This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cousineau- Smith Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jJQ.2ACIB/282 Message Board Post: Hello Cousineau families, I am doing this for my mother-inlaw the lady mentioned above.She was born in Paris,TX on January 6th 1945 to Ollie Mae Smith & ? Cousineau. From what we know about her birthfather ? Cousineau, he was older than her mother Ollie & at the time of her conception/birth already had a wife & other children- plus her mother Ollie was a minor at the time being 15 years old when she was born. I don't know if his wife or other kids ever found out about my mother inlaw but whoever this guy was, he helped her mother Ollie out until she married John Williams which was a very noble gesture of him. I would like to know about this guy, his name,DOB,DOD,kids names,DOBS,DODS, what they looked like, etc. My mother inlaw is now 60 years old & living in the Lake Worth area of Fort Worth, TX. Although she was adopted & cared for by her stepfather John Williams, we would all still like to know about her birthfather & his families. Whoever this guy is he has a grandson from Stella, my husband Johnny who will be 44 years old this year. A few years ago when my husband was dressed up wearing a black stetson hat & looked very good, his grandma Ollie told him that he looked just like his moms real dad. Evidently this fellow was average height, average weight & had dark hair/eyes- that is my husband. Please if there are any Cousineaus out there that were possibly in the Hugo,Oklahoma or Paris,Tx area during the 1940's who may have fathered a child from a lady named Ollie Mae Smith, contact me immediately. I would be overjoyed to find out any imfo & hear from anyone about this & will gladly pass along the imfo to my mom-inlaw. I love her dearly, she has been thru alot of tragedy within the past 16 years- she lost her only daughter Karen in 1989- she was killed by an abusive husband out in California (? Cousineau's granddaughter) & then she lost the only father that she had knew all her life shortly after that- & found out on his death bed that she wasn't biologicly his then on her birthday last year, she lost her 3rd husband of over 30 years to lung cancer. I feel that getting any amount of imfo about her other family will bring a smile to her face- for some people geneology is like christmas, with everything that is found it is like opening up a gift.The gift of knowledg! e about who you are & where you come from ancestrywise. Another thing, she says that her mother knows that one of this guys other children is named Frank Cousineau & he's supposed to play baseball professionally somewhere in Ohio. And that the her birthfather Cousineau has family/may have lived in the Syracuse area of NY