New mtDNA evidence reveals that Sarah Dodge of English Harbour East shares a maternal lineage with Elizabeth Saunders, offering new insight into one of Newfoundland’s founding families.
L-R: Edward Brake (1837-1911), Elizabeth Brake (1819-1893) and Benjamin Brake (1841-1911), grandchildren of Ralph Brake & Jane Matthews. After the publishing of the article concerning the parentage of Marie (Brake)…
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.
The true story of the Clara Mary, a schooner wrecked off Newfoundland's coast in 1871. A tale of survival and betrayal in Placentia Bay.
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.