FTDNA Y-DNA Baudreau/ Baptiste surname project needs test candidates

Question

Does anyone know a direct male descendant of Urbain Baudreau dit Graveline. 

There is a FTDNA Y-DNA surname project which needs more candidates for comparison. https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/baptiste/activity-feed

Comments

just saw this, which is linked to my ancestor, don't know why the name Baptiste was added to him, somebody having a joke with the name?  Are you rather looking for male descendants rather than ancestors?  I don't qualify, for obvious reason.

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You are absolutely correct. The Y-DNA project needs male direct descendants of Urbain Baudreau dit Graveline in an attempt to prove or disprove the ancestors of a Baptiste surname.

The theory is the son’s middle name Baptiste and sometimes mother’s last name was used in records because the early French government had unjustly executed his father.

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hmm, interesting theory.  By the way, there is no such thing as ''middle name'' in French, they are ALL ''given names''.  And the man created as Jean Baptiste with Baptiste used as LNAB is set to merge into his correct name at birth and all his wives.  He was Jean Baptiste Baudreau.

Doesn't need to be an execution for kids to go by another name, the mechanism of ''dit names'' are multiple.  Sometimes the son or daughter will be listed with the parent's given name as a dit name, like Jean Joubert ''de'' Jacques is how it starts (Jean Joubert Jacques's son - or of Jacques for literal translation), and it then becomes Jean Joubert ''dit'' Jacques (called Jacques), and then next generation somebody omits the Joubert and the kids get named ''Jacques'' as a last name at birth.

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Love your Directness!  I know I sure need help in I nderstandng how to interpret DNA.

But not enough time at this time of my life