Tracing Acadian ancestry can be tricky. A lot of information about the old Acadian families comes from compiled genealogies that are rarely sourced.

One exception is Stephen White’s Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes. He cites specific records that support his assertions where they exist. Unfortunately, for my project, his published work has not extended past the first two generations of the first Acadian settlers. And the relationship I’m interested in is between the third and fourth generations.

A critical component to the Peter King project is proving each and every parent-child link for all DNA matches going back to the common ancestor. In this case, I got stuck on one father-son link for the YDNA match whose common ancestor goes back seven generations. So I wrote this report.