This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/7aB.2ACEAE/701.1.1.1.3 Message Board Post: Just happened to read your posting on Jacques Énaud-dit-Canada and some of his descendents. He happens to be my direct ancestor, and I'm always interested in new findings. My gr-grandfather, Joachim Narcisse Hénault-dit-Fresnière married Justine Éthier-dit-Dragon (real name: Quay-dit-Éthier) (Jean-Baptiste and Marie Josephte Bombardier-dit-Lombarde) in St-Valentin 1834-10-14. Joachim Narcisse, born 1806-08-18 in Ste-Élisabeth, was the son of Antoine Hyppolite Hénault-dit-Fresnière (not Antoine Deschamps!) and Marie Judith Guibault. Your information on Jacques Énaud-dit-Canada as a soldier is correct. But Marie Leroux, from Rouen, Normandie, was one of the "fille du roy" (king's daughter) who came to Nouvelle-France to marry. No trace of the marriage record or marriage contract was found. But there is ample proof of Marie Leroux's status, which leads us to believe that the two were married in Nouvelle-France, possibly at the Fort St-Louys, in Chambly or in the Sorel region, where his regiment was stationed, and sometimes after her confirmation at Fort St-Louys on May 16,1668. As far as marriage dates, your information is mostly correct. But when it comes to the family names, I must correct you on those. I don't know where you found your information on the Hénault-dit-Canada-Fresnière using the "dit nom" Deschamps , but it needs a little clarification. The dit name Deschamps has never been used by my family and does not apply to the descendents of Jacques Énaud-dit-Canada (Énaud/Hénault/Eno families), but to the family and descendents of Toussaint Hunault and his wife Marie Lorgueuil. The dit names used by the descendents of Jacques Énaud were originally: Canada, Fresnière, Delorme and Portneuf. Again that information is also well documentated and easilly explained. It is important to use the "dit names" properly as they identify the families tied to these names. For instance, in the mid 1800's, the Hénault family members living in the Napierville and Chateauguay regions, mostly all from the Fresnière line, started marrying with members of the Hunault-dit-Deschamps line. It could be very confusing for the researchers if we started calling all these people Deschamps instead of using their proper family names and "dit nom" associated with each of them. Some are known to have dropped their family names: Hunault and Hénault, and went by their dit names only, such as Deschamps, Fresnière, Delorme and Portneuf. If not identified properly, someone can go looking for quite a while before finding out who's who. And what about the people starting their family genealogy? It can be very confusing at first, for anyone to start researching their family under the hundreds of different spellings found for any given name. Add to that the various "dit nom" used by each family, it's enough to discourage anyone, specially when they find out they have been researching the wrong lines for weeks on end...! This is not a criticism of your work, or anyone else's for that matter. But simply an issue that I feel needs to be addressed. In doing genealogy research, we need all the tools and all the help we can get, and looking up the wrong family tree is not one of them. Suzette Leclair Henault board admnin, and Coordinator of the Lanaudiere GenWeb