You know, I upgraded from PAF 4 to PAF 5.2 or something, and the source information is differently organized. I liked it better the old way, but anyhow.... I'll see if I can figure it out, and I'll let you know. Jeanine If you tell me where you found this in Stephen White's work, I'll see if I can add to it. Thanks! Lucie Lucie LeBlanc Consentino Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home www.acadian-home.org Am-Can Gen Soc www.acgs.org CMA 2004 - www.cma2004.com Grand-Pré - http://www.grand-pre.com/ www.umoncton.ca/etudeacadiennes/centre/cea.html -----Original Message----- From: Jeanine Grant Lister [mailto:nenebean@quixnet.net] Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 11:35 AM To: ACADIAN-CAJUN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [ACADIAN-CAJUN] Theotiste DOUCET, m. Marcelin GUIMOND 1806 Hello, all: My third great-grandmother was Theotiste DOUCET (also called Gertrude, and the last name has many variant spellings), who married Marcelin GUIMOND on 6 May 1805 at St-Louis de Kent, New Brunswick, Canada. Someone told me that she was actually of Native birth and adopted by her parents of record (Joseph DOUCET dit VILLEROY and Ursule ROY). I found her marriage record in St-Louis church records, but have not found her birth or baptism information. Joseph and Ursule had six other children; why would they have adopted this one? Were they all adopted, or were Joseph and Ursule Native? The other children were born abt. 1773, 1783, 1785, 11 May 1788, 1792, and abt. 1797. (Obviously there are gaps in my records, part of which came off Stephen White's genealogy page and part from St-Louis records.) If Theotiste was 20 at her marriage, she would have been born about 1785. I wish I could remember who told me about the Native aspect, but I suspect it may have been on this list. Theotiste's granddaughter, Brigitte GUIMOND (dau. of Louis dit Louison GUIMOND and Euphrosine DOIRON), who married Placide ROBICHAUD in St-Louis, was 102 when she died, and still had very dark hair at age 100 (I have a photo of her). I met her grandson Germain this summer, and he showed me a chart on which Stephen White had highlighted all the Native lines in yellow. Interesting--and Theotiste was in the yellow part. Germain told me when he was a child (he's about 82, I think and still has dark hair), the Natives would come in the summer and set up camp on their land, and provide the family with baskets. This is a great list, and I know somebody can help me, so thanks in advance! Jeanine Grant Lister Lexington, Kentucky USA ==== ACADIAN-CAJUN Mailing List ==== http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=topics.ethnic.acadian -cajun This is a link to the Acadian-Cajun Message Board at RootsWeb. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237