Pioneer LOUIS GAGNE Status(es) : Immigrant Birth : 1612-09-13 st-martin d'ige, ev. sees, perche (ar. mortagne, orne) First marriage : 1638 France with MARIE MICHEL www.genealogy.umontreal.ca   Their daughter Louise, married Claude Bouchard dit Petit Claude on May 25 1654.  I originally got this marriage about 15 yrs ago from "Les Grand Families" which is no longer online.......   I was going to confirm it with the Drouin, but now the loophole is closed too.....can't go by the backstairs to get to it......   Shar     could you confirm that Louise's parents are Louis Gasnier and Marie ichel  - my husband's 8th grts Cheers Cousin! Doreen ========== > Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:41:16 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [CAN-ONT-SIMCOE] Drouin Collection & Ancestry problems > > That you Georgina, I too have found the Drouin a mine of information. Where else can you find where a cousin married his cousin, had the priest okay it and then have the Bishop overturn it.....after a lot of begging on the couples side, who have children by the way, and the priest, the bishop gives in and the couple remarries.  Interesting items in there.... > > I also start with the marriages and work back, by using every spelling of the last name, first name, combining all forms of spellings and when it comes down to the end, if I know where they are from, I use first names and just look at all the records for that name in that area. Sometimes I have to do both husband and wife...... > > The Ladouceur LaMadeleine took, a couple of hours for each name.....Fun the excitement of the search.  Much like a mystery story. > > By the by, Louise Gagne m to Claude Bouchard was my gr + aunt. > > Sharlene > > > > > > Throgh the Drouin records I have gone back marriage by marriage to my > husband's 7th grt granparents Claude Bouchard and Louise Gagne (Gasnier) > > Georgina Dean > Stratford Ontario > > ***************** > Ten People All Genealogists Should Follow On Twitter: http://tr.im/hBAy > > Simcoe Co. GenWeb at http://www.waynecook.com/simcoe.shtml > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ***************** > Ten People All Genealogists Should Follow On Twitter: http://tr.im/hBAy > > Simcoe Co. GenWeb at http://www.waynecook.com/simcoe.shtml > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ New: Messenger sign-in on the MSN homepage http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9677403 ***************** Ten People All Genealogists Should Follow On Twitter: http://tr.im/hBAy Simcoe Co. GenWeb at http://www.waynecook.com/simcoe.shtml ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ***************** Ten People All Genealogists Should Follow On Twitter: http://tr.im/hBAy Simcoe Co. GenWeb at http://www.waynecook.com/simcoe.shtml ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Believe it or not, there are other sources and there was a genealogical research life before the Drouin appeared on Ancestry. The PRDH is an excellent research source for Quebec records http://www.genealogy.umontreal.ca/en/ and the BMS2000 http://www.bms2000.org/Default.aspx is another one. Both are great subscription sites and well worth the relatively cheap costs. If you are only interested in free sites then try the LDS Pilot Project under Quebec records or visit your local Family History Centre and do it the old fashioned way - microfilm in a film reader and turn a crank or push a button. Check your local library and see if you can find a copy of Rene Jette's Genealogies of the French Families(?) or Cyprien Tanguay's books. Tanguay was on-line but it is not a source I use anymore so you will have to check. FYI, the Drouin collection of transcribed BMD records is also available in a set of books - albeit a bit of hike for some of us to the Canadian Room of the North York Library. The so-called Blue and Red Drouin marriage books are available at branches of the Societe Franco//-Ontarienne d'Histoire et de Généalogie. Try contacting them on-line for a lookup. It will probably cost you something but then these organizations don't exist on air. The Library of Canada will also send you every known marriage with your surname, from the landing in Quebec City to the present, for a very, very modest fee. The Red or 'Petit' Drouin is available on CD from many on-line book stores. From originals to transcripts, there are a lot of options. Be sure to check out Lorine's Olive Tree Genealogy, she's probably got a few listed that I missed. And of course, you can visit the Penetanguishene Museum and find almost every one of these sources just waiting for you - Quebec repertoires on CD, microfiche, in print or in a computer database. Pam