Showing posts with label Labelle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Labelle. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Labelle family

Lucie Labelle married Joseph Delphis Tremblay 4 Aug 1879 at Grenville and the parents of Lucie Labelle were identified as François Labelle and Marcelline Lacroix who were themselves married 19 Feb 1855 at Grenville.

M 3 François Labelle et Marcelline Lacroix

Le dix neuf Fevrier mil huit cent cinquante cinq après
la publication du un ban du mariage faite au prone de nos messes
paroissiales et la dispense de deux autre bans accordé par
Rd Monsigneur O'Malley curé de cette paroisse en vertu du _____
qu'il a reçu de la Grandeau Monseigneur Guigues éveque
de Bytown entre François Labelle fils mineur d'Antoine
Labelle journalier et de Clémence Poitevin de cette
paroisse d'une part et Marcelline Lacroix
fille mineure de feu Léon Lacroix et de défunte Marguerite
Forgette Ne s'étant découvert aucun empechement nous pretre soussigné
délégné du consentement des parents, avons reçu leur mutuel
consentement de mariage et leur avons donné la bénédiction
nuptiale en présence de Michel Jammé dit Lamarque
et d'Antoine Labelle parents et amis des époux qui ainsi
que les dits époux ont déclare ne savoir signer

J David Pretre

François Labelle son of AntoineLabelle and Clémence Poitevinwho were themselves married 3 Jun 1834 at Laval.

M Ant. Labelle et Clémence Potevin

L'an mil huit cent trente quatre le trois juin après la publication du
trois bans de mariage aux prones des messes paroissiales des trois Dimanches
derniers entre Antoine Labelle fils mineure de Jean Baptiste Labelle
cultivateur et de défunte Louise Legault, de Ste Rosa, d'une parte et
Clémence Potevin fille mineure de feu Philibert Potevin et de Pauline
Valiquet de cette paroisse d'autre part meme publication ayant été faite
a Ste Rosa, comme il appert par le certificat de Messir Turcotte Pretre
en date du deux du dit mois, ne s'étant trouvé aucun empechement ni formé
d'opposition, Je soussigné Pretre curé de l'agréement des parens ai reçu leur
mutuel consentement de mariage et leur ai donné la bénédiction nuptiale
avec les cérémonies proscrites par la Ste
Eglise en présence de Jean Baptiste Labelle frère de
Martin Migneron Beaufrère de l'époux de Jean
Baptiste Potevin frère de Martin Chalifou beau frère
 de l'épouse lesquels ont déclaré avec les époux, ne devoir signer

Mr Brunet Pretre

Antoine Labelle son of Jean Baptiste Labelle and Louise Legault who were themselves married 11 Jan 1808 at Ste Rose de Lima, Laval.

Mge de J Bte Label et de Marie Legeaux dit Délaurier

L'an mil huit cent huit le onze janvier après la publication de trois bans d'un mariage
faite au prone des messes paroissiales de Ste Rose par trois Dimanches consécu
tifs entre jean baptiste label fils majeur de feu jean baptiste label et de ma
rie josephte valiquet ses père et mère, agricultueur domicilié en cette pa
roisse d'une part et marie legeaux fille majeure de François legeaux
dit délaurier et de susanne joly ses père et mère aussi domicilieé en
cette paroisse d'autre part; ne s'étant trouvé aucun empechement ni op
position quelquanque nous pretre curé de cette paroisse soussigné avons
reçu leur mutuel consentement de mariage et leur avons donné la bénédic
tion nuptiale selon les formes proscriptes par notre mère la sainte
église catholique apostolique et Romaine et de consentement des dits
père et mère des contractants et au présence d'antoine d'a____ amiot
témoins de l'époux et de jean auimet amie et témoins de l'épouse et de plusieurs
autres parents et amis dont trois ont signé avec nous ____ce qui ainsi l'ordré
Lecture faite

bernard berdeau [signed]
Mth groyant d'amour [signed]
Luc Bélair pretre [signed]


Jean Baptiste Label son of Jean Baptiste Label and Marie Josephte Valiquet were themselves married 30 Sep 1771 at St Vincent de Paul, Laval. The priest has entered two marriages together in this section so I will transcribe both of them.

15 M François Danoyer et Louise Ouellet
16 M Jean Baptiste Label et Marie Josephte Valiquet

L'an mille sept cents soixante et onze le trente septembre apres avoir publié
trois Banes de mariage aux prones du grande messes paroissialles du _____
de part entre Jean françois denoyer veuf de déffunte geneviéve perron et marie
louise ouellet fille de louis ouelett et de marianne Qhimulaire de cette paroisse
entre Jean Baptiste Labelle fils de François Labelle et de déffunte et de
déffunte marie magdelaine vandendaigh et marie joseph valiquet fille de
déffunt augustin valiquet et de françoise chartrant aussy de cette paroisse
et ne s'étant découvert aucun empechement ny opposition soussigné curé
de cette paroisse ay reçu leur mutuel consentements de mariage et leur
ay donné la bénédiction nuptialle en présence de Jacques Paquet françois
nolla charles paquet et charles gathernan joseph vandendaighe franç label
augustin valiquet joseph alair qui ont déclaré ne savoir signé deu borgai
suivant Lord mariée
T Denoyer Pretre

Jean Baptiste Labelle son of François Labelle and of marie magdelaine vandendaigue who were themselves married 24 Nov 1738 at St François de Sales (Ile de Jesus).

I will carry on with the transcriptions of the Labelle family next research day.

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Bénoit dit Vaillancourt Family

Marie Josephte Bénoit dit Vaillancourt married Joseph Louis Matté 5 Feb 1839 at St Jérome and Marie Josephte's parents were identified as Joseph Bénoit dit Vaillancourt and Josephte Charette who were themselves married 25 Nov 1811 at St Eustache (Deux Montagnes).

 M Joseph Vaillancourt et Josephte Chauret

Le vingt cinq novembre mil huit cent onze aprèes la publication
de trois bans de mariage faite au prone de nos messes savait ____
les trois __________dimanches consecutifs vingt unieme, la vingt
deux ____ et vingt trois ____ dimanches _____ entre joseph
vaillancour fils majeur de barthelemi vaillancourt et de marie
louise label ses pere et mere cultivateur en cette paroisse d'une part
et marie josephe chauret fille de charles chauret et de defunté
marguerite roi ses pere et mere de cette paroisse d'autre part; ne s'
étant de ____ aucun empechemenmt au dit mariage, nous soussigné
curé de cette paroisse leurs avons donné la bénédiction nuptiale au la
[to be continued but somewhat difficult to read]

Finding this marriage clarifies the parents of Joseph Vaillancourt and that he is descended from the second marriage of Bartelemi Vaillancourt, the present family is also descended from the first marriage of Bartelemi. Both of these marriages are in Tanguay with Barthélemi Vaillancour marrying first Marie Madeleine Bouchard 27 Jan 1766 at Kamouraska and second he married Marie Louise Labelle 3 Jul 1781 at Terrebonne. The parents of Barthélemi Vaillancourt are Joseph Vaillancourt and Thérèse Martin who were themselves married 7 Jan 1733 at Islet. This Joseph was the son of Robert Vaillancour and his first wife Geneviève Destroismaisons and they were married 28 Sep 1704 at St Thomas. Robert was the son of Robert Vaillancour and Françoise Gobeil who were married in 1668 at Chateau Richer. Robert was the emigrant ancestor and so Generation 1.

Robert Vaillancour married to Geneviève Destroismaisons is Generation 2.

Joseph Vaillancour married to Thérèse Martin is Generation 3.

Barthélemy Vaillancourt married to first Marie Madeleine Bouchard and second to Marie Louise Labelle is Generation 4.

Alexis Vaillancour married to Agathe Langlois dite Traversis 14 Jan 1793 at St Eustache (son of Barthélemy and Marie Madeleine Bouchard) is Generation 5.
Joseph Vaillancourt (son of Barthélemy Vaillancour and Marie Louise Labelle) married to Josephte Chauret is Generation 5.

Marie Josephte Bénoit dit Vaillancourt (daughter of Joseph Vaillancourt and Marie Louise Labelle) married to
Joseph Louis Matté is Generation 6.
Alexis Benoit dit Vaillancourt (son of Alexis Vaillancour and Agathe Langlois dite Traversis) married to Charlotte Beauchamp is Generation 6.

Josette Benoit dit Vaillancourt married to Louis Piché 3 Sep 1839 at Ste Scholastique is Generation 7.

The next research day will be spent collecting records.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Tremblay and Labelle Families

The Tremblay Family is very well published at Library and Archives Canada. When I was first searching for the marriage of Rosalie Tremblay and Homère Grégoire I was finding it quite difficult to put this family together. I found them on the census and eventually I found their marriage 6 Apr 1902 at Embrun ON. But I still have not found their baptisms. Finding their marriage did give me their parents' names which was very helpful. The Marriage Registration reads: Groom Homère Grégoire, Age 25, Residence Embrun, Place of Birth Embrun, Bachelor, Labourer, Parents Antoine Grégoire and Delima Ladéroute, Bride Rosalie Tremblay, Age17, Residence Embrun, Place of Birth Grenville, Sinster, Parents Delphis Tremblay and Lucie Labelle, Witnesses: Israel Grégoire and Delphis Tremblay both of Embrun.

Part of my confusion with the wife of Antoine Grégoire was this entry Delima Ladéroute for his wife.  Since she was also referred to as Rosa Séguin I wondered if I had two different wives but eventually I was able to prove they were one and the same person but more on that with the Séguin dit Ladéroute family.

The marriage of Adolphus Tremblay and Lucie Labelle was 4 Aug 1879 at Notre Dame de Sept Doleurs, Grenville Québec. Going from Delphis to Adolfus was simplified with the census.

M 15 Tremblay Adolfus et Labelle Lucie

Le quatre Aout mil huit cent soixante dix neuf au
la publication de trois bans de mariage faite au
prones de nos messes paroissiales entre Adol
fus Tremblay journ. fils mineur de Lucien Trem
blay journ. et de Marie Blondin de cette paroisse
d'une part; et Lucie Labelle, fille mineure de
France Labelle, Cultiv. et de feu Marcéline Lacro
ix de cette paroisse d'autre part; ne s'étant
découvert aucun empechement nous curé sous
signé de cette paroisse avons du consentes
ments des parents des dits mineurs, reçu leur
mutuel consentement de mariage et leur av
ons donné la bénédiction nuptiale en pré
sence de George Mailloux et de Clémence
Labelle, qui ont déclaré ne savoir signer
Oal. Bérube, P[re]tre

Reaching back this one generation however did not take me back far enough to look at any of these families in Tanguay. I continued to work backwards with the marriages. Lucien Tremblay married to Marie Bernard 12 Feb 1833 at Montebello appeared to be the closest to Marie Blondin but did involve a fair amount of searching. The father of Marie Bernard was François Bernard dit LaFrançois and her mother Charlotte Robin. The parents of Lucien Tremblay were Michel Tremblay and Ursule Gagnon.

M 2 Lucien Tremblay et Marie Bernard

Le douze Fevrier mil huit cent trente trois après la publication
ordinaires entre Lucien Tremblay domicilie en cette paroisse fils
majeur de Michel Tremblay et de Ursule Gagnon de cette paroisse d'un
part et Marie Bernard domiciliee dans le township de Plantagenet
dans la province de haut Canada fille mineure de feu François
Bernard dit Lafrançois et de defunte Charlotte Colin inconnu
vivant de la paroisse de la rivière du Chene d'autre part; nous
Pretre soussigné Cure de cette paroisse et autorisé a faire
les fonctions Curiales dans la diocèse de Kingston de l'agréement
des parens et nous avons reçu le mutuel consentement de
mariage des parties par paroles de présent et leur avons donné
la bénédiction nuptial suivant la forme proscrite par Notre
Mère la Sainte Eglise et en présence de Michel Tremblay
père de l'époux de Casimir Trembly son frère, de Louis Jean Chan___
son beaufrère de Louis Blondin dit _uce le cousine de l'épouse qui
_____ les époux et plusieurs autres parents et amis ont declaré ne savoir signer
M. Power Pretre

This only brought me back to 1833 on the Tremblay side. I decided to work my way back on the Tremblay side to see if I could find a marriage which Tanguay reported for this family. The mariage of Michel Tremblay and Ursule Gagnon 4 Jun 1793 at Baie St-Paul was a very faint scan but eventually I was able to read it sufficiently to determine that the parents of Michel Tremblay were Louis-Marie Tremblay and likely Marie Girard which is also the choice of many posting this couple to World Connect and published Tremblay family studies. Continuing to track the Tremblay family the marriage of Louis-Marie Tremblay and Marie-Anne Victoire Girard was celebrated 12 Jan 1757 at Baie St Paul. This marriage is in Tanguay and working backwards through Tanguay the parents of Louis-Marie Tremblay were Nicolas Tremblay and Louise Simard who married 18 Jan 1724 at Baie St Paul. The parents of Nicolas Tremblay were Pierre Tremblay and Marie Roussin (his second wife) who married 15 Nov 1685 at L'Ange-Gardien. Pierre's first marriage was to Madeleine Simard 3 Nov 1683 at Ste Anne. The parents of Pierre Tremblay were Pierre Tremblay and Ozanne Achon 2 Oct 1657 at Québec City. This first Pierre was the emigrant from France and will be Generation 1. Generation 2 is Pierre Tremblay his son. Generation 3 is Nicolas Tremblay. Generation 4 is Louis-Marie Tremblay. Generation 5 is Michel Tremblay. Generation 6 is Lucien Tremblay. Generation 7 is Joseph Delphis Tremblay. Generation 8 is Rosalie Tremblay who married Homère Grégoire.

The present generation is descended from two children of Pierre Tremblay and Ozanne Achon - Pierre as mentioned and Jeanne Tremblay who married Antoine Perron 15 Jan 1691 at L'Ange-Gardien.  More on the Perron family later. Jeanne is in Generation 2.

The present generation is descended from three children of Pierre Tremblay and Marie Roussin - Nicolas as mentioned. Second Marie-Madeleine Tremblay their daughter married Joseph Gagnon 10 Apr 1709 at Baie St Paul. Marie-Madeleine is in Generation 3. Third Etienne Tremblay married to Marie Fortin 12 Nov 1715 at Baie St Paul. Etienne is in Generation 3. Their daughter Cecile Tremblay married Joseph Simard 16 Jan 1742 at Les Eboulements. Cecile is in Generation 4. I prepared the folders for the Tremblay family and the next research day for the Tremblay family will be spent collecting any missing registrations for them.

Returning now to the marriage of Joseph Delphis Tremblay and Lucie Labelle and looking at the parents of Lucie Labelle I found a marriage for François Labelle and Marcélline Lacroix 19 Feb 1855 at Notre Dame de Sept Doleurs, Grenville, Québec. Collecting this marriage I found the parents of François Labelle to be Antoine Labelle and Clémence Potvin who married 3 Jun 1834 at St Martin (Laval). From their marriage registration the parents of Antoine Labelle were Jean Baptiste Labelle and Louise Legault who in turn married 11 Jan 1808 at Ste Rose de Lima (Laval). This marriage is not listed in Tanguay and finding their marriage the parents of Jean Baptiste Labelle were Jean Baptiste Labelle and Marie Josephte Valiquette who married 30 Sep 1771 at St Vincent de Paul. Nor is this marriage in Tanguay and searching through the parents of Jean Baptiste Labelle were Jean François Labelle and Marie Madeleine Vandendaigue who married 24 Nov 1738 at St François de Sales. This marriage is listed in Tanguay and Madeleine was the first wife of Jean François Labelle. The parents of Jean François were Jean François Labelle and Denise Major who married 9 Sep 1711 and Pointe aux Trembles. The parents of Jean François Labelle were Guillaume Labelle and Anne Charbonneau who married 23 Nov 1671 at Notre Dame in Montréal. Guillaume Labelle is the emigrant as far as I can tell thus far so he is Generation 1. Checking to see if this is correct in the marriage registration but I can only find the Guillaume Label to Marie Garnier marriage in the Index (lists only the name of Groom and Bride) 23 Sep 1761. I note that the mother of Anne Charbonneau according to others is Marie Marguerite Garnier - perhaps the indexer made an error. This discrepancy must be worked out somehow. Checking the registers for Notre Dame in Montréal does not answer that question as they do not include marriages for 1671.

What we do know for sure is that Guillaume Labelle is likely the emigrant and so he is Generation 1. Jean François is Generation 2 and he married twice with two lines of descent (one from each marriage) but also the present generation is descended from four children of Guillaume Labelle and Anne Charbonneau. Secondly, Magdeleine Labelle married Louis Filiatreau 9 Jan 1700 at Repentigny and is in Generation 2. Thirdly, Catherine Labelle married Pierre Nadon 26 Apr 1711 (date of contract) at Ile de Jesus and is in Generation 2. Fourthly, Angélique Labelle married Joseph Ethier 28 Nov 1713 at St François de Sales and is in Generation 2.

Jean François married first Denise Major 9 Sep 1711 at Point aux Trembles and is in Generation 2. He married second Catherine Berloin dite Nantel 24 Apr 1718 at St François de Sales (Laval) and this marriage is also in Generation 2. Their daughter Marie Marguerite Labelle married Ignace Paquet and is in Generation 3. Jean François Labelle and Denise Major's son Jean François Labelle married Marie Madeleine Vandendaigue and he is in Generation 3 as well.

Generation 4 is Jean Baptiste Labelle married to Marie Josephte Valiquette.

Generation 5 is Jean Baptiste Labelle married to Louise Legault.

Generation 6 is Antoine Labelle married to Clémence Potvin.

Generation 7 is François Labelle married to Marcélline Lacroix.

Generation 8 is Lucie Labelle and she married Joseph Delphis Tremblay.

The next session on Tremblay and Labelle I will continue to pull out the scans for the baptisms, marriages and burials.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Blake Family One Name Study and Bédard

With my membership in the Guild of One Name Studies comes the perk of Marriage Challenges. These are very handy especially with the price of a marriage registration certificate being now nine pounds sterling. The marriages help to establish the family lines in the 1800s and are an absolute must in any family study. I am slowly working away on the 30,000 Blake marriages in England matching up couples where possible but individual marriage challenges do this for me automatically as the data is pulled from the original parish registers and civil registers. I searched out my marriages for two today and I had already prepared my excel file for both of them so it was an easy transfer. I hadn't matched up all the marriages using the census so I proceeded to do that and it is a lengthy task to do 35 marriages working through FreeBMD and the census.

I am also working on the The Blake Newsletter and it was written by Barrie Blake this time. I am just adding or revising a couple of items - we do each others and that works very well as it is really difficult to proofread your own work.

It is certainly nice to be settling back into regular research. I need to now plan my research time for the French Canadian lines of our son in law. I have allotted one hour per day (it can easily run to two hours because of the placement) to work on each of his 32 3x great grandparents. This may seem like a lot but indeed I could just as easily of gone back to the 6x great grandparents and worked on all of them as well. It is a consideration on my part as I have assigned 28 to their own individual day and then I have placed two on the weekends where it works otherwise I have three in one day on a weekday because the calendar doesn't have an exact number of days per month. My own lines I have rotating on an eight week basis - five to a week but I do not have nearly as many of my 4x great grandparents covered in my research!

I will be working on Bédard, Whélan, Matte, Gagnon, Mourier, Bertrand, Nepveu, Audet dit Lapointe, Grégoire, Séguin dit Ladéroute, Tremblay, Labelle, Lauzon, Brunet, Lanoie, Rhéaume, Dumoulin, Renaud, Larente dit Vinet, Cadieux, Clément, Charlebois, Pomainville, Pilon, Prévost, Desjardins, Deschatelets, Quesnel, St-Jean, Lavigne, Chénier and Racine. I am considering doing a second month which would include Patry, Fournier dit Larose, Bénoit dit Vaillacourt, Doutre, Monestier, Piché, Richer, Hémard dit Poitvin, Groux, Bernard dit Blondin, Lacroix, Thibaut, Constantineau, Boileau, Payette dit St-Amour, Sarrazin, Demers, Blais, Racicot, Lamarque dit Matthieu, Chantal, Desloges dit Poirier, Monette dit Boiseux, Creujeur (Kruger), St-Denis, Legault, D'Amour, Campeau, and Douras (Douvas). This would then take me back to the 4x great grandparents and mostly  in the early 1800s/late 1700s. I have already taken his lines back to early New France and to the parents in France but I have not yet collected all the registrations. I would also like to now seek out the notary records and other records that might be at Library and Archives Canada which would give a fuller picture of these families.

I shall follow approximately the same process each day. First I will check to make sure I have all the registrations from Ancestry or the LDS website as an image in the family folder. Then within each folder I shall arrange them by generation from the emigrant. If I eventually find the registrations for these families in France then I shall simply alter the arabic to a roman numeral with the roman numerals marking the generations back from the emigrant and the parents being the I generation. I shall then check Tanguay to see if what I have also blends in with what he has (I started to use Tanguay about a year after I started). In the cases where I am still in the late 1700s, Tanguay is great to help you look at the lines going back to the emigrant. I shall also have a look at Ancestry family trees and World Connect. I will also search the Library and Archives Canada website to note items that I wish to check on my next visit.

Process:

  1. Label generations within the family folder
  2. Pull missing registrations from Ancestry and LDS website
  3. Check Tanguay
  4. Check Ancestry family trees
  5. Check World Connect family trees
  6. Search LAC for incidences of family name
Bédard is the family name that I wish to work on today but my time is somewhat limited as I am also getting ready for Easter. I am curious what brought Charles Alexandre  and Marie Emelie Whélan from Quebec City to Ottawa  following the birth of their first child (baptized 1 Jun 1864 at St Jean Baptiste, Quebec, Quebec. It was an interesting time for a carpenter to come to this area. I want to search at the archives to see if I am able to discover where he worked. Ten children were born to this family - seven boys and three girls. I suspect that many of the Bédard families in this area are descended from Charles Alexandre. Charles can trace his lineage all the way back to Jacques who was the son of the emigrant Isaac and Marie Girard and they had married 20 Mar 1644 at La Rochelle, France.The first process of sorting may well take me all of my time for this first session. It is one of the reasons why I am not going to set up the second month of names yet. Once I have organized the first 32 folders (I have 387 family folders already and I am only going to look at 32 of these to start) then I can start to move back and organize folders as I go working then on the entire family but my starting point will then be 64 families and their ancestors. We will see how it works out. I suspect this too will be a lifetime vocation which I shall hope to pass on to one of our son-in-law's family members in the future.




Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Bénoit dit Vaillancourt and Vaillancour families

I discovered that I had two rather interesting coincidental same names. Josette Bénoit dite Vaillancourt married Louis Piché 3 Sep 1839 at Ste Scholastique and Marie Josephte Bénoit dite Vaillancourt married Joseph Louis Matte 5 Feb 1839 at St Jerome. They are both born around 1820.

Parents for Marie Josephte were Joseph Bénoit dit Vaillancourt and Josephte Chauret (Chaurette) who themselves were married 25 Nov 1811 at St Eustache with parents Barthélemy Vaillancour and Marie Louise Labelle/Charles Chauret and Marguerite Roy.

Parents for Josette were Alexis Bénoit dit Vaillancourt and Charlotte Beauchamp who themselves were married 26 Jun 1815 at St Eustache with parents Alexis Vaillancour/Agathe Langlois dite Traversis and Joseph Beauchamp/Marie Euphrosine Villeneuve.

Alexis Vaillancour is the son of Barthélemy Vaillancour and his first wife Marie Madeleine Bouchard.

Working through the marriages of the parents/grandparents etc of Josette Bénoit dite Vaillancourt solved the mystery of the other Marie Josephte Bénoit dite Vaillancourt married to Joseph Louis Matte which had become my new brick wall once the wall collapsed for the parents of Joseph Louis Matte.

Tanguay refers to these families (Bénoit and Vaillancour) as two separate lines. It would appear that the priest added Bénoit to the Vaillancour line in the 1800s with the resultant surname Bénoit dit Vaillancourt. This tree also has the Bénoit line including Bénoit dit Livernois.

Must return now to my own family lines for a bit. I still have a number of items to solve and will try to prove four members a day across the 3x great grandparents for this tree. The generated book for this family is now up to 603 pages as I have inserted some of the documents. Eventually I will insert all the census that I am now using for proof and other interesting documents found online. Probably I will have to produce four files to keep the size of the electronic file under 2000 pages for each or perhaps I will have to go to the great grandparents producing eight files and then one linking file.

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Back to Genealogy

Today I want to work on the French Canadian ancestry of our son-in-law. I have already been working on the parents of his paternal grandmother seeking out their baptisms and I have been successful. I am hoping that if there is an error she will spot it as she looks over any papers she might have for her family. I want to complete as much of the chart as possible and at the moment I only go back to her 2x great grandparents and the chart has room back to her 5x great grandparents. But I shall work back by generation collecting baptism/birth, marriage and burial/death records from Drouin on Ancestry. I also want to go to Library and Archives Canada to check out the directories for the families (and any other information that might be helpful). I will look at all the published histories for any of these families. So far I am looking at Grégoire, Lauzon, Tremblay, Lanoie, Rheaume, Brunet, Labelle, Séguin, Potvin, Giroux, Blondin, Lacroix, Thibaut, Constantineau, Boileau, St Amour and that is just back to the 2x great grandparents.

A mystery for me is their path and it lead to questions in my mind. The families are in the western area of Québec opposite Ottawa ON and then a movement up to Sturgeon Falls and then back again to Ottawa for one line and the other line comes immediately to the Embrun area. Am I right with the Sturgeon Falls families? I continue to look for proof but it is not impossible for one young man to travel from Papineauville to Sturgeon Falls I do not think but I would like more proof than just the baptisms and marriages. The burials are past the date of record in Ancestry so I will need to try and find that information another way.

Today I shall move back another generation looking for information that I didn't find earlier. As I move back though I have already found baptisms/marriages and burials for a number of the ancestors. It will be a little quicker and then I can start working on the 3x, 4x and 5x great grandparents and see how much information I can find. Unfortunately a lot of these families have not been researched which makes it even more important to try and find information and especially pictures if they are obtainable.

I will also spend a little more time on my Siderfin family today and continue to send information to my new correspondent.