Day: September 25, 2021

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DNA: Great-great grandparents Joseph and Philomene

September 25, 2021November 23, 2021

There is a Joseph Robitaille, a 20-yr-old Canadian shoemaker, on the 1880 census for Cook County, IL, living as a boarder in Chicago with another Canadian shoemaker. Two years later (the same year in which Joseph and Philomene married), there […]

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DNA Update: 1% France

September 25, 2021September 25, 2021

This is actually the most surprising part of the report. Apart from Americans, French people are the majority in my family tree. My grandmother on my father’s side was born in France and all her ancestors were from France. My […]