Mervin Sonnier
Honor Code SignatorySigned 1 Apr 2023 | 7,423 contributions | 222 thank-yous | 8,892 connections
Signed 1 Apr 2023 | 7,423 contributions | 222 thank-yous | 8,892 connections
Mervin P. Sonnier
Born 1940s.
Ancestors 
Son of Yeve Sonnier
and Oline (Daigle) Sonnier
Brother of
[private sister (1930s - unknown)], Wilda Sonnier, Hilbert Sonnier, [private sister (1940s - unknown)], [private brother (1940s - unknown)], [private sister (1940s - unknown)] and [private sister (1950s - unknown)]
Descendants 
Father of
[private son (1960s - unknown)], [private son (1960s - unknown)] and [private daughter (1970s - unknown)]
Profile last modified
| Created 30 Mar 2023
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Mervin Paul Sonnier was born in Church Point, Acadia Parish, Louisiana, on Dec. 20 , 1942. He grew up on a small tenant farm near Church Point. His father, Yeve Sonnier, was a sharecropper. Mervin graduated an honor student from Church Point High School in 1961. He later attended T. H. Harris Vocational Technical School in Opelousas, St. Landry, Louisiana and majored in Business Administration. Most of his career life has been in the manufacturing field, specializing in Material and Inventory Control and Shipping and Receiving.
His father, Yeve Sonnier, is a descendant of Louis Pierre Saulnier dit Letang and Marie Louise Bastineau dit Peltier.
His mother, Oline Daigle, is a descendant of Etienne Daigle III and Marie Anne Taillon.
His grandmother, Marie Eve LeBleu, is a descendant of Germain Doucet and an Unknown from the Abenaki Nation.
Sources
- Firsthand information. Entered by Mervin Sonnier at registration.
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- private children's names (3)
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mervin by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Mervin:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mervin by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Mervin:
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~1.56%
D Andrepont
:
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Deidre (Doucet) Pritchard :
MyHeritage DNA
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~0.39%
Lionel LaVergne :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A424977 [compare]
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Featured National Park champion connections: Mervin is 17 degrees from Theodore Roosevelt, 23 degrees from Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, 18 degrees from George Catlin, 18 degrees from Marjory Douglas, 22 degrees from Sueko Embrey, 19 degrees from George Grinnell, 29 degrees from Anton Kröller, 21 degrees from Stephen Mather, 24 degrees from Kara McKean, 20 degrees from John Muir, 17 degrees from Victoria Hanover and 27 degrees from Charles Young on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
Kathy Zipperer, mentor
Kathy
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Acadians
On the locations, do you have a source for either of these? This was a project protected profile and communication and documentation is important to propose (in a comment on the profile), so it can be evaluated by the project managers. I didn't see a source added when you made the edit. Can you post it to the comment I left on the profile, please.
Thank yuou, Cindy Bourque Cooper, co-leader, Acadians Project.
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