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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Josephte by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
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re: Josephte Lesage b. 1761, google translation, "all these baptisms are registered at Cap Sante, Portneuf, Quebec, Canada". I found this in her mothers profile/records on ancestry.com
I have gone through the online copies of the parish records. She's not in there, but it looks like some records for 1761 are missing. So I'll go with the 1761 birth year. I don't know how to get to the civil copies in the Canadian Archives, but maybe a distant cousin can help.
Don't you love it when that happens? It would make sense that Jean Bernadin was a soldier considering his dit name. By all means update his profile, especially if you have sources to document it. Ed
Pionnier et Soldat de Carignan dans la campagnie de M. de Muy. he married Marie Barbe Sylvestre on January 8, 1686 in Canada. Gail
Also in my research I have: Jean Bernardin Lesage (1660- born in Ste-Marie-de-la-Ville-Racouss, Turin, Torino,Peimonte, Italy. Gail