How COOL is this?

[KarenM]

Tres bien China!!


Karen

[chinakay]

Just found another triumph

Zacharie originally arrived in New France on July 7th, 1619, on board the St Etienne.

He was indentured to stay for 3 years and then return to France. He did. Then he came back to Canada with his family and settled permanently.

The famous Mayflower arrived at Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts November 21st, 1620. The Mayflower Society is a loose organization of people who can document ancestry back to one of the people who arrived on that ship. It's prestigious to be able to do so, and sort of entitles you to bragging rights.

My friend's ancestor, and possibly two ancestors, beat the Mayflower by 16 months

Cheers,
China

[jmcgill]

I am also a decendent of Zacharie Cloutier. I have three of his children (Zacharie Cloutier, Jean Cloutier and Louise Cloutier) in my family tree.

The Iroquois raid on Lachine is a major event in Quebec history. It marked the start of the second French and Iroquois war. I have some ancestors which died in the raid and others which survived. The survivors include the family of Olivier Quesnel. The house that he started to build in 1710 still stands on the lake shore here in Lachine.

John

[chinakay]

Fascinating, isn't it all?

I know that house, been by it a few times. I used to enjoy driving that lovely road.

Cheers,
China

[JDC]

Very interesting China.... some of our ancestors went thru quite a lot

JDC

[montie]

I know, it's fascinating isn't it? Myself I recently found out how small the gene pool is by realising (actually finding out doing research) that I am related to someone I happen to see almost every day. I knew her mother had the same surname as my mother's (both french canadian), so I did a bit of research and sure enough, it seems we are distant cousins from 9 generations back 

I also found out that one of my ancestors married twice - the first time they had 10 children, and the second time, 11. The aim was to populate the colony and they sure did their part 

S.

[chinakay]

I just found something similar. I googled a pair of my friend's ancestors that I didn't have dates for, and the first generation on the first page I looked at was Angelina Jolie. Someone has put her entire family tree on the web, going back 16 generations.

So I ran through it, and found 7 couples that are in the tree I'm doing. And they are all from different branches, as obviously everybody "upstream" from a married couple are also ancestors.

So my friend and Angelina share at least 7 ancestral couples. And I'm only working on a very small part of the tree at the moment.

There weren't all that many Europeans in New France. They intermarried out of necessity.

Incidentally, Angelina Jolie's father is Jon Voigt. I didn't know that

Cheers,
China

[genealogygirlais]

Very cool China!!
I've got a few in my tree that go back to the Fille du Roi..  It's neat to be able to get them back that far!! 

[chinakay]

There were other girls before the Filles du Roi...look up Filles ŕ Marier.

http://many-roads.com/2009/09/02/filles-a-marier-marriageable-girls/

Some of the Filles were from high society...Quite a few of them didn't like the look of who they were getting, and broke their contracts.

http://www.leveillee.net/ancestry/fillesduroi1.htm

Cheers,
China