Hello again, I don't know if any of you have seen this or not, but the Office de Tourisme on Ile d'Orleans has done a site that is really quite nice. Here's the address: http://www.iledorleans.qc.ca/ It's better than anything I could show you with the pictures I took. But on their geneology page, they have a list of all the original families from the island and some have links, so far there is no link for the Fontaine page, so I was thinking of doing something that would provide a link to all the existing pages (I know there are at least two!) and add to it as I find time, maybe others are interested in doing something similar. >She was baptized on Sept 27, 1665 in St-Nicolas of LaRochelle in >Aunis, France. She arrived in New-France (Canada) while she was >very young with her mother yes, I find myself very interested in the reasons why people left France to take on such an adventure and hard life. I wonder why a mother would make the journey with a four year old (or thereabouts) daughter. I wonder if her husband (Marie's father) died, or if they separated and she was sent to Canada. I know that France shipped many women to Canada, orphins and prostitutes, women seen as 'problems'. They were to find husbands and be taken care of. >This marriage produced >twelve children and I have this list. Also I have the 9 generations >(Etienne FONTAINE and Marie CONILLE being the first >generation. Thanks for all the information. I also have this list, going right down to my generation. I think it's amazing that we can go back so far in our records. Cheers, Lise