On September 7, 2007 I sent the following e-mail to Mr. Stephen White: Mr. White: My name is Brenda Hébert. I grew up in Kankakee, Illinois where there was a large French-Canadian emigration in the mid-1800s. My great-grandmother was a Boudreau, and so was a great-great-great-grandmother. There was a discussion recently on the Quebec-Research list on Rootsweb about Jean-Baptiste Boudreau, son of Charles Boudreau & Madeleine Clouatre, who had married twice; first to Marie-Josèphe Landry and second to Marguerite Boissonneau. In your Histoire de la Famille Boudrot, Pg 130, you state: (76f) Jean-Baptiste n/b RG tr-Riv (Que)v 1764/18 oct 1767 (at) 3a (pr & mr Antoine Busiison & Marie-Rose LeBlanc); m1 RG l'Acadie 31 jan 1791 Marie-Josephe Landry (Simon-Joseph & Rose Cyr) (disp 4-4 cons); m2 RG l'Acadie 21 Feb 1803 Marguerite Boissonneau (Francois & Josette LeFebvre); Laboureur; s (selon B.L. Madden) cim Ste-Rose-de-Lima Kankakee IL In Betty Lou Madden's book Ancestors of Exzelia Elizabeth Boudreau, p. 206, she states: Jean Baptiste Boudreau, born 1766; first married 31 Jan 1791 at L'Acadie, Q.P., to Marie Landry, daughter of Joseph Landry and Rose Cyr. Marie died in 1802. Jean, a widower married 21 Feb 1803 to Marguerite Boissonneau, daughter of Francois Boissonneau and Josette Lefebvre of St. Constant. Jean was buried at St. Rose of Lima Church Cemetery, Kankakee, Illinois. Sources: Mariages de L'Acadie and St. Luc, pp. 19, 22, 88; Burial Records, St. Rose of Lima Church, Kankakee, Illinois, p. 70. I searched through the records I have on St. Rose of Lima Church. This past year the Kankakee Valley Genealogical Society (KVGS) published a transcription of the baptismal, marriage and burial records of St. Rose of Lima Church from 1855-1885. I did not find a burial record for a Jean, John, nor Jean-Baptiste Boudreau in that book. Norma Meier was the compiler of the book. I also checked the books I have on Maternity BVM Catholic Church in Bourbonnais, which was the first French Church in Kankakee County -- there were no Jean Baptiste Boudreaus who fit who I was looking for there either. Kankakee County civil death records were not recorded until 1877, so I didn't find him there, either. And there were no headstones in Kankakee County that belonged to him (of course, many of the oldest headstones have since either disappeared, broken or disintegrated -- some were wooden). So, with all my sources on Kankakee County genealogy I was not able to find any proof of Jean-Baptiste being buried in Kankakee County, Illinois. I have a subscription to Ancestry.com and have access to the Drouin online images. I had been going through the Ste-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie images looking for Boudreau records. The gentleman on the Quebec-Research list who originally wrote asking about Jean-Baptiste said he had in his database "circa 1852" for the date Jean-Baptiste died, so I went back to Ste-Marguerite's images on Ancestry.com, and resolved to start with 1852. In the index there was a Sepulture for Jean-Baptiste on feuille 10 for that year, I found it, and this is what it states: Le dix neuf Avril mil huit cent cinquante deux nous Prete Curé soussigné avons inhumé dans la cimetière du lieu le corps de Jean Baptiste BOUDREAU décédé depuis trois jours à l'age de quatre vingt, dix ans, époux de Marguerite BOISSONNEAULT; presens Édouard REMILLARD et Léon DESAUBEAU? qui n'ont su signé. R. ROBERT, pte. So, that states that Jean-Baptiste died 16 Avril 1852, and was buried at Ste-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie on 19 Avril 1852. I can save and e-mail the image to you, if you would like to see it. I hope this helps! And please let me know if I can be of further assistance in the future. Brenda Hébert Last Friday (October 12, 2007) I received the following reply from Mr. Stephen White: Dear Ms. Hébert: Thank you very much for the correction you sent me regarding the date and place of death of Jean-Baptiste Boudreau in 1852. I greatly appreciate your taking the time to send this to me, with your detailed explanation of how you found it. If at any time you discover other erros in any of my publications, please do not hesitate to let me know about them. Sincerely yours, Stephen A. White Genealogist Ginette Cormier-Léger Secrétaire administrative Centre d'études acadiennes Université de Moncton Moncton (N.-B.) E1A 3E9 Tél. : (506) 858-4719 Téléc. : (506) 858-4530 legergi@umoncton.ca http://www.umoncton.ca/etudeacadiennes/centre/cea.html I am now on MySpace! You can hear me sing at: www.myspace.com/brendahebert and my personal space is at www.myspace.com/brenhebert. Drop by and say hi! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com