In a message dated 6/24/03 5:50:21 PM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << When ever I see the names "BOUDREAU" "BEAUDRY" "MARION" "GELINO" "FRANCOEUR" I have to wonder - are they somehow related? Mary Boudreau who in an earlier e-mail stated her family ended up in Nebraska sparked one such question now in my mind... I wonder if maybe the Boudreau in her family was somehow related to my great grandmother - and maybe that is why she; Millodel and her first husband {HUBERT GELINO} went to Kansas in the first place - from Illinois. ...but then it could be that they followed Hubert's family to Kansas too - >> Hi Listers This has been a interesting topic and I am so happy that so many are sharing information about the migration. My gr.gr.gr. grandfather Alphonse Boudreau married Cecile (Cecelia) Allain/Allen in 1851, in Will County, Illinois. (Cecile's father and brothers were: Michael Allain and Antoine and Ambrose Allain.) They had four children in St. Anne: Addeline (1852), Alfred Alexandere (1854-1858), Charles Celestine (1856) and Angeline (1861). I don't know if they ever lived in Kansas, but according to what we found out they arrived in Dakota County, Nebraska in 1868. They were also listed on several 1880 censuses and their names were spelt in a variety of ways. As I said earlier the only ancestor that we know of that lived in Cloud County, Kansas was Antoine Allen (Allain) and Pauline Provencher/Provancha. We are still trying to find Alphonse Boudreau's parents and family. We found Alphonse's brother Celestine, age 33 on the 1860 Iroquois County, Illinois census. As we found Pierre Boudreau Senior's son and daughter had married into the Allain family, we believe that Alphonse Boudreau could be connected to them. We are always interested hearing any one with a Boudreau connection, maybe, they can help us learn the Boudreau family history that has been eluding us. Mary Boudreau