thanks gary, the tanquay set worked well, alot of info to be had there for alot of people. also the listings for the dit surnames and the native marriages. so now i need some info on nicolas pelletier. was sharing info with my mom, all my geneolgy notes and trees were destroyed in flood this year(15 yrs of notes trying to remember..............right). okay straight from tanquay's book, pelletier,nicolas epoux de tegoussi,madeleine(veuve d'auguste savage)et de savagesse,marie,fille du grand chief jean-bte nanabesa my french is rusty so i think it says, nicolas married to madeleine daughter of savage marie wife of grand chief jean-bte. so if any one has info on nicolas and his children, the help would be great. familysearch.com has some info, but is choppy and hard to put together. thx, jim --- Gary Boivin <gboivin@telusplanet.net> wrote: > Under the French... > The City of Detroit was called Ste-Anne. > Detroit was the region that took in both shores of > the waters between Lake > Ste-Claire and Lake Erie. > Ste-Anne's was the 1st church so you will find > marriages of people from > present day Canada there. You will also find > marriages in the 2nd church > built: Assumption Church in Sandwich, Ontario which > was called "La Pointe de > Montreal du Detroit". > BTW... Windsor itself did not exist as a town in the > early 1700's. It was > simply farmland / bush land. The town for the region > was present-day > Detroit. > *** > If you live in the Detroit-Windsor area you should > be able to access > Denissen's "Genealogy of the French Families of the > Detroit River Region, > 1701-1911" through your local libraries Reference > Section. Just remember > that Denissen wasn't French and he anglicized most > names. The date and > location data in the books is fairly accurate but he > should have learned to > spell in French. > *** > Many marriages in Essex County of Southwestern > Ontario can be found at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~onessex/western.htm > *** > Bill Martin has a good research site. > http://my.tbaytel.net/bmartin/sitemap.htm > On his site you will find copies of Registries from > Assumption Church in > Sandwich (again the spelling of names) > Baptisms http://my.tbaytel.net/bmartin/detroit1.htm > Marriages http://my.tbaytel.net/bmartin/detroit2.htm > Burials http://my.tbaytel.net/bmartin/detroit3.htm > *** > The Government of Quebec has put the 7 volumes of > Tanguay on line. > In it you will find baptisms, marriages, burials for > the Detroit Region. > With some families this information will go to the > early 1800's. > Most stop in the mid 1760's though. > If you want to access and need help in understanding > French instructions go > to > http://www.rootsweb.com/~canqc/tanguay.htm > If you can read French, you can access it at > http://www.bnquebec.ca/numtextes/accueil.htm > > Tanguay's accuracy depends on your family line. Some > families he is 99+% > accurate while with a few others he's 85% accurate. > Most inaccuracies have been corrected in Lebeuf's > Compl�ment -- some > Tanguay CD's have Lebeuf included while other's > don't. > Overall I give Tanguay a rating of 95 > 98 % > accuracy. > For one thing it is a valuable tool. No other > single source has attempted > to list all the data contained in the Tanguay. > Cyprien Tanguay didn't have > the modern tools that we have (computers) and his > volumes are a feat in > research that at least gives us an indication as to > where to look to find > what > we need. > I would recommend you continue using Tanguay as a > tool and, whenever > possible, verify the data you've found. I look at it > in the sense that 95% > of something is much better than 100% of nothing. > *** > In the early 1700's people did a lot of moving > around. > Some marriages from Michilimackinac can be found at > http://www.leveillee.net/ancestry/fortmichilimackinac.htm > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "james mayberry" <jmay330@sbcglobal.net> > To: <NISHNAWBE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 7:20 AM > Subject: [NISHNAWBE] looking for info > > > > is there a site or place i could call that would > have > > info on the detroit and windsor areas. > specifically > > for the period of 1700-1800, and includes native > > americans. > > > > also does anyone have any french census for the > > detroit area before 1790. may be included with > windsor > > or ontario. > > > > i have read that there were 17 families in the > windsor > > area in the early 1700s. does anyone have a list > of > > their names. cant find that info anywhere. > > > > lastly,i know st. annes was the main church in > > detroit. was there any other that would have done > > native and french marriages in the mid 1700s. > > > > long list but any info appreciated. > > > > thx, > > jim > > > > > > ============================== > > 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 > > > > > > > > ============================== > 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 >