Sheila asked me to forward this to the group. Note the spelling of CHAUDOIN in French according to the letter that Sheila received. Audrey ----- Original Message ----- From: Sheila Chaudoin To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:01 AM Subject: FW: Francis Chaudouin Dear Audrey, Would you forward the attached to the Chaudoin group. I don't seem to have the group address here at work. My job at the library is to help other people do genealogy research and I was given a letter that had been mailed to our city hall from a fellow in France doing research on his wife's family who happened to have come from France to Muscatine, Iowa. Anyway in doing research for him I came across the fact that he and I are distantly related through my mothers side! Small world isn't it. During these emails he and I've been passing back and forth across the Atlantic he commented on my surname and asked if I had done any research in France. I told him no, that no one here in the USA have been able to break the boundaries of French research. So he has offered to send a letter on to the Mormon Research Center in Paris. Attached is a copy of the letter. It is of course in French but I thought I'd share it with the group. This gentleman happens to work in the French government as an under secretary! I hope this brings forth fruit..... Sincerely, Sheila Chaudoin Assistant Director Musser Public Library 304 Iowa Avenue Muscatine, IA 52761 563-263-3065 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: rolfspierdonati [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 4:34 AM To: Sheila CHAUDOUIN Subject: Francis Chaudouin Very dear Sheila, Happy New Year for you and all the people you like and love ! You'll find in the joined document the letter I wrote to Jean Pierre Massela about the searches we try to do about Francis Chaudouin This are for you. Hoping to meet you one day in Muscatine, take care of you. Rolf [email protected] ____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________ TRANSLATION OF MY LETTER Monsieur, Your adress as been given to me by the Church of Jesus Christ "of the the Last Day" in rue de Romainville, Les Lilas. I'm actually connected, in a 'genealogical way', with Madam Sheila Mary CHAUDOUIN master assistant in the Musser Public Library, 304 Iowa Avenue......... Madam Chaudouin gave me a considerable help on my genealogical searches concerning the paternal branch of my wife born Lorentz, to such an extend, that we found finaly that we were (in a very far way) relationships Madam Chaudouin is actually searching the french origins of her ancestor, but neither of us know how to proceed. She gave me also all her american genealogy and a particular note concerning her ancestor Francis CHAUDOUIN, joined to my letter. (of course Sheila I made a french copy !). Perhaps it will possible for you, after you'll have read this note, to explain me to what sources Madam Chaudouin (in the Us) and me (in Paris) could go to find some precise and sures informations on the origins of Francis Chaudouin. With all my thanks....... ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________