This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: bourassa Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HGB.2ACI/362.2.1.1 Message Board Post: if you will, click on the links provided in my post where they are describing the reason they tie rene to chief topinabee. if i remember right.. it is somehow that the indian chief was baptized at mackinac and was given a french name. this is not my idea but what i am reading out there. who are rene's parents??? they claim that rene was given the name of the priest here on the island at the time and there was a boursassa priest at the time in question. i have not had much time to look any further and am working on other families right now. but if you like, check on the links, perhaps you can enlighten.