Hello Everyone.
My name is Glenn Norman. I'm new to RootsChat and apologize in advance if I'm doing anything wrong by interjecting here - but I stumbled onto this site - and this two-year-old thread - while searching for information on my partner, Michelle Goodeve's, PATERNAL line.
Michelle and I live in Canada and have been working on her family tree for about 20 years.
We've had EXTRAORDINARY success with her mother's side of the family (the Metis [french-Canadian & First Nations {Indian} Chippewa] Duquette family). We got back to 1588 with the help of Quebec's, precise amazingly easy to follow records, then - more recently (and somewhat suspiciously) - got ABSURDLY far back after I began putting Michelle's maternal tree online {for her family} at geni.com. Others genealogists merged their own findings and (thanks to a "noble" Duquette ancestor we KNOW to be real), took her tree back to almost the beginnings of recorded history!
As I say ... SUSPICIOUS (or "hopeful genealogy" <g>), but we're in the process of checking each ancestors' authenticity - one at a time. It's a laborious process, but ... so far, so good!
However, that's not why I'm adding to this thread (which I sincerely hope reaches some of the previous posters).
Recently, I began trying to track down Michelle's PATERNAL line - the Goodeve family - which has been notoriously hard to find. So you can imagine my utter delight when I discovered the GOLD MINE of information those of you in this thread have uncovered.
For the record:
Michelle's father was Roland Dennis Goodeve, born in Devonport, England on October 28, 1912.
We know "Rolly's" father was a Leonard Tomson (or Thompson) Goodeve, born in the early to mid 1860's, and we'd also heard family rumours that he was born in India. We knew he was married to a Eunice Hele ... but, that was about it. And every time we've tried to get further, we've hit a "stonewall" ...
Until NOW!
I'm quite sure the family line being tracked down in this thread is the same one we're working on, and despite the "parallel family nightmare" you've worked so hard to sort out, this information has been of tremendous help to us.
Getting down to my reasons for posting:
* I wanted you to know we're also working on this line and may have some info/pictures you may not (especially when it pertains to Goodeves who moved to Canada in the 1920's, and those who still live here).
* We would LOVE to see copies of any documents/military records/etc you may have for any of Michelle's ancestors.
And finally...
* Are you aware that there is a 400+ page BOOK (self-published from the look of it) on "The Goodeve Family Genealogy"?
We discovered it at the University of Guelph library (in Ontario, Canada) while working on Michelle's maternal lineage ... but we couldn't make the link to her branch of the family. (There appeared to be a critical "missing generation.")
HOWEVER ... we copied the ENTIRE (public domain) book and gave it to her father as a birthday gift.
When he passed away (in 1999), we THINK the book came back to us and is SOMEWHERE in this overly-full house.
(Sidebar: Both Michelle & I are TV Screenwriters/Exec Story Editors [Michelle is also an Actress], so our old, rural-Ontario preacher's manse is JAMMED with scripts, research, etc., which we've gathered over the years.)
I've been searching for that copied book ever since I spotted this thread and will let you know when/if I find it ... but regardless, I just wanted to make sure you know such a detailed genealogy DOES exist.
'Nuff said for now-
Oh, except one last thing...
Are you aware that there is a TOWN called "Goodeve" in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan?
(It's not very big, but you can get a good look at it by searching for the town on Google Earth.)
On behalf of Michelle - my sincere thanks for helping us fill in an awful lot of blanks, AND give us tantalizing clues to continuing even further back. <g>
Yours most sincerely,
Glenn Norman
Ontario Canada
