Hi Carol Anne, Your Chiniquy seems to have been in the same places at the same time as my Julien Giroux, who came to St. Anne in 1851/2 and fought in the Civil War as Joe Gero in Company F of the 76th Regiment of the Illinois Infantry, who was in Dakota County NE in the 1880 census, but was in Douglas Country (Armour) SD by 1900 and Pennington County SD (Rockerville, just outside Rapid City) from 1911 until his death in 1917. The similarities are quite striking and leads to the reasonable speculation that they knew each other. Btw, Deadwood was the major city in that part of South Dakota at the time. Rapid City didn't amount to much until quite later. Also, I found quite a bit of good information on my Civil War relatives from the War Department. They apparently didn't know how to fill out the paperwork to get Civil War pensions earlier (as their lawyer explained, they "were Frenchmen", apparently an acceptable explanation for ignorance), but filed under the Act of May 11, 1912 and gave quite a bit of historical information as to their travels and activities since 1865. Mike -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 11:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ILSTANNE] Migration Tales Bonjour Everyone, The migration stories have been terrific. I've enjoyed everyone of them. One of my CHINIQUY's must have joined them in their travels. Charles-Louis Chiniquy, the son of Louis-Philippe and Emilie L'Ecuyer and brother to my gr grandfather, Emile Chiniquy, ended up in South Dakota working for the Pioneer Newspaper in Deadwood after his tour of duty in the Civil War. I have just started to gather information on him. He is listed in the 1880 census under the surname of CHINEQUY so I know that he was first living in Nebraska where his two daughters were born. Both girls were married in Deadwood and his wife, Permelia, is buried in Mount Moriah Cemetery where Wild Bill Hickock is buried. I never would have guessed that my relatives would have been mixed up with the wild west. It's so much fun tracing them and finding out all this interesting stuff. Now, if I could just figure out who that other Charles Chiniquy is that is listed in the 1880 census with a wife and three children in Lincoln, Nebraska. Oh, what fun.........Carol Anne ==== 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

Deadwood, South Dakota was a major city back when the Homestake Gold Mine was the largest gold mine in the Western Hemisphere. Located between Deadwood and Lead (pronounced Leed), SD. The mine is now owned by Barrick Gold Corp. of Toronto and is being considered for a national underground science laboratory. Physicists use underground labs to shield sensitive experiments from cosmic radiation, and Homestake would be the world's deepest, most sophisticated physics lab. Homestake is 8,000 feet deep, with more than 300 miles of tunnels at various levels. Les ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Girou" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 10:54 AM Subject: RE: [ILSTANNE] Migration Tales > Hi Carol Anne, > > Your Chiniquy seems to have been in the same places at the same time as my > Julien Giroux, who came to St. Anne in 1851/2 and fought in the Civil War as > Joe Gero in Company F of the 76th Regiment of the Illinois Infantry, who was > in Dakota County NE in the 1880 census, but was in Douglas Country (Armour) > SD by 1900 and Pennington County SD (Rockerville, just outside Rapid City) > from 1911 until his death in 1917. The similarities are quite striking and > leads to the reasonable speculation that they knew each other. > > Btw, Deadwood was the major city in that part of South Dakota at the time. > Rapid City didn't amount to much until quite later. > > Also, I found quite a bit of good information on my Civil War relatives from > the War Department. They apparently didn't know how to fill out the > paperwork to get Civil War pensions earlier (as their lawyer explained, they > "were Frenchmen", apparently an acceptable explanation for ignorance), but > filed under the Act of May 11, 1912 and gave quite a bit of historical > information as to their travels and activities since 1865. > > Mike > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 11:51 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ILSTANNE] Migration Tales > > > Bonjour Everyone, > > The migration stories have been terrific. I've enjoyed everyone of them. > One of my CHINIQUY's must have joined them in their travels. Charles-Louis > Chiniquy, the son of Louis-Philippe and Emilie L'Ecuyer and brother to my gr > grandfather, Emile Chiniquy, ended up in South Dakota working for the > Pioneer > Newspaper in Deadwood after his tour of duty in the Civil War. I have just > started > to gather information on him. He is listed in the 1880 census under the > surname of CHINEQUY so I know that he was first living in Nebraska where his > two > daughters were born. Both girls were married in Deadwood and his wife, > Permelia, is buried in Mount Moriah Cemetery where Wild Bill Hickock is > buried. I > never would have guessed that my relatives would have been mixed up with the > wild west. It's so much fun tracing them and finding out all this > interesting > stuff. > > Now, if I could just figure out who that other Charles Chiniquy is that is > listed in the 1880 census with a wife and three children in Lincoln, > Nebraska. > > Oh, what fun.........Carol Anne > > > ==== 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 > > > ==== ILSTANNE Mailing List ==== > Please tell your fellow St. Anne area researchers about this list. To join, an interested person should send an eMail to [email protected] with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line or message box. > > ============================== > 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 >