Rex wrote: > Looking for info about Gilbert Sweet, born in Canada c. 1830, and > his descendants. Gilbert's birth surname was apparently 'Ladouceur' > per family lore. Gilbert 'Ladocea'(sic) immigrated to US (Bershire > Co., MA) by 1850 Census. Thereafter, surname translated from French > to 'Sweet'... I wonder whether the willingness to translate the name means that it had already been translated once before (i.e., that the family was originally English and changed the name after settling in the French-speaking part of Canada). It would be interesting to see what a DNA test would show for one of the male descendants of this line. John Chandler