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/YRB.2ACE/1394.2 Message Board Post: There is a very interesting article in the Winter 2004/2004 issue of Heritage Quest magazine (Vol. 20, no. 4, issue 112 page 100) titled “A Search for Canadian Roots” by Marielle A. V. Bourgeois that you should read. In this article she describes a case study of a Blaises family from Keesville, NY. In this instance, and quite by coincidence to the author, the original French-Canadian version of the Blaise name was Bourgeois.