I'm looking for any information on the Jolibois family of Canada and Louisiana. I descend from Philippe Jolibois, b. ca. 1770 (ballpark), m. January 14, 1793 to Marie Louise Charpentier in St. James Parish, Louisiana. On his marriage certificate, he lists his parents as "Philippe Courtois and Marie Rosa of Montreal." I took this to mean that he was Courtois dit Jolibois; and with a little digging I found that there _was_ a Rosa family in Montreal, descended from Barthelemi Rosa of Genoa, Italy. Interesting circumstantial connection is that Philippe named his son Barthelemi Jolibois. I have never been able to place any Philippe Courtois and Marie Rosa among the known Courtois and Rosa families in Montreal, however. And the confusion got even worse when I started looking at the baptismal certificates for Philippe Jolibois' children. Two of them list the grandparents. Both certificates correctly list the maternal grandparents of the child (i.e. Marie Louise Charpentier's parents) as Pierre Charpentier and Jeanne Moutard. However, they both list the paternal grandparents -- i.e. Philippe Jolibois' parents -- as Francois Jolibois and Ursule LeGrand of Montreal! Why would Philippe (or anyone else, for that matter) give himself one set of parents on his marriage certificate, and a completely different set of parents on his child's baptismal record three years later? The names aren't even similar, as if it were a transcription error on the part of the priest who recorded the documents. Francois Jolibois/Philippe Courtois; Ursule LeGrand/Marie Rosa. It's not even close. The only agreement is that they were from Montreal! I've been puzzling over this for some time, and the more I look at it, the weirder it seems. Does anyone have any thoughts as to how this could happen? (By the way -- I haven't been able to find a Francois Jolibois and Ursule LeGrand in the Montreal records, either.) Help?!?!?!? cheers, Gordon Bonnet Trumansburg NY