This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/mA1.2ACIB/449.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I have Menards back to early 1600s. There are/is a soldier Menard in the line. There are 2 places where things either skip or are at present lost. A friend is helping me. The Menards went back and forth from Quebec to NY seemly following the ship building trade and lumbering. some of the children were born in Q and at least one in NY. My gr, grandfather, Joseph b. 1844 d. 1922 in OH. Sometime the family moved to MI and at least 2 children were born there. The story is my g.grf was selected by the family to be a priest. He did not want to and so left home and went to OH. There is a strong bent to spirituallity in the family. Louise Bernier was his mother and Joseph M. was his father both b. in 1810. My gr.g. was Indian. I have seen Metis' after many M names in geneolgy lists. I am still getting organized. I'll send what I can but it willbe at least 2 wks. Emily