DNA indicates Marie (Brake) Companion was the daughter of James Brake and Susannah, linking her maternal line to the historic Mi’kmaq women of Newfoundland’s Bay of Islands.
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Detailing, compiling and referencing the mysterious Picco family of Bay d'Espoir, Fortune Bay and Burin, Newfoundland.
Marie Brake Companion of the Bay of Islands shares mtDNA with several other ancestral Mi'kmaq women.
Recently found and released by Newfoundland genealogist and researcher Gail Murphy Taylor, the Thomas Bailey Ledgers cover a period from 1809 to at least the 1860s. The first found of…
Mi’kmaq Miawpukek First Nation initiates the "largest DNA genealogy study of a First Nations group in Canada.”
The Taylor's of Grand Bruit and early Bay of Islands Blanchard wife get added to the ever-growing list of related maternal Newfoundland ancestors.
When Captain Jock Mitchell, Chief of Newfoundland's Mi'kmaq in 1843, discovers heinous crimes amongst his people, he travels to Harbour Breton for justice.
George Prosser of Nova Scotia brings a new family story that brings several new elements to several families in Isle Aux Morts & the Blanchard's of the Bay of Islands.
The Western-Upper Placentia Bay Series strives to fill the gaps in the families in the area that have been lost to time due to the loss of parish records. The Ryan family of Presque.