Michele Doucette holds a Master’s Degree in Literacy Education from Mount Saint Vincent University (Halifax, Nova Scotia). A native of Truro, Nova Scotia, she has been living on the west coast of Newfoundland since 1985. Having spent 20 years compiling, validating and sourcing information, as well as collecting pertinent documents, she has meticulously taken the time to piece her genealogy together, generation by generation. Complete with detailed narrative reports, consanguinity charts, scanned copies of certificates and up-to-date DNA testing information; the book also contains both a kinship list as well as a marriage list for quick referencing.