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I wonder if they could check the DNA of the natives that were originally from that area for any "old" Europeans markers or if there was too much mixing from the colonization for such a thing to work.


Unfortunately, the aboriginal population of Newfoundland didn't survive contact with subsequent European settlers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beothuk


You can still get DNA from their bones.




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