Good afternoon,
I hope my email finds you doing well and enjoying the beauty of the fall season.
As many of you may participate in the Acadian Amerindian Ancestry and other related Family Tree DNA projects, as did the late and much-missed Paul Lewis Le Blanc, the founder of this page and an avid participant in DNA testing as long as I can remember, I am forwarding (for your information) an announcement of a new administrator who has just joined our project team. We welcome Gordon Lavoie aboard!

Please welcome new Administrator, Gordon Lavoie to our Acadian Amerindian Ancestry DNA Project team. Gordon, as a member of the Acadian Amerindian Ancestry DNA Project,
is a regular contributor to the dialog on the members-only "Activity
Feed" where he frequently responds, in detail, to questions about DNA
haplogroups and the genealogical connections among our project members
-- with references! While I
was writing an email to him, thanking him for his kindness and
well-considered responses to our project members' questions on our site,
it came to me that I should ask Gordon to join our project as an
Administrator. So, I followed my instincts, asked Gordon to join us, and
was so delighted when he accepted and then came aboard. As
background, Gordon Lavoie was raised in St. Edward, PEI, and after
graduating from Tignish Regional High School, he attended the University
of Prince Edward Island. Gordon completed his studies at Laval
University in 1982 where he earned an honours specialization in
Linguistics. Back in PEI, Gordon embarked on a 33-year journey with the
Federal Government in a variety of positions, retiring from Public
Safety Canada in 2015. Gordon has, and continues to volunteer time on
various community organizations and projects. He
is currently President of the "Conseil d'administration du Musée
Acadien" in Miscouche. Gordon is an avid and experienced genealogist and
hosts a database at the Acadian Museum Research Centre which helps
300,000 plus Acadian descendants to connect with their Acadian
ancestors, who arrived in Acadia from France some 400 years ago. Most
important to new and long-time project members, Gordon is "one of us"
and his knowledge of our Acadian - Amerindian lineages, the haplogroups
that arise from Acadian Amerindian Ancestry DNA project data, and
respect for the value of DNA analysis to genealogical research, are best
expressed in his professional signature:: Gordon's
DNA signature: mtDNA - U6a7a1a (Lejeune - Acadian) and Y-DNA -
R-BY41645 (de la Voye - French-Canadian) - or simply, a person.
Signature
ADN de Gordon : ADNmt - U6a7a1a (Lejeune - Acadien) et ADNy - R-BY41645
(de la Voye - Canadien-français) - ou tout simplement, une personne.
Originally posted 10/2/203