Hope somebody can help. Joseph Thuot dit Duval was an ancestor of mine who was married 3 times. All 3 marriages were celebrated at the Parish of Ste-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie (L'Acadie) in Quebec. 1st marriage: Catherine Power on November 14, 1808 2nd marriage: Elisabeth Dupille on May 1, 1810 3rd marriage: Mathilde Dumas on January 29, 1839 Joseph was baptized under the name of Joseph Hyacinthe Thuot in St. Philippe-de-Laprairie on March 9, 1789. He was the son of Toussaint Thuot dit Duval and Marie Betourne who were married in the Parish of Longueuil on June 17, 1782. I received some marriage documents on Joseph from the Archives Nationales du Quebec but are all handwritten in French and just about impossible to read. I've had a few French people try to decifer them and were not able to get much out of them. Hope someone can suggest where I can get some information such as birth certificates and marriage licenses in English. Jim Duval

Doubtful you'll find the certificates wrapped up in a nice English package like you seem to want. Translation of the original documents is not usually a tough job because the format is fairly standard. Either scan and send the documents to me by e-mail at jlesperance@hawai.rr.com or if you need to send photocopies by postal mail use: G. Lesperance, 98-864 Laelua Place, Aiea, Hawaii 96701. I wonder, though, if you already have the key information from the documents, and photocopies of the originals, why you need an English translation. I got into French-Canadian genealogy at age 61 and soon learned that I couldn't do any basic research without some knowledge of French. I then took 4 semesters at a local community college. So if you are going to do much F-C genealogy you should think about learning some French. As I said, the format of the key documents such as baptism, marriage and burial are fairly standard thus a researcher doesn't have to be all that fluent. Further most of the key French words in these documents make sense even if you don't speak French, for instance, sepulchre or inhume=buried; marie=married. Jerry