Update to Cote Ouellette Y-DNA

Update to Cote Ouellette Y-DNA*

I want to add while I'm thinking of it that there was a fairly serious error made on the Kisikew blog which has yet to be corrected about the Haplogroup Y-DNA studies of the North American Côté origins*. To make this brief, the cited "French Heritage" study traces back to people with an ancestor surnamed Côté who is believed to have originated in France; the North American Côtés Simon is related to, from the Jesuit Huron colony (see below), have no demonstrable or documented ancestors in France, so no Indigenous Côté have been tested to my knowledge. North American Côtés who have been tested and have documented a Côté ancestor in France (documented with records such as birth, baptism, and so on) do not exist as far as we know, so belief in an origin in France is of the nature of a legend. His patronymic Côté ancestor did not spell the patronym that way anyway, later generations did though as they became enculturated by francophone priests who kept records. Anyway probably will write more about this later. ;) Be aware also that having the same surname doesn't necessarily mean people are related and is no indication of ethnicity. 8) Most times when Indigenous peoples were christianised in the northeast, the first ancestor so named had his or her surname (often a descriptive one such as Rose or Laviolette) plucked out of the air by the priests. They were not translations of a name, as happened in the west later on.

Côté - americanised / anglicised in North America as Cody, Cote, Coty, and probably other variants such Coda, Costa, and Cota. Originated in North America as an Acadien L'nuk Mi'kmaq patronym, and descendants of one of the first people with that patronym in North America 400+ years ago have "Huron Northern Iroquois" Wendat Wyandot ancestry from Anne Martin Matchonon (d. 1649), Cord Clan Attigneenongnahac of the Ile d'Orléans settlement the Jesuits established for their Huron converts (see the Jesuit Relations Vol I Part IV).

-- Kisikewiskw first posted 19 Mar 2011 to Indigenous News forum, revised 20 Feb 2012.
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* See Cote Ouellette Y-DNA

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