Join the Huguenot Migration Project [closed]

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Hello! Are you interested in helping with the Huguenot Migration Project?  If so, please answer this post and ask to join the project.

Additionally:

1. Add huguenot to your followed tags.
2.  Add the category [[Category:Huguenot_Migration_Project]] including the double brackets, to your own profile, above your biography section

The WikiTree Huguenot Migration Project defines "Huguenot” as French-speaking Protestant Christians (whatever branch or denomination) that left their homeland (France or borderlands such as Provence, Navarre, Franche Comté or the Spanish Netherlands - today's Belgium) due to religious persecution or intolerance.  Occitan-speaking or Provencal-speaking French Protestants and French-speaking families from today’s Belgium (Walloons, Liegeois) are included.  Note that in this Project we only include the actual Emigrants and their emigrating families, not their Descendants.  We do include "Double Hops," where a family fled France or a borderland for Germany, the Netherlands  or England and then they or their children moved on to America or South Africa or elsewhere, usually beyond Europe. 

This Project is limited in time & space: only Protestant Christians who left their French or borderland home due to religious intolerance between about 1540 and 1790 (when France declared all religions legal) and whose proper language or culture was French (Walloons / Occitans / Provençals included) are part of this Project.  

• Non-French-culture Protestants or descendants beyond “Double Hop” children are not placed in this Project, even though they continued to self-identify as Huguenots.  There will be a “Huguenot Descendant Sticker” to identify them, down to the Present.  A “Huguenot Family Sticker” will identify foreign-born wives, husbands or grand-children of Huguenot emigrants.  A “Huguenot Non-Emigrant Sticker” will identify those French-speaking Protestants who remained in France or a borderland. 

If you are interested in this world-wide diaspora between 1540-1790, please join this Project:  introduce yourself and tell us your Huguenot surnames of interest.

Bienvenue!  / Welcome!

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Hello. I believe I am descended from Pierre Le Grand and Jane Magdalen Michaux, Huguenots who immigrated to Virginia around 1700. Their families came from Ardennes via the French Huguenot church in Amsterdam.

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Hi, I'd like to join this project.

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I'd like to join this project.  Huguenot:  Jacques Cortelyou formerly Cortillon was my 10th great grandfather. Thank you

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I am joining in!   I've added Huguenot to followed tags, put the category on my profile and did a request to join the google groupl

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I have Huguenots on mom's and dad's side.

On mom's we have the de Trieux (now Truax) and de la Grange both recognized in the US group (although mine became consummate United Empire Loyalist.  One of them Elias de Trieux live to 105 if I remember right and skated 5 miles on his 92 birthday.  They ended up in Quebec Canada

On dad's side, we have the famous Mauduit family.  We are unsure of their original name as they became known pejoratively as Maudit for not being Catholics and fled to Portugal, settling into the wool trade rich community of Exeter later in time - and for a time Mauduit, Wright and Company was the most prosperous cloth company in England.

Their family intermarried with the Jacksons and Bealls of Prince Edward county Maryland, moved to St Kitts when my fourth Great Grandmother Anna Mauduit-Garvey became Baroness Pfeilitzer through marriage to Latvian born, Prussian matriculated George Baron Pfeiltizer.  

George's step grandmother was the widow of the Russian General-in-Chief and Governor of Moscow Carl v Biron, brother of Prince Regent Ernst Johan - about the same time as Anna' grandmother was running a bar in Alexandria, Virginia which had a special GW room for her regular patron and occasional dinner guest at home, General George Washington.

At this point the family is all over the world.

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I am a direct descendant of the Bryant Family who emigrated to Manikin Town Virginia around 1700.  Due to marriages I am related to the Lefevre family of Virginia, the Guerrant/Guerin line, the Trabue Family, Dupuy and others.  In addition I am descended from the Leavel family who also were Huguenots who emigrated to Virginia around that time.  I am currently a member of the Huguenot Society of the Founders of Mannikin town in Virginia. I hope to contribute to this project.

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I also descend from one of the settlers at Manakin Town.  My ancestor Claude Philippe de Richbourg was the junior Pastor.

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John, I enjoyed reading about your ancestor on a web page you may have already seen:  http://richbourg.net/48-richbourg-history.html

You are obviously eligible to join the Manikin Huguenot Society and depending on your lineage, the SAR based on John Richbourg, Sr. or his brothers,  Henry, James and Nathaniel Richbourg.  Send me a PM and I can assist you with either or both memberships  

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I am a descendant of Albert Albertse Terhunen born 1619 in Huinen, Gelderland, Netherlands. I would like to join this project.

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I am related to the Lanier family that came into Virginia as well several other early colonial French families

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I am a decedent of Abraham Michaux and Susanne Rochet .  They were Huguenots who came to Virgina  in 1705.  Abraham Micheaux was given a land grant near Powhatan Va.  I would like to join this project.

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Just found connection to Philippe Cassier through Vandenburgh, Houghtaling  and Uziele line!! So excited!!

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Hi, I'd like to get involved with this project. Thanks!

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Hi there I'm interested in this project because I'm descended from Moses Cantine / Elizabeth Deyo.  Would love to contribute as I'm cleaning up the grand Wikitree

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My name is Carolina Dagevos.

My ancestors are Huguenots with the surnames d’Agofos, d’Agoufos, Dagoufos, Dagafoo, Dagavos, Dagovosse.

I love to know more about it.

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I am descended from Abraham Michaux, who also came to Virgina in 1700's and came from Amsterdam.

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Hello Leanne

I believe you requested to join this Project in March 2019  and I wrote a comment on your WikiTree profile - in looking at the profile today, I still do not see that you have: 1) Become a Full Member of WikiTree; 2) Signed our Honor Code and 3) Received the pre-1700 Badge.  Please send me a private message when you have completed these 3 requirements and I will gladly add you to this mostly-pre-1700 Project.  Thanks!  Chet Snow-2128 Huguenot Migration Project Leader

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Abraham Michaux was indeed a French Huguenot.  He is shown on the lineages web page of the Manakin Huguenot Society (http://huguenot-manakin.org/manakin/lineages.php)

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Hi Michael

I see you are already a Project member - glad to have you with us!

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Hi Chet

I have been in contact with you in the past, but since then I have been able to add my Huguenot ancestors from Belgium during the time of the Reformation and Philip II and The Duke of Alva's scourge of West Flanders and other areas of Belgium to my tree..

A very interesting family document is available for the Vancoilge Verkolje and numerous other name variation on www.vancoilge.net.  The document serves as afascinating historical document for my ancestors, but probably would not be of use to many others.  It is written in an old Dutch dialect, but can be translated on Google.  Unfortunately for me it is not accepted as a source for the Dutch Roots Project with whom I am researching.

They Are:  Rogier (Verkolje) van der Coolge from a family group based in Kortrijk (Courtrai), West Flanders, Belgium.. (Verkolje-2)

Sir Peter Rycaut  (Rycaut-1)who was forced to flee his family home in Antwerp during the scourge of Belgian Huguenots as noted above.

However, Rogier and Sir Peter both have acceptable wikitree sources other than the vancoilge document noted above.

and  : a van Asse (father of Rogier (Verkolje-2) who I have not sourced up to this date.

I would like to be awarded the badge and join your group please.

Many thanks

Carolyn Dominish

Giles-3244.

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Thanks Chet and team

I am delighted with my new Huguenot badge.

Carolyn Dominish

Giles-3244

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I would love to join. My ancestors, DeMaranville and Crapo shipwrecked off of Buzzards Bay Massachusetts from France around 1700.

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Hi, I'd love to help in this project please as I have discovered a possible link to a Beugo line of Huguenot's

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I would like to join this group as my ancestor, Jean deJarnet was a French Huguenot settling first in South Carolina.

Thank you,

Nita

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Hi, my Grandmother Gaujot was a member of the Huguenot Society. I have her original membership card.  I am a direct descendant of Jacob Flournoy.  I am interested in doing more research and joining the project.  Thanks, Jane Chilton Dellinger Davis

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Hello

I will be happy to add you to the Project but I need your WikiTree ID - for privacy, please send me a private message via Snow-2128.  Thanks

Chet Snow-2128

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Good day,

I am Olaf Ludolf Terblanche and the surname I am interrested in is Terblanche.

Many Thanks

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Hi, if this project is still running I'd like to join in. I have recently identified a heritage link to emigrants variously recorded as Fene/Fere/Phene from the village of Camblighneul in the former Artois area of France. Fortunately after emigration they attended the Strangers Church inside Canterbury Cathedral, Kent, UK for many generations.  Their birth ,death, marriage, records were rediscovered and collated by a Huguenot Society into a register published in 1894. This register was put online by the Internet Archive in 2015 . Pete

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Please add me to this project. Thank you.

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Interested in these Huguenot ancestors:

Chevalier, Purviance, (La) Bunnell, Lux, Champion, Brownlee, Gaillard

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My direct ancestor Leleu family were Huguenots who left Normandy and escaped to London.The earliest direct Leleu line I can find is Estienne and Marguerite (nee Chevalier). He was born in London in 1690 and she was born London in 1700. I can't seem to find their parents anywhere.I would love to join this project. The Leleus inter married with the English and lived in East London for 400 years.

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Hi, I have several ancestors on both sides who were Huguenots.  One that comes to mind immediately that was descended from Huguenots is Daniel Dugger- forefather to the Dugger family of Virginia.

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Hello,
I would be very interested in joining  the Huguenot Project. I am a descendent of Pierre Chastain Sr.
I have many Dugger’s from Virginia and Tennessee for which I match close DNA as cousins. I have several relatives already in the Huguenot Society because of my Shasteen / Chastain /GGrandparents.

My maternal GGrandma was Elizabeth Josephine Shasteen from Winchester Franklin County, Tennessee US. My moms 5th Great Grandpa was John Ten Shillings Bell Chastain.

My parents are both from Tennessee. I really would like to be included in the Huguenot Project to meet other relatives, I have hopes of helping my 85 year old mom get into The Huguenot Society, as well as myself. Mom has achieved so much as a wonderful, leading business woman in her life time, through several different careers. I really just want to help her get this last cherry on top of the Sunday to add to her list of accolades. Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks,

Terri Solomon McGhee

Solomon-12756

Weaver-12554 my mom- ( I have her permission)

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Hello! I'm interested in joining and confirming my Delishaw ancestors were French Huguenots - so far I haven't been able to find documents that confirm it, only family trees.

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I’ve been working on the Duggers.  If you tell me what’s the furthest back Dugger person on your line, I’m sure I could find where it connects to the main tree.  A pretty much all Duggers in America are descended from the same two people: Daniel Dugger and Mary Scarborough.  Although, there was supposedly another Daniel Dugger living in Virginia in the 1690s who wasn’t related, but not much is known about him.

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Please add me to your project. I am looking for Farver/Favre in the Alsace Lorraine area. Last identifiable relative was Adam Farver, born in 1715*, died in Maryland, USA in 1783.

Thank you,

Patti (Ferver-7)

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Hello, Chet,

I am very interested in the Huguenot migration and settlement project. I live near Manakintowne (Now Manakin-Powhatan), Virginia, and hope to use their library once it is open (after Covid virus quarantine). My aunt was an active member of the Huguenot Society and I am planning to join  ASAP. My Huguenot family names are Guerrant, Trabue, L'Orange, and DuTois, to name a few. I have traced them to France. I am very interested in this lineage and history. I would very much like to be a part of the project and assist in the research. I would like to be added to your group.

Thanks, Carol Davis

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I just sent you a private message on your wiki page. We are Huguenot Cousins!

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Excited to find another cousin. Thank you for the help and the private message.

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So I think You are related to my mom, therefore  I think you might be interested in joining the Huguenot Project on GEDmatch. Moms parents were famous- Earl A. Weaver-Pless and Wilma Davilla Snell from Winchester, Franklun County, Tenn . They were inducted into the Gospel Music Hall if Fame. Mom grandpa was John Ten Shillings Bell Shasteen Shasteen. I live in Frisco, Texas. Terri G Solomon / McGhee is my name. I am part of a 50 person Shasteen project on Gedmatch. I wondered if you might be interested in joining the reserach group? If so, please follow the links below. Thanks, [email address removed] Terri_McGhee60. On Ancestry Shasteen project It would be so great if you could join the Shasteen/ Chasteen/ Chastain project. Here is how:

Just FOLLOW this link for instructions to download Your raw DNA file from ANCESTRY or Another DNA Testing Site : https://dna-explained.com/2018/08/15/ancestry-step-by-step-guide-how-to-upload-download-dna-files/

Then create a GEDmatch account at: https://www.gedmatch.com/login1.php

After you have the GEDmatch kit number and uploaded the raw DNA file....You can follow these instructions: Log into your GEDmatch account at https://www.gedmatch.com/login1.php On the right side of the homepage, under DNA Applications, click on Ancestor Projects. Follow instructions within. Terri Solomon / McGhee Let me know if you need help.

INSTRUCTIONS TO JOIN NEW FACEBOOK GROUP

There is also a new Facebook group called Chastain DNA Project. This group will be a forum to discuss our matches and findings. We are a GEDmatch private project FB group and follow the privacy rules of GEDmatch. We do not repost (copy & paste) any information about any member in this FB group or GEDmatch to another FB group or website. To join the Chastain DNA Project Facebook group you must have a GEDmatch kit number, be a member of the Chastain DNA Project, and answer the questions in the request to join. You will find us at https://www.facebook.com/groups/718611882070900 . We hope to see you there!

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Hello, Terri,  I will check it out. Thanks so much for the information. I will let you know what I find. Carol

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I'm trying to locate my direct ancestors who remained in France. However, their son did immigrated to de Caep de Hoede in 1688

Daniel Rousseau b circa 1640 - 1731 - Suèvres, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France

married: Marie Retif b circa 1644 - Orleans, Centre, France

Any suggestions?

Regards

Tina

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You very welcome.

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I descend from Hester du Bois & Glaude (Claude) de la Maistre who emigrated from the Netherlands to Brooklyn in 1652.

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Hello John

Thank you for your comment.  This thread is about joining the Huguenot Migration Project here on WikiTree.  I see you are a Guest  Member so please know that we only accept full WikiTree members who have signed our "Honor Code" as Project members.  When you take that step, please return here and use ANSWER to request to join and we will be happy to add you to our badged membership list.  

Best wishes

Chet Snow, Huguenot Migration Project Leader

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Sorry...Where's the honor pledge?

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Hi John

The Honor Code is a pledge all our Full Members sign when they join WikiTree.  Here is a URL that helps explain it:

www.wikitree.com/wiki/Special:Honor_Code

Also you should see

www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Membership

It explains the different levels of Membership - signing the Honor Code online automatically upgrades you to full or "Wiki Genealogist" membership.  At that time you can use this G2G thread - ANSWER not a Comment - and ask to join the Huguenot Migration Project.

Good luck and Happy Ancestor Hunting!

Chet Snow, Leader Huguenot Migration Project

Answer 1

I would like to join this project.  I am descended from the DuBois family who helped found New Paltz, New York.

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Hi Jennie

Thank you for your comment but I already awarded you the Huguenot Migration Project badge last September.  Please go to this page to join our Google Group and then add the appropriate Stickers that apply to your ancestors and yourself. 

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Huguenot_Migration

Best to you

Chet Snow-2128

 

Answer 2

JOOST DURYEA WAS MY 8TH TIME GREAT GRANDFATHER AND A HUGUENOT.

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Hi 9th Cousin! I'm also descended from Joost Duryea, in fact I originally added the profile back in 2012. Nice to see you.

Answer 3

I'm interested in Huguenots of the name Tromparent and whether they are connected to the Trumperant family in Ireland (Protestants) who first appear in Ireland in the late 1600s (as best as I can tell).

Answer 4

I have one Huguenot ancestor, Jean Bossard, and his family from Alsace-Lorraine, France who arrived in Virginia on the  ship Peter & Anthony. and also one Catholic French ancestor, Lt. Col. John Jarboe who settled in Maryland.

Answer 5

I am also interested in Huguenots because I have relatives who came from Germany and Ireland I think some of them are Huguenots. So I would like to be in the project and get a badge also.

Answer 6

Hello, my French Huguenots left France around 1685, from Poitou Charentes. Surnames Péloquin and Rousseau. I would love to join. Thank you!

Answer 7

Family Letter from a relative that went to Annweiler Germany in 1942 to locate cousins.

Summary:  Gulielmo Amis was driven out of Lyons France in the fall of 1624 and with his family, walked to Annweiler.  The town took them in and took care of them, and he built the flour mill.    Annweiler built a French Church for their exiles and employed a French preacher.

The American immigrants:  Christian Amis, Charlotte Hock, and another sister who married a Schultz

There is a bit more in the letter about the cousins that remained in Annweiler.

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Odd time to visit Germany.

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Wendy, this would be a good thing for a free space page, with images of each page of the letter, plus transcriptions, and any other details related to the letter and its contents.  Then each person associated with the letter can be linked to the page as a source.

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Feel free to do that Rob if you think it's worth it.    I posted the letter on a profile I made for him.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Amis-285

I managed to confirm a lot of the information in the letter, except the part about my ancestors going with the cannons to Texas.

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Wendy, I had been too busy to take a look, finally got around to it now, and I don't think you need another page for it, as you already have the images on his page, type written so no transcriptions needed.  When you add the family members and connect to Charlotte, you can link each one directly to the pages.  I'd probably copy a relevant excerpt into each profile added.

Answer 8

Pierre Rousseau (born around 1666, Mer (Menars-la-ville) near Blois, France) who met his first wife-to-be while sailing on the Borssenburg from Texel to de Caep de Goede Hoop where it docked on 12 May 1688. 

The Rousseau surname subsequently changed under Dutch influence to the current version of Rossouw. I'm a direct descendant and part of the COGH Project. I'm specifically researching his descendants and their immediate family members in South Africa. 

I'm also already member of the Huguenot Migration Project as quite a number of French Protestant refugees migrated to Southern Africa. 

Answer 9

I'd like to join. I have some possible huguenots in my tree.

The name is BUSSON

Whether or not they are huguenots, has not yet been proven as the name is french, the century is right but we have no idea where they came from.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Busson-6

Answer 10

I'm sorry to have to withdraw from the project.  I haven't spent any time on WikiTree for a long time, and don't see that changing soon. Good luck!

Susan Campbell

Answer 11

I am researching John Roseall, he married Mary Johnson in London, England. 04 Jan 1667-8. "Allegations for Marriage Licenses" Westminster Abby.

 The 1st reference of him in America is "The Annals of Newtown in Queens County New York" by James Riker Jr. Also "Families of the Colonial Town of Philipsburgh" by Grenville C. Mackenzie.

My main purpose is to complete an application for the Huguenot Society of North Carolina, I appreciate any help that can be provided for this purpose, My brick wall is between generations 3 and 4 at a John Rozell and Richard Rozell "Rockingham Co. NC Will 11th May 1798". As I only need to prove back to to the 1st generation that came to America, which is John Roseall.

Answer 12

Working on adding my Huguenot ancestors Balliet, Votring, Mickley, and others who immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1733 and 1738 from the Alsace-Lorraine area in France.

Answer 13

Hans Jost Heydt or Hite (5 Dec 1685 - 17 May 1761) native of Alasce, was prolly the first of the name in America. He came by ship 'Hartwell' in 1710. His wife, Anna Maria de Bois is our Huguenot ancestry. I'm trying to trace my grandpa's leanige to them via Charles Edward Hite (b.1934) married Alma Irene Steers on 20 Feb 1954 in Cornith, MS. Charles resides in pulaski county, Illinois. John Hite (1890's - 1940's) married twice , 2nd marriage to Charles' mother, Flora Mae (born DeWeese) Hite Ramage. He was young when his dad past, sadly not much information was given to him about John. Any help would be most appreciated by our clan of Hites!

Answer 14

I am descended through Elias Horry and would like to join this project.

Answer 15

Hi, Our family believes we have direct linage through Jacques de Bourdeaux to his father Evremond De Bourdeaux and his wife Catherine of Grenoble, France. Definitely interested in prior ancestors, and the Huguenot movement. Would lie to join this project!

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I think they prefer honest people!   :)   (who don't need to lie!)

Answer 16

I answered once before and you need me to reduce my watchlist and I have done that so I am ready to join and have a badge now.

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Hi Linda

Thank you for following thru on your promise to reduce your Watch List below the 5,000 maximum that WikiTree requests.  I am delighted to award you the Huguenot Migration Project badge and Welcome you to the Project.  The Project Page is:  https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Huguenot_Migration

You can join the Project Google Group from that page if you wish.

Also, please scroll down it to the TEMPLATES section as our first step in the project is to add the appropriate STICKER (see Templates) to all the ancestors on your Watch List who qualify as Huguenot Emigrants, or a Family member, or a Descendant (or even Protestant ancestor). 

Best wishes always

 

Chet Snow

 

Answer 17

Please add me to the project. I've joined the google group and added the tag and category to my profile. I'm descended from Rev. Jean Joseph Brumeau De Moulinars, Joost Duryee, Jean (Mousnier) de la Montagne, Bourgon Broucard, and some others. I'd love to add more references and improve the profiles I manage. 

Answer 18

hi I'm mary Chastain 4th great grand daughter I'm almost positive she is a desendent of perrie Chastain I would love to know for sure

Answer 19

yes I would love to join this project

Answer 20

I am a Lamoreux (descended from Andre and Suzanne LaTour). Since I have so many, I guess I should join here and make sure I coordinate with everyone else!