Hi all, I am having difficult with this family: Jean Baptiste Thibodeau married abt. 1766 to Marguerite Dugas. I have seen his parents online in various places as Olivier and Isabelle Madeleine Melanson. From my PRDH subscription, I find his parents to be Antoine Thibodeau and Marguerite Landry. Is PRDH ever wrong? Is anyone else researching this family? Thank you. Lorraine fkanary@comcast.net

> I am having difficult with this family: > Jean Baptiste Thibodeau married abt. 1766 to Marguerite Dugas. > I have seen his parents online in various places as Olivier and Isabelle Madeleine Melanson. From my PRDH subscription, I find his parents to be Antoine Thibodeau and Marguerite Landry. Is PRDH ever wrong? Is anyone else researching this family? > Lorraine > fkanary@comcast.net Hi, I would like to write that "PRDH is never wrong"..But unfortunately, I can't! But we're working hard to be as close to it as possible...Acadian genealogy is very difficult, because of the high degree of homonimy, the loss of registers, the dispersion, etc. etc. I will look up this case and report. Bertrand Desjardins PRDH

I am having difficult with this family: Jean Baptiste Thibodeau married abt. 1766 to Marguerite Dugas. I have seen his parents online in various places as Olivier and Isabelle Madeleine Melanson. From my PRDH subscription, I find his parents to be Antoine Thibodeau and Marguerite Landry. Is PRDH ever wrong? Is anyone else researching this family? Hi, To my dismay, I can not find the basis on which we established that the parents of Jean Baptiste Thibodeau married to Marguerite Dugas were Antoine and Marguerite Landry. The PRDH has a long history spanning over thirty years and unfortunately over time some notes were "lost" or, more probably, classified somewhere without an easy retrieval. The only thing I can say is that Acadian cases where the marriage happened outside Quebec are out of our primary area of observation and, as such, were always handled specifically when credible information was found. I remember we had a PhD student who introduced many Acadian links following a visit she made to the Acadian Studies Center in Moncton and this one could very well be one of the cases. Adrien Bergeron in "Le Grand Arrangement des Acadiens au Québec" gives Olivier and Isabelle Melanson as parents but I have found him to be unreliable as he has done a lot of guessing in his decisions. This is all I can say for now. The Webmaster PRDH