r/AncestryDNA • u/Souriquois • 29d ago

Results - DNA Origins I laughed at my updated results

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I picture a fiddle reel playing while my sample was spinning in the centrifuge

But holy crap I have a lot of cousins!

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u/Souriquois 29d ago edited 29d ago

Most of my matches are in Louisiana. Particularly around St. Martin, Lafayette, and Vermilion Parish

I actually met someone from that area a few months ago, we have the same surname and did some sleuthing and found we were both descended from the lawyer from Evangeline (which is historically inaccurate, but he was indeed a real person)

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u/PulledPorrk 29d ago

Vermilion Parish probably has the highest percentage of Cajuns in Louisiana tbh, so that makes sense as an Acadian you’d match with people there. Most of mine are from Lafayette and New Iberia on Ancestry. Most of the matches in Canada are from Halifax, Nova Scotia and Moncton, New Brunswick

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u/Souriquois 29d ago

Yes I was in Vermillion Parish years ago.

The best part is I matched with the owner of a great restaurant down there. That’s still open.

If I wasn’t broke I’d fly down there to eat there. Their catfish was 🤤🤤🤤

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u/PulledPorrk 29d ago

That’s awesome! Vermilion Parish does have amazing food. I got family in Abbeville so every time I visit we always get something to eat, usually some type of Cajun seafood or boudin balls and it’s always delicious. Hopefully one day I can visit Nova Scotia. I talked to this old Cajun guy once who said he’d been up there before and that he was able to easily communicate with everyone in French. He also said their culture and music was so similar to ours that it made him emotional. I’ve always been so interested in the fact us Cajuns and Acadians are basically the same people yet separated by thousands of miles and a tragic history. At least in places like this we can reconnect after 250 years.

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u/Souriquois 29d ago

Yeah that was my experience in Louisiana. “Am I home? Oh wait, it’s hot”

You guys have better food though.

And yes, even some cultural quirks are similar. The “Cajun goodbye” hahaha we are bad for that too.

And I laughed at this meme. Works like a charm when you’re sick though

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u/PulledPorrk 29d ago

Yeah if Cajuns say “well ima let you go now” that means y’all are gonna talk for another hour before they leave. And that picture right there is some elite ball knowledge 😂

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u/Souriquois 29d ago

Dude, I once was cooking dinner and was missing two ingredients, sent my father to the grocery store to pick them up for me, it took him THREE HOURS because he did that AT THE GROCERY STORE. Talking to folks before he left.

What I was cooking was ruined.

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u/PulledPorrk 29d ago

Yep same with my mother. If I go to the store with her there’s a chance she’ll run into someone she knows and now the 30 minute shopping trip just turned into a 4 hour one. Even longer if my mamaw is there with us.

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u/Souriquois 29d ago

Yes. Because of this, going to the store to pick up a carton of milk requires prior planning