When I posted the CTV News report, Adopted woman travels from Denmark to N.S. to discover her roots, a couple of ago on the Acadian & French-Canadian Genealogy & History Facebook group, I thought it would generate a bit of interest. I was surprised, however, to see a few dozen liked the article and my post received about two dozen comments, including comments from the woman featured in the article.
The news report is about Montreal-born Jo-Ann Hatting who was adopted at birth. Ms. Hatting said, “When I was approximately three, we immigrated to Rhode Island, and from there we went to New Jersey and from there to South Carolina and from there to Denmark.”
After searching for her family for 25 years, Ms. Hatting submitted her DNA to a database in the United States.
The search turned up more than 1,000 cousins and lead to her paternal Acadian roots in Pubnico, Nova Scotia. Since reading the article, I learned on Wikipedia that Pubnico “holds the distinction of being the oldest Acadian community still inhabited mainly by Acadians.” It was founded by Philippe Mius d’Entremont in 1653, and most of the town’s residents today are descendants of its founder.
You can read the rest of the news report here.
