>>>> Please send us some introductory paragraphs about yourself and your connections to or interest in St. Anne. Be sure to include the surnames you are interested in (first use of each surname in a message should be in caps). <<<<< My name is Marsha Marie (Deschand) Ott. I was born in Kankakee, Il. and lived there to age of 13. My father, Virgil H. DESCHAND, was French/Canadian and his ggrandparents were one of the first familles to settle in Kankakee. My grandfather Ezra DESCHAND/DESCHAMPS married Odille JARVIS/GERVAIS. Her parents, Solomon Gervais and Emerance DESLAURIERS, moved from Henryville, Quebec about 1857. My mother, Bertha Nelson, was the daughter of Chris Niels Nelson and Eva Pearl Henniger. My mother gave birth, in 1939, to the first (only) set of quads born in Kankakee County. <A HREF="http://members.tripod.com/~MarshaD">Marsha's Page</A> Names I am researching: DESCHAND/DESCHAMPS, JERVAIS/GERVAIS, BOUDREAU, DESLAURIERS, ISABELLE, BOUCHER, CHARBONNEAU, ROY, CHARCOTT/CHAREST, BOURASSA I have most of my familles back to the 16th century in France, (thanks to the wonderful people on the Internet) but not everything is documented. Love Ya, Me Marsha