Merci beaucoup, Stanley. I didn't look far enough back in N.O. Archio. records to find her. Her husband wasn't born til 1824 and I wrongly assumed she was younger than he was. I know better than to assume. Thanks for all the other info. The rest should be easy. I'm tracing my uncle-by-marriage's family. Most of his stuff will be along the gulf coast, as well as Pensacola. What a hunt I have ahead of me! Merci! Rita http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WestBankGenealogySociety Click "join this group" to set up your ID and password, then sign in each time you visit. --------------------------------- Tonight's top picks. What will you watch tonight? Preview the hottest shows on Yahoo! TV.

Hi All; This is from another list to which I belong. Sounds very interesting. Nova This Sunday, CBS's 60 Minutes will feature a report on Genetic Genealogy. According to the CBS website, "ROOTS - The new field of genetic genealogy uses DNA to trace ancestry back hundreds of years, sometimes surprising customers with unlikely relatives. Lesley Stahl reports. Shari Finkelstein is the producer." The program airs Sunday October 7 at 7:00 p.m. on the West Coast. The show will be delayed on the east coast due to football, and will air from 7:30-9:00 ET. Make sure to check your local listing to see when it will be running in your area. Sounds like a really interesting segment! Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus" __._,_.___ Messages in this topic (1) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic Messages | Files | Photos To Unsubscribe email: Candyman-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com Yahoogroups URL: http://www.yahoogroups.com/community/Candyman Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch format to Traditional Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe Recent Activity 2 New Members Visit Your Group Yahoo! Groups HD The official Samsung Y! Group for HDTVs and devices. Real Food Group on Yahoo! Groups What does real food mean to you? Moderator Central An online resource for moderators of Yahoo! Groups. . __,_._,___ --------------------------------- Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell.

Hi Stanley; At least I had the right person when I looked in Ancestry! Thanks, Nova Stanley LeBlanc <cajun@thecajuns.com> wrote: Rita, Don and Nova, Henriette's grandparents were Ambroise Garidel [Garrido] and Marguerite Bourque [Bourg]. Marguerite's family was exiled to France. Her first husband was Firmin Aucoin and she had a son named Firmin. Firmin, Sr. died before 1785 as Marguerite is shown as the widow Aucoin with her son. Her mother was Marguerite-Josephe Hebert, widow Bourg. Firmin Aucoin, Sr. was the half-brother of Nathalie Aucoin who was my 4th great-grandmother. Firmin, Jr. was born about 1779. He married Pelagie Arceneaux in Feb. 1806 in St. James Parish. Marguerite Bourg married Ambroise Garidel [Garrido] in 1788 in Ascension. The record states that the parents were Acadians, but Ambroise wasn't Acadian - he most likely was Spanish. Their son, Luis Ambroise, was born in 1793 in Assumption Parish. He is shown as from Lafourche on the marriage record to Juana Dutillet [who was from Pensacola]in 1812 in New Orleans because Assumption was part of Lafourche des Chitimachas which became Lafourche Interior. The family is on the 1791 and 1795 census of Lafourche. Henriette was born 10/29/1818 in New Orleans. Stanley LeBlanc http://www.thecajuns.com -----Original Message----- From: acadian-cajun-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:acadian-cajun-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Rita Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 11:04 PM To: acadian-cajun@rootsweb.com Subject: [Acadian-Cajun] Need another lookup? Anyone have the Lafourche-Terrebonne Fr. Hebert books handy (South LA)? Need a lookup for Henriette Garidel born somewhere around the 1820s. TIA Rita http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WestBankGenealogySociety Click "join this group" to set up your ID and password, then sign in each time you visit. --------------------------------- Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ACADIAN-CAJUN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ACADIAN-CAJUN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --------------------------------- Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more.

Hi: Thanks for clearing that up. I have a couple of Jeanne Dutillets that I think are the same couple: 1:In Sacramental Records of Diocese of New Orleans Vol 5 P136, 221 Pierre Robin LACOSTE (Jean Robin/Jeanne Dutillet) M:28 Apr 1794 Hortense Pelagie Dreux (Francois/Marie Constance Hazeur) 2:Is the above Pierre Robin LACOSTE the son of Jean ROBIN/Marie Jeanne Dutillet who were the parents of: Pierre Robin B:? D:23 Jan 1773 Barthelemy Robin B:29 Jul 1772 Pierre Casimir Robin B:19 Feb 1774 Francois Leandre Robin B:4 Mar 1776 Don Boudreaux Stanley LeBlanc wrote: > Rita, Don and Nova, > > Henriette's grandparents were Ambroise Garidel [Garrido] and Marguerite > Bourque [Bourg]. Marguerite's family was exiled to France. Her first husband > was Firmin Aucoin and she had a son named Firmin. Firmin, Sr. died before > 1785 as Marguerite is shown as the widow Aucoin with her son. Her mother was > Marguerite-Josephe Hebert, widow Bourg. > > Firmin Aucoin, Sr. was the half-brother of Nathalie Aucoin who was my 4th > great-grandmother. Firmin, Jr. was born about 1779. He married Pelagie > Arceneaux in Feb. 1806 in St. James Parish. > > Marguerite Bourg married Ambroise Garidel [Garrido] in 1788 in Ascension. > The record states that the parents were Acadians, but Ambroise wasn't > Acadian - he most likely was Spanish. Their son, Luis Ambroise, was born in > 1793 in Assumption Parish. He is shown as from Lafourche on the marriage > record to Juana Dutillet [who was from Pensacola]in 1812 in New Orleans > because Assumption was part of Lafourche des Chitimachas which became > Lafourche Interior. The family is on the 1791 and 1795 census of Lafourche. > > Henriette was born 10/29/1818 in New Orleans. > > Stanley LeBlanc > http://www.thecajuns.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: acadian-cajun-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:acadian-cajun-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Rita > Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 11:04 PM > To: acadian-cajun@rootsweb.com > Subject: [Acadian-Cajun] Need another lookup? > > Anyone have the Lafourche-Terrebonne Fr. Hebert books handy (South LA)? > > Need a lookup for Henriette Garidel born somewhere around the 1820s. > > TIA > > > > > Rita > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WestBankGenealogySociety > Click "join this group" to set up your ID and password, then sign in each > time you visit. > > --------------------------------- > Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel > and lay it on us. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ACADIAN-CAJUN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ACADIAN-CAJUN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >

Gordon - A little late getting back to you on this - but, per my records: Cecile Marie Gautreaux (Tresimon and Marie Sardes) ****** First Generation 1. Cecile Marie GAUTREAUX: born on 24 Jan 1864 in vic Canal at Attakapas, Napoleonville, Assumption Parish, LA. Second Generation 2. Tresimon GAUTREAUX: born on 4 Mar 1831 in vic Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA; married 19 Apr 1858 IMCC - [Immaculate Conception Church, Canal, vic Napoleonville, LA] [ref DoBR- 223; IMC-Canal-v. 1, p. 382.]) . 3. Marie SARDES [ISARDES]. Third Generation 4. David GAUTHREAUX: married on 10 Nov 1828 in SJCC St Joseph Co-Cathedral, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA. 5. Celeste BOUDREAUX: born on 9 Mar 1808 in Ascension Parish, LA; died on 5 Mar 1831 in vic Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA. 6. Joseph SARDES [ISARDES]: married. 7. Marie PARES. -------------- Original message from Gordon Bonnet <jaggy227@fltg.net>: -------------- > I'm looking for the parents of Cecile Gautreaux, b. ca. 1864 probably > in Lafourche Parish LA, m. 26 Jan 1888 in Labadieville, LA to Desire > Alexis Emile Montet. > > Thanks! > > Gordon > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ACADIAN-CAJUN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Rita, Don and Nova, Henriette's grandparents were Ambroise Garidel [Garrido] and Marguerite Bourque [Bourg]. Marguerite's family was exiled to France. Her first husband was Firmin Aucoin and she had a son named Firmin. Firmin, Sr. died before 1785 as Marguerite is shown as the widow Aucoin with her son. Her mother was Marguerite-Josephe Hebert, widow Bourg. Firmin Aucoin, Sr. was the half-brother of Nathalie Aucoin who was my 4th great-grandmother. Firmin, Jr. was born about 1779. He married Pelagie Arceneaux in Feb. 1806 in St. James Parish. Marguerite Bourg married Ambroise Garidel [Garrido] in 1788 in Ascension. The record states that the parents were Acadians, but Ambroise wasn't Acadian - he most likely was Spanish. Their son, Luis Ambroise, was born in 1793 in Assumption Parish. He is shown as from Lafourche on the marriage record to Juana Dutillet [who was from Pensacola]in 1812 in New Orleans because Assumption was part of Lafourche des Chitimachas which became Lafourche Interior. The family is on the 1791 and 1795 census of Lafourche. Henriette was born 10/29/1818 in New Orleans. Stanley LeBlanc http://www.thecajuns.com -----Original Message----- From: acadian-cajun-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:acadian-cajun-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Rita Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 11:04 PM To: acadian-cajun@rootsweb.com Subject: [Acadian-Cajun] Need another lookup? Anyone have the Lafourche-Terrebonne Fr. Hebert books handy (South LA)? Need a lookup for Henriette Garidel born somewhere around the 1820s. TIA Rita http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WestBankGenealogySociety Click "join this group" to set up your ID and password, then sign in each time you visit. --------------------------------- Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ACADIAN-CAJUN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Rita: The name GARIDEL is not in South Louisiana Records, Southwest Louisiana Records, or Diocese of Baton Rouge Archives Records, for the 1820 period. Don Boudreaux Rita wrote: > Anyone have the Lafourche-Terrebonne Fr. Hebert books handy (South LA)? > > Need a lookup for Henriette Garidel born somewhere around the 1820s. > > TIA > > > > > Rita > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WestBankGenealogySociety > Click "join this group" to set up your ID and password, then sign in each time you visit. > > --------------------------------- > Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ACADIAN-CAJUN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >

Good morning; In Ancestry I found a Henriette GARIDEL born about the right time in New Orleans parish. If you don't have access to Ancestry I can send the record if you'd like. Nova Don Boudreaux <donboudreaux@earthlink.net> wrote: Hi Rita: The name GARIDEL is not in South Louisiana Records, Southwest Louisiana Records, or Diocese of Baton Rouge Archives Records, for the 1820 period. Don Boudreaux Rita wrote: > Anyone have the Lafourche-Terrebonne Fr. Hebert books handy (South LA)? > > Need a lookup for Henriette Garidel born somewhere around the 1820s. > > TIA > > > > > Rita > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WestBankGenealogySociety > Click "join this group" to set up your ID and password, then sign in each time you visit. > > --------------------------------- > Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ACADIAN-CAJUN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ACADIAN-CAJUN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --------------------------------- Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games.

Anyone have the Lafourche-Terrebonne Fr. Hebert books handy (South LA)? Need a lookup for Henriette Garidel born somewhere around the 1820s. TIA Rita http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WestBankGenealogySociety Click "join this group" to set up your ID and password, then sign in each time you visit. --------------------------------- Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us.

Hi List Members, A cousin of mine found on Father Hebert's CD the following: Child, white, found abandoned, given to Mrs. Desire Hebert, child was about 20 days old. Statement made 10, November 1891. Lydia Church Volume 1- page 116. She believes that this name: Mrs. Desire Hebert is the husbands name. I guess Desire can be a man's name. There are some females named Desiree with two e's, I guess? Has anyone ever come across this child in any of their Hebert lines? Which Hebert couple was this child given to? There are several Desire Hebert's. Thanks for any help you can give me. Linda Louviere People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors. ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com

Hello everyone.. I am researching the line of one of my great-grandfather's sisters, Cecile Broussard, b. 1877 in Lydia LA and married 1900 to Romain Fridam Roger. I have 4 sons of this marriage: Wilfred, Sidney, Gabriel, and Adam. Are there any descendants of this line? Thank you. Donald Broussard Member, Order of the Crown of Charlemagne "Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today." -- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (d. 8 B. C.) --------------------------------- Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out.

See exchange of emails below - Any help in tracing the line would be appreciated. Stanley LeBlanc http://www.thecajuns.com *** You are an angel. I had been discussing all of this with him while he was alive, but whenever I do searches, I can't connect the pieces. He thought he still had cousins in Moncton, New Brunswick area. I don't have a lot of pieces except: He was born Arthur Edgar LeBlanc 9/29/23 in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. He had a brother Gerard, and a sister Doris, both now deceased as well. His mother was Zelica Gautreau and I believe his father was John Camille LeBlanc. Dad said he thought his grandfather was full Indian, which I'm very interested in. I think his mother (Zelica) was from France. His father (John Camille) apparently served in the Canadian military at some point. Dad (Arthur) moved to Boston, Massacusetts as a baby and later married Helen Jean Siok LeBlanc. Dad did refer to his family being exiled to Louisiana and "walking back" to Canada (he says). I really appreciate any help - I just don't know where to start - sometimes I find things and then come to a dead end. Sincerely, Linda *** Linda, I posted the obit because all Acadian LeBlancs are related somehow! As you probably know, not all of the Acadians were exiled and some returned to Canada. If you send me your Dad's line as far back as you can go, I'll see if my Canadian contacts can trace the line for you. Stanley LeBlanc http://www.thecajuns.com *** Hi Stanley, I'm just grabbing at unknowns here - I was doing a google search on my family members and found a link to rootsweb where you posted my dad's obituary http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/ACADIAN-CAJUN/2006-12/1166370541 . I just wondered if there is any way if you are related to him - he was French-Canadian and I am trying to trace our ancestry, particularly up into Canada. I'm new at doing all of this - any tips you have would be great. Thanks, Linda (LeBlanc) Feehery mailto:Plcpn@aol.com

Hi Cousins! II am in Moncton . In talking with Stephen White, if anyone on the list has been mtDNA tested back to the following first ancestors, we would love to hear from you. If you have not but are interested in so doing, this is a list of women for who we have no mtDNA results but would be important for us to obtain or their descendants tested: Marie Chaussegros married to Martin Benoit Marie Gaudet married 1. Etienne Hebert 2. Dominique Gareau Martine Gauthier married to Denis Gaudet Madeleine Helie married to Philippe Mius d'Entremont Jeanne Henry married to Jean Gaudet Antoinette Landry married to Antoine Bourg/Bourque Catherine -- married to 1. Jean Labarre 2. Etienne Rivet Thank you. Lucie -- Lucie LeBlanc Consentino AFC RootsWeb Administrator Acadian-French-Canadian Mailing List ACADIAN-FRENCH-CANADIAN-L-request@rootsweb.com Acadian & French-Canadian Ancestral Home www.acadian-home.org/frames.html

Morning John, All of the MICHEL's you are showing in the surname section are in my direct maternal line! I would be interested in how they connect for you. Welcome to the group! Andrea Scott [Hebert/Michel] -----Original Message----- From: acadian-cajun-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:acadian-cajun-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of John Hogg Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 11:21 AM To: acadian-cajun@rootsweb.com Subject: [Acadian-Cajun] My research Good morning all I just joined this group to see if we couldn't share some information. I am working on the acadian - cajun and other for my grandson's other grandfather. I am at www.johnhogg.us On the left of the page you can look at the charts section for Roland James Blanchard or just look at the names if you wish I still have a ways to go and at present am working on those who came down the Mississippi from the Illinois area in the 1760's Pertuis/Pertuit, Quebedeaux, Provost/Prevost. I have a lot more to add but can always use help and happy to share. John ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ACADIAN-CAJUN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi to All, Is anyone out there researching Albert,Denis,Huard,LeBrasseur and their colleratal lines in the Paspebiac,Gaspe Quebec region ,Caraquet,N.B.,Winslow and Waterville,Maine? I am willing to share my information. Have a nice day! Rose Eufaula,OK.,USA --------------------------------- Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out.

Hi Neal, Even tho I do not have any connections here - it is very nice of you to post this information to the list! Thanks Andy Scott -----Original Message----- From: acadian-cajun-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:acadian-cajun-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of neal hebert Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 5:08 PM To: acadian-cajun@rootsweb.com Subject: [Acadian-Cajun] Quebedeau in Illinois Ran across a couple of tidbits while surfing I thought I'd throw out for anyone interested. A "reconstructed" 1776 census of St Louis posted on the St Louis Genealogical Society site shows the following: Duchemin, Gilles, 63, ex-soldier, origin unknown Duchemin, Marie Jeanne, wife, Kaskaskia These would appear to be the daughter and son-in-law of Joseph Quebedeau dit L'Espagnol and Marianne Beau. A bit further down: Quevedo, Catherine, Kaskaskia Quevedo, Jacques, farmer, Kaskaskia Quevedo, Marie Jacobo, Kaskaskia I don't know what, if any, connection Jacques has to Joseph dit L'Espagnol Quebedeau. I've sent off the the Illinois State Genealogical Society for transcripts of the 1752 census as published a few years back in their quarterly. Hopefully this census will reveal some helpful information. Neal Hebert Modesto, CA ____________________________________________________________________________ ________ Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more. http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ACADIAN-CAJUN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Andy, You're welcome; happy someone read it lol. Neal..... --- Andy Scott <greydale@hughes.net> wrote: > Hi Neal, > > Even tho I do not have any connections here - it is > very nice of you to post > this information to the list! > > Thanks > Andy Scott > > -----Original Message----- > From: acadian-cajun-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:acadian-cajun-bounces@rootsweb.com] On > Behalf Of neal hebert > Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 5:08 PM > To: acadian-cajun@rootsweb.com > Subject: [Acadian-Cajun] Quebedeau in Illinois > > Ran across a couple of tidbits while surfing I > thought > I'd throw out for anyone interested. > > A "reconstructed" 1776 census of St Louis posted on > the St Louis Genealogical Society site shows the > following: > > Duchemin, Gilles, 63, ex-soldier, origin unknown > Duchemin, Marie Jeanne, wife, Kaskaskia > > These would appear to be the daughter and son-in-law > of Joseph Quebedeau dit L'Espagnol and Marianne > Beau. > > A bit further down: > > Quevedo, Catherine, Kaskaskia > Quevedo, Jacques, farmer, Kaskaskia > Quevedo, Marie Jacobo, Kaskaskia > > I don't know what, if any, connection Jacques has to > Joseph dit L'Espagnol Quebedeau. I've sent off the > the > Illinois State Genealogical Society for transcripts > of > the 1752 census as published a few years back in > their > quarterly. Hopefully this census will reveal some > helpful information. > > Neal Hebert > Modesto, CA > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > ________ > Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet > in your pocket: mail, > news, photos & more. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to > ACADIAN-CAJUN-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Check out the hottest 2008 models today at Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html

Ran across a couple of tidbits while surfing I thought I'd throw out for anyone interested. A "reconstructed" 1776 census of St Louis posted on the St Louis Genealogical Society site shows the following: Duchemin, Gilles, 63, ex-soldier, origin unknown Duchemin, Marie Jeanne, wife, Kaskaskia These would appear to be the daughter and son-in-law of Joseph Quebedeau dit L'Espagnol and Marianne Beau. A bit further down: Quevedo, Catherine, Kaskaskia Quevedo, Jacques, farmer, Kaskaskia Quevedo, Marie Jacobo, Kaskaskia I don't know what, if any, connection Jacques has to Joseph dit L'Espagnol Quebedeau. I've sent off the the Illinois State Genealogical Society for transcripts of the 1752 census as published a few years back in their quarterly. Hopefully this census will reveal some helpful information. Neal Hebert Modesto, CA ____________________________________________________________________________________ Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more. http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC

Good morning all I just joined this group to see if we couldn't share some information. I am working on the acadian - cajun and other for my grandson's other grandfather. I am at www.johnhogg.us On the left of the page you can look at the charts section for Roland James Blanchard or just look at the names if you wish I still have a ways to go and at present am working on those who came down the Mississippi from the Illinois area in the 1760's Pertuis/Pertuit, Quebedeaux, Provost/Prevost. I have a lot more to add but can always use help and happy to share. John

Wow Gordon - very interesting - thanks for sharing with us!! TTFN, Nova Gordon Bonnet <jaggy227@fltg.net> wrote: Fascinating topic. So far, my direct lines have included: 1) A guy who caught his wife in bed with another man, and proceeded to hit the guy with a stick, killing him. (This guy is an Acadian ancestor and I betcha I'm not the only one on the list who knows who this is...) 2) A guy who was imprisoned in New Jersey for "mischief and riot" and was apparently such a ne'er-do-well that his only son, born out of wedlock, went all the way to Louisiana to get away from him. And... the kicker -- his father was the constable of Ocean County, New Jersey! 3) A fellow who, according to legend, lost his soul to the devil in a card game, and as a result still haunts a castle in Scotland. 4) Louis, the first of the Exnicios family in Louisiana, who I'm willing to bet was on the run from the law. He signed his name "Ex Nescio" on the only document we have with his signature -- and "ex nescio" is Latin for "from nowhere." I.e. -- "My name is Louis, but You Don't Know Me." Plus, my great-great uncle was John A. Murrell, the so-called Land Pirate -- a prominent highwayman in the first part of the 19th century. Ah, my illustrious forebears. I hope I'm living up to their legacy. :-) cheers, Gordon Bonnet Trumansburg NY On Sep 30, 2007, at 10:30 AM, Smileson@aol.com wrote: > > Since the list is very quiet, here is something to think > about...this came > from the UK > > Who's rattling in your family closet? > Last Updated: 12:01am BST 14/09/2007 > > As a study warns of the shocks in store when we research our family > trees, > Telegraph genealogist Nick Barratt shares some secrets > > 'The past is a Pandora’s box; once opened, there’s no going back’ > > There is a restlessness in today's society. Community ties are > looser and > families more widely spread - and yet we all yearn for a sense of > belonging. For > many of us, that longing is fulfilled by exploring our family history. > Genealogy has become increasingly popular as access to the > internet has made > mapping our family trees easier. One in three Britons have > conducted research > into their ancestors online - but sometimes all that digging can > unearth some > dark secrets. > A study by the genealogy website ancestry.co.uk reported this week > that one > Briton in six has uncovered illegitimate children, convicted > criminals or > secret adoptions while delving into their family history. They have > found that the > past is a Pandora's box; once it's been opened, there's no going > back - so it > is best to be prepared. > The actor John Hurt wasn't prepared for the truth about his > family's origins. > He has always taken great pride in his Irish aristocratic ancestry, > believing > that his great-grandmother was the illegitimate child of the > Marquis of > Sligo. Research by the BBC programme Who Do You Think You Are?, > screened last > night, found that this was a myth and that his family hailed from > Croydon. > > advertisement > > > As a historian, I am used to helping other people find out about their > ancestors, but in the course of my research, I stumbled upon a > secret that had been > kept in my own family for 75 years. My paternal great uncle had > disappeared > mysteriously in 1932 and none of my living relatives knew what had > happened to > him. > One day, I was looking through the National Archives with one of my > relations and we spotted my great uncle's name. We did some digging > and discovered > something that none of us could possibly have imagined: he had been > a Soviet spy. > He worked for the Foreign Office and was passing information to the > Russians. The British authorities eventually caught on and he must > have had a sense > that they were closing in on him because, sadly, he committed suicide. > My uncle, who is now 80, vividly remembers having to look after his > younger > brother - my father - who was very ill at the time, while his > parents rushed > off to an unknown destination. He was never told why or where they > were going, > but the dates match the discovery of my great uncle's death and, > presumably, > his funeral. > The website study indicates that illegitimacy is the most common > discovery. > Eighteen per cent of us will find babies born out of wedlock in our > family > trees. In many ways, this shouldn't come as too much of a surprise. > In the mid- to late-Victorian period there was a huge stigma > attached to > illegitimate children so people went to great lengths to keep such > births secret. > There was a lot of unofficial adoption within families, where the > baby's > grandparents would raise a child as their own. > One of the signs to look out for is an unusual age gap in census > records; > for example, three teenage children registered and then a newborn > baby. Birth > certificates are also full of clues; a child is likely to have been > illegitimate > if there is no father recorded or if the baby was baptised with the > mother's > surname. > Many people find links to the Royal Family or to aristocrats through > illegitimacy. Sometimes hints about a liaison have been passed down > through the > generations but are based only on circumstantial evidence. > If you have suspicions, my tip is to look closely at names - the > middle name > of a child may reflect the surname or Christian name of its real > father. > Birth dates can also give clues, while unusually valuable family > heirlooms may > shed light on who the father was. > There may even be a portrait in a grand house somewhere that looks > remarkably like you. Usually, the story behind these findings is > that a servant girl > was impregnated by her royal or aristocratic master. > We saw an example of this on Who Do You Think You Are? featuring > the author > Sebastian Faulks. He discovered that his great-grandfather had been > taken in > by a family because he was born illegitimately to one of the household > servants. > Family secrets safeguarded through generations are often linked to > a sense of > shame; all sorts of mysteries have their roots in social > acceptance, or > poverty. Finding out about the hardships our ancestors faced can be > an incredibly > emotional experience. > Sometimes, people find that relatives were born or died in the > workhouse. > Death, burial or admission records will show you how long they > spent there. Such > discoveries can provide a fascinating insight into the often > difficult social > circumstances of the time - and there may be more sinister secrets > to unveil. > Examples of criminal activity in a family can come as a huge shock > to people > who have embarked on a bit of gentle research. Local newspaper > archives often > contain details of trials or court reports; death certificates may > show that > someone died in prison. > There may even be transportation papers if they were sent for penal > servitude in Australia. Lists exist of those detained in the hulks > before > transportation. There might also be gruesome details of the trip, a > surgeon's log and > records of their penal servitude. The upside might be the discovery > of an > Antipodean branch to your family tree. > Unearthing new relatives is usually a wonderful thing. But if it's > a secret > family you never knew about, it can be hard to come to terms with. > Bigamy makes > for a particularly shocking discovery - and two per cent of us will > find it > in our family histories. > Divorce laws didn't come in until 1858, and when they did, the > conditions > were strict and biased against women. It was also incredibly > expensive to > divorce, so people desperate to escape unhappy marriages often just > left and settled > quietly into a new life somewhere else. > Tell-tale signs of this could be an unexplained movement within > the family, > or if people suddenly disappear from the records and appear in a > later census > as a bachelor. The BBC research team found that the comedian Vic > Reeves's > ancestor, a man called Walter Lee, married, had three children, > then moved, > claimed to be a bachelor and started a second family with a new wife. > We all have an idea of who we are that is derived from our own > lives and from > what we know of our ancestors; uncovering new facts about our personal > heritage can challenge that sense of identity. > So when you begin your research do bear in mind that you might > happen upon > uncomfortable truths. Be prepared to deal with the consequences of > what you > learn, but don't let it put you off. Such secrets will make you > feel closer to > your ancestors than you might if the family tree was more > straightforward. > You think about how they must have felt and wonder what you would > do in > those circumstances. It will give you an incredible connection with > the past. > > > > ************************************** > See what's new at http://www.aol.com > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ACADIAN-CAJUN- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ACADIAN-CAJUN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --------------------------------- Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! FareChase.