HI Rosie, When I saw your information of translation from French to English and the name COUTURE I thought interesting, Michigan. My great Grandparents were Nazaire MERCIER who married Georgianna COUTURE at St Barnards parish, Dorchester, Quebec. I visited the church in 2001 and there were many COUTURES in the cemetery abutting the Church but no Merciers so I assume it was the area COUTUREs lived in. The reason I am writing is that I have been trying to find a birth certificate for their son, George MERCIER born November 1, 1880 in Ausable, Michigan. There is evidence that they were living there in Census records but can't find a birth record or baptism record. Since they were within two years having a baby in Rochester, NH I can assume they didn't stay in Michigan for long. Also the fact that they has two sons Aselme and Joseph before George in Quebec and the US tells me that they moved where relatives lived. If you need more of their siblings names and who they married I have that information from the Drouin book, what I can't find is Georgianna's burial place after she died from a child being born July 20, 1894 named Marie, in Peterborough, July 24, 1894. My grandfather was their son Emile who was born July 7, 1893 was then given to relatives while Nazaire went West leaving his children to be raised by friends and relatives. He married a woman named Mary GOTHIER in Eau Clair, Wisconsin and then they came back to live on a farm but it was taken to build the Quabbin reservoir. They went back to Canada to live somewhere in the area of Magog and Lake Magantic because their children went to that area to visit. Nazaire must have lived for some years into the 1930's as my mother remembers him coming to visit her father, and family when she was little and refusing to take the children's beds to sleep in and instead slept on the floor by the wood stove at their home in Hardwick, VT. Since Mom was born in 1927 and remembers him I have to assume it was sometime in the 1930's. I forgot to mention I have found many Couture's in Rochester, NH and that area and many Merciers in area of Peterborough, NH so my assumption that they went to Michigan where their relatives lived is a hunch of their behavior previous to and after. I would appreciate if you could check out a birth certificate for George MERCIER. Harriet in NH > Here is a free site to translate French to English and visa versa. You can enter text or insert a web URL. It has several other languages as well. Click and bookmark! > http://www.appliedlanguage.com/free_translation.shtml > > Rosie in Michigan > (researching COUTURE, CLOUTIER) > > > > > "We can do simple little things...and make someone's day." > > it's fun to be a RAOGK volunteer > www.raogk.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== FRENCH-SURNAMES Mailing List ==== > Please never answer off topic messages, just ignore it or contact if > necessary the List administrator at: FRENCH-SURNAMES-admin@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find > marriage announcements and more. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx >