I, too appreciate all this talk about migration, pioneers and Chiniquy. This information applies to all of us in one way or another. Thank you. Jean-Paul HUBERT <[email protected]> wrote: I take the liberty, in light of the many recent discussions about "Chiniquy", and also migration, to refer the readership to the text of a very famous letter from Rev. P. Chiniquy, published on 22 September 1851 in "Le Canadien", enticing French-Canadians to move to Illinois. A translation can be found at http://members.aol.com/djkboysrus/chiniquy.html Cheers to all. Jean-Paul At 23:10 26.06.03 -0400, [email protected] wrote: >In a message dated 6/26/2003 5:00:40 PM Pacific Daylight Time, >[email protected] writes: > ><< I recently gave a talk about St. Anne at my company's Genealogy Club and it > dawned on me that I don't know how to pronounce CHINIQUY, or what > nationality it is. > > Ken Bonvallet > > >> > >Hi, Ken! CHINIQUY is apparently the Quebec version of the Basque name >ETXENIKE. > >You can see from the French and Spanish attempts to pronounce that Basque >name (ETXENIKE into E'CHENNIQUE and CHENNEQUI and the like) that the ET >basically >fell off, as vowel sound syllables at the beginning of words often do - the >XE was pronounced like the English SH in "shin" - the INI stayed INI or INA - >and the KE became KEY or QUI. (There are ETXENIKEs here in California today >who prounounce their names as ET-ZE-NIH-KEY, with the E fading.) > >The CHINIQUY spelling may not exist in Europe at all - but the first one in >Quebec seemed to have begun with CHENNIQUE and segued into CHINIQUY pretty >quickly. Then the whole family used CHINIQUY thereafter, except for a >line that >called itself CHINIC for reasons not fully clear. > >I think Carol Anne said that her family used SHIN-A-KEY and I recall that my >family said SHIN-IH-KEY. The accent at my house was about even on all >syllables, with maybe some slight emphasis on the first. > >Carol Anne and I share a great, great, great grandfather, Charles Chenniquy >the notary - born 1781 and married to Marie-Reine Perreault in 1807. These >two were the parents of Louis Phillipe Chiniquy and Achille Chiniquy, Carol >Anne's and my respective great, great grandfathers, AND of Fr. Charles P.T. >Chiniquy - great great grand-uncle to us both. > >WHEW! Ain't genealogy fun???? > >I'm loving the migration stories! Deadwood, here we come. . . > >Ginny > > >==== ILSTANNE Mailing List ==== >Courtesy is the key to list relationships. Please send thanks ON the list >to those who have helped you. Our listers are so smart and generous - >it's nice to see them thanked publicly. > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 ==== ILSTANNE Mailing List ==== To scan a remarkable collection of lists and webpages related to genealogy, go to: http://www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/internet.html Once there, click on "mailing lists", then select the category you want, then the location or surname. Voila! ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month!