. I call attention to the statements in the link given by Couzin Gordon, the following: " The descendant's mtDNA test results revealed that the mutations in her mtDNA links her to Haplogroup A. This haplogroup is traceable to the Siberian-Arctic/Aleutian Indians. The Inuit peoples are known to have migrated East from the Arctic Regions, crossing Canada, and later dropping down into Newfoundland and Nova Scotia ..... Since haplogroup A is consistent with a mother that has North American Ancestry and not European ancestry, the initial test indicates that Anne Marie, the wife of Réné Rimbault was of Aboriginal-Indian-Native Ancestry and was not of European French descent." There are scientists currently bringing forth theories that there was too much water for a Pacific land bridge from Asia to Alaska, that the N. American aboriginals are more closely related to Europeans, ancestors having crossed the Atlantic to Nova Scotia, and having spread westward, killing animals with Clovis points, patented like those of the France region. I take this to mean that the aboriginals were descended from Europeans! So much for science! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon Bonnet" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 10:05 AM Subject: [ACADIAN-CAJUN] [Fwd: ANNE MARIE AND RÉNÉ RIMBAULT....INITIAL mtDNA TESTING RESULTS]> This was sent to me, along with a request to forward it to the list. I thought it was pretty interesting! > cheers, > Gordon Bonnet> Trumansburg NY > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: ANNE MARIE AND RÉNÉ RIMABULT....INITIAL mtDNA TESTING RESULTS > Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 08:51:13 -0400 > From: Erich v. Burton <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > > Hi, > > The link below provides new information on the ancestry of Anne Marie > married to Réné Rimbault, there is only one mtDNA result so far, but the > result is interesting... > http://genforum.genealogy.com/benoit/messages/2347.html >