Established 2014, the David dit Saint Michel Family Tree DNA Project is a genealogical and Y-DNA study that is open to all male descendants of Jean Pierre David dit Saint Michel and ancestors throughout Nouvelle France (New France) and the seat of the David dit Saint Michel family ..... France. Jean Pierre David dit Saint Michel was a master blacksmith for the King of France, Louis XV, at the Fortress of Louisbourg from the early 1720's to the late 1750's. He was born between 1699 and 1700 in the Parish of Saint Nazaire, Diocese of Nantes, Lorie-Inférieure, Bretagne, France. Jean Pierre's family life story is so very much akin to the true life stories that are told over and over again of all French descendant and Acadian families that migrated from France to the new world in the 17th and 18th centuries. There, in Nouvelle France, they prospered, applied their trades and raised large families. Although they were a peace minded people, they would suffer great losses of life and property at the hands of the British Empire.