First off a big thanks to Gary for all the excellent work. Red River Ancestry has been instrumental in providing me a working knowledge of my birth father's heritage.
I was adopted in March 1958 and conceived in the summer of 57'. I have connected very positively with my birth mother and she has shared that my birth-father was named Louie Lee (spelling uncertain). They had a brief affair and I am the result LOL
I have next to no information on Louie Lee so I took to DNA analysis and was beyond fortunate to find a significant match with a descendant of Daniel Lewis McAuley 1874-1942 and Lucie Fontaine 1878-1946.
The young man I matched with shared 255.6 centimorgans with me and his mother even more at 495.4 cms. We are now testing an uncle of the mother with the expected result of 700-1000 cms. What all this means is that Louie Lee (my birth father) is a likely 1/2 sibling to the uncle we are testing.
I am fortunate that through DNA I also match though more distantly with a descendant of the Gullion family of Northern Alberta. There, I connect courtesy of Marie (Mary Jane) Brazeau 1847-1896 who married Daniel's father, John McAuley 1836-1893.
Finally, I also connected and share DNA with a fellow who descends from Jerome Pontbriand Dit Fontaine b. 1844 (Lucie's uncle). Since he had his family tree available we were able to measure out the generations... he is a likely 4th cousin to me. Red River Ancestry has been so helpful for me that I was very pleasantly surprised that Gary Still's own family connects via marriage to the Fontaines. How cool is that
The general feeling is that my birth-father was himself, adopted out. I have next to no information on him, personally. He was born circa 1928 and was apparently a fixture around the Canadian Legions in Victoria BC in the 1960s and 70s frequently performing with his guitar. I have few if any DNA matches with the surname, Lee and no idea of whom his mother might have been.
Thanks again for admission to the site