This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: VB2010 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.trahan/234.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Dawn, Mary Hortense Trahan (Melonson or Meloncon) was the daughter of Renice (Azema) and Charles Trahan. Renice (Azema) and Sevenne Boudreaux produced Mary Hortense's 1/2 brother -- Joseph Boudreaux, who was my great grandfather. Renice (or spelled Rernice) was a slave from Ghana. Her name as a slave was Azema. So Rernice was the mother of Hortense and Joseph, but they had different fathers. I don't know that much about Charles Trahan, but Sevenne Boudreaux was white, so her 1/2 brother Joseph was mulatto. I noticed a picture on your profile called Grandma Trahan. Is that a picture of your Grandmother Asame's mother (Hortense) or grandmother (Rernice)? My father recall's his great aunt Hortense when he was a boy. He still talks about a line that he stills remember in French that she would say all of the time. I'll have to ask him again what it is. Your grandmother Asame had a brother named Adam (1 of the 12 or 13 siblings). Adam's daughter's name was Eva (she passed within the p! ast 2 years). Eva was your mother, Ernestine's 1st cousin. That made Eva your 2nd cousin. Eva's children are your third cousins. I'm on the Boudreaux side of Mary Hortense's family. My grandfather and his 9 siblings (10 in all) were your grandmother Asame's 1st cousins. My father would be Asame's 2nd Cousin and I'm her 3rd Cousin. So that would make you my 5th cousin. One of your other 5th cousins on the Melonson side, and I, have been working on bridging the Hortense Trahan and Joseph Boudreaux family trees together since the early 90s. VB Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.