ALT Over thirty years, Lauzon began looking for evidence of this ancestry in church and government records; at one point, she thought she had found an ancestor five generations back, but it turned out to be basically a dead end. She brought her research to the Métis Nation of Ontario—an organization with a history of notorious lenience in accepting applications with scant evidence—but was advised that she did not have sufficient basis for her application. She engaged a genealogist, who suggested Lauzon get a genealogy test. Lauzon said that she finally received the results of a 23andMe test in 2022. “What is clear is that what I thought my ancestry was, is most likely not what it is,” Lauzon admitted in her letter to The Walrus. On its website, 23andMe notes that it has “several features that can reveal genetic evidence of Indigenous American ancestry, although they are not considered a confirmatory test or proof of such ancestry in a legal context.”