This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: jannaudet Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.massachusetts.unknown/714.215/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Kim: Was your GR. Grandfather an Architect. The Architect was Louis N. Audet And if so was he the one who re-desiged St. Anne de Beaupre Catherdral in or near Mt. Morency Quebec?. If so he looks just like what my father-in-law did. I have been trying to find this Louis Audet. To see if he is a direct line. We are also from Innocent and Vincente Roy-Audet. But being that Louis looks so much like my husband's father he has to be closer in his line. Dad, Was the son of Joseph (Isadore) and Albertine Leblanc-Audet Born in 1912 in Gaspie Penn Quebec. And Isadore was the son of Francios Xavier and Marie Olive Cyr-Audet. And they lived near the New Richmond, St. Charles de Caplan Quebec Area. I am assumimg you speak English. If so You can conract me at: [email protected] frontier.com. I live in Michigan. I have Registry Books for de Caplan 1867-1974 and New Richmond 1831-1970. I am not sure if there is any more of these Registries. I got them as a thank you gift from our My husband's grandmother son and daughter when they came her to celebrate my father-in-law's 80th birthday. The books have my father-in- law's and his 3 siblings information. Even though they came to the USA in1926. Also there are books called NOS ANCETRES in French and the English version, was titled Our French Canadian Ancestors. The author was R.P. Gerard LebelC. Ss. R it was written in French. Later it was transcribe by Thomas LaForest who was a retired US Navy Officer. These books had the first member of a family that settled in Canada or New France (Quebec) It is possible that this set of books can still be found in Canada and USA. The think when I purchased the French version they were like $7.50. And the English translated version were $20.00. Did you know that there is a Quaint little town in Quebec near Lac Magente called Audet? It is a very clean town. That is very litterly old school. We were there at noon and there wasn't one person out when we first arrived. When we arrived on our 1st visit we all got out of the cars and were starting to take photos of those with us when someone from the first house came out to see what we were doing. And when we explain ed our visit they took the pictures of us. I had already had photos of the town from 1993. I wanted to take my father-in-law there but I was over ruled.. So, I called the tourist board there and explain my plight and asked if I sent disposable cameras would someone go and take the pictures for me. And send back the undeveloped photos. And they did. I was so very thankful for the tourist board member and her family for doing this for me. My Father-in-law really thought it was a really nice thing for this family to do this for us complete strangers! . Though not to the name AUDET.. So when we were able to visit with my Mother-in-law in 1987, my husband and myself as well as the cousins who gave me the books we knew exactly what to look for. The town is named mor Miseal (MIchael) Audet the first postmaster of the town. I was also able to get the town's history from A Misieur Gagon who ran the news paper there. We later ran into a teacher taking a walk down the hill and Mom went and talked to her. She spoke French. And it was learned at that time we knew more about the town's history then it's own residents. I had to send proof of who I was and Mr. Gagon was extremely forth coming with the history of the town and very helpful to me. I am the only family member of my husbands' line that was doing research at the time. But: Kimee, I was really lucky where my Audet and Lablanc research is concern. For when I inviteded this one cousin Reine Leblanc to my father-in-law's Birthday party I asked her if she had any family history she could share with me when she came. And she asked me how would you like 300 years of Leblanc Family History? I was totally shocked. It turned out that she was a teacher and she was chosen to take care of the family history that was compiled by many relatives before her. It was all hand written. And she passed it on down to me where it is now on computer They called and ask me if she could bring her Brother and sister-in-law on the trip to visit. And because they were elderly I said ofcourse. Well they arrived two days before the party for dad and Reine gave me her family information. And then her sister-in-law said to me how how would you like 300 years of Audet family history. And I said your mon was a a Tompson and she came back with her grandmother was an Audet Dit Lapointe. Such a small world. And her information was written by several family members also and put in the care of One person. And that too is on computer. We belong to the Audet dit Lapointe Assocation. It is really noce. You can go an line to the ADNAL Assoc. site. It has been a while since I have been on there. I am a bit slower these days now due to that I now have a few major health issues. The worst being a very rare Kidney Cancer (Papillary Renal Cell TypeII Cancer. I lost my right kidney in June to it. There is no cure. They can only cut until they can't cut anymore. But, I am not sick. Which is the only good thing about this cancer. I will try to help you if I can. Sincerely J.Ann Audet Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.