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This image displays an AncestryDNA ethnicity report for an individual named Gale. At the top, a world map is overlaid with color-coded regions indicating ethnic origins. Each region corresponds to a percentage breakdown listed below the map, highlighting Gale’s ancestry across Europe and beyond.
The ethnicity breakdown is represented by a pie chart and accompanying list:
- Great Britain: 36% (yellow)
- Europe South: 23% (green)
- Europe West: 20% (teal)
- Iberian Peninsula: 7% (blue)
- Ireland/Scotland/Wales: 7% (light green)
- Scandinavia: 3% (purple)
- Europe East: 2% (light purple)
- Finland/Northwest Russia: less than 1% (dark purple)
- Polynesia: less than 1% (red)
In the "Migrations" section, a highlighted orange marker identifies ancestral connection to the Saint Lawrence River French Settlers, indicating Gale’s lineage includes early French settlers who migrated to the Saint Lawrence River Valley in North America.
The map visually connects European ethnic regions and migratory routes to North America, offering a geographic view of Gale’s diverse heritage, largely concentrated in Western and Southern Europe with minor ancestral traces in Northern and Eastern Europe and Polynesia.
Gale LaJoye grew up and lives in Marquette, Michigan. It is here that LaJoye began and continues to study how people respond to situations and each other. Over time, LaJoye has learned how to integrate his observations into funny and poignant stories without words - stories that turn sorrow into joy and inspire us to embrace life. In college, he enrolled in pre-law. When required to take a humanities or theatre course, LaJoye chose theatre. In 1973, LaJoye ran off to Florida to be with the "greatest show on earth" - Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. While with the circus, he mastered the art of gesture, silent communication, and poignant short story telling. Within four years LaJoye became "Boss Clown" - one of the highest honors in the circus tradition. After premiering Snowflake in 1990, LaJoye embarked on a global tour. LaJoye's Snowflake has toured through Asia, South America, Australia, Mexico, Canada and the United States. Hailed by critics and audiences alike as "a must see," LaJoye has performed Snowflake thousands of times.
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This ancestral chart from Ancestry.com details the lineage of Gale Francis LaJoye, born on August 8, 1950, in Hancock, Michigan. The chart documents four generations of ancestry through the LaJoye and Goodreau family lines with strong ties to Michigan and French-speaking regions of Canada, particularly Quebec.
- Self: Gale Francis LaJoye
- Born: August 8, 1950, in Hancock, MI
- Married Dorothy Marie Janke on August 27, 2006, in Marquette, MI
- Parents:
- Louis John LaJoye: Born December 14, 1916, in Michigan; married May 6, 1939, in L’Anse, MI; died December 17, 1975, in Escanaba, MI
- Eileen Mary Goodreau: Born April 19, 1920, in L’Anse, MI; died August 26, 2011, in Negaunee, MI
- Grandparents:
- Telesphore LaJoye (Farmer): Born January 4, 1893, in Michigan; married March 13, 1913, in Assissins, MI; died August 17, 1928, in Negaunee, MI
- Amelia Sirard: Born 1893 in Michigan; died 1951 in Baraga, MI
- Homer Alphonse Goodreau: Born May 29, 1893, in L’Anse, MI; married May 4, 1916; died September 1942 in L’Anse, MI
- Grace Loretto Gallano: Born September 8, 1894, in Baraga County, MI; died June 13, 1970, in L’Anse, MI
- Great-Grandparents:
- Charles Amable LaJoye: Born August 1869 in Muskellunge, Quebec; died 1927 in Baraga, MI
- Heremine Laurin: Born August 1869 in Quebec; died 1942 in Baraga, MI
- Aldrich Sirard: Born 1862 in Quebec
- Emmeline Vezinia: Born May 5, 1867, in St. Roch, Quebec; died February 16, 1940, in Baraga, MI
- Euphine (Fame) Goodreau: Born October 11, 1854, in Canada; married September 25, 1879, in L’Anse, MI; died May 7, 1917, in L’Anse, MI
- Olive A. Allie: Born July 1, 1860, in Cooperstown, WI; died March 5, 1934, in L’Anse, MI
- Alexandre Gallano (Galarneau): Born 1843 in St. Timothee, Quebec; married June 9, 1872, in St. Hermenegild, Quebec
- Marie Anne Turgeon: Born April 15, 1851, in Rock Forest, Sherbrooke, Quebec; died 1937 in Baraga, MI
The chart reveals Gale LaJoye’s deep ancestral connections to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and French Canada, especially Quebec. It documents a long history of migration, marriage, and settlement among French-Canadian families in Michigan towns such as Baraga, L’Anse, Negaunee, and Escanaba.
