Welcome to the Quebecois project

Question

Hello all, do you have an interest in people born in New France between the start of the colony of Canada (in St-Lawrence valley) and 1763 when France ceded its territory to England?  Then join our project.  To do so, answer this question so a leader can award you the badge, and follow the instructions on this page:
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Quebecois

There are 2 sub-projects also, which may be of interest to you:

The ''Filles du roy'' (daughters of the king): https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Filles_du_Roi

The ''Filles à marier'' (marriageable girls): https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Filles_%C3%A0_marier

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I have been working on my Acadian genealogy recently making great breakthroughs and finding new resources and thought it was a good time to review the other side of my French family tree. My family was from St. Laurent area the family name is Salois (or Saloue, Salsis) - aka Sallaway here in the US. I went back to Quebec a few years ago and visited the family church. There are only about 100 Salois listed in Wikitree and it would be nice to have them included in the greater Quebec Project. I look forward to participating in another great Wikitree project and adding this family.

Regards Morgan

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hi Morgan,

the project only covers up to 1763, ie when the English renamed the area Province of Québec, previously was Canada, Nouvelle-France.  The project name is somewhat misleading, but no concensus has ever been reached on a more appropriate name for it.

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The Acadian project has time constraints also, there is a tag for the descendant of a person who is within the timeframe of the project but was born outside the project timeframe. Does this project have such a category tag to add the the post 1763 decendants?

Regards,

Morgan

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no Morgan, we don't, for one thing there are a gazillion people it could apply to.  Acadians are much fewer to start with and a lot of them perished or got lost somewhere unknown with the deportation.

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I am interested in joining this project - I have adding early Québécois family to my own family line, then extended family, and now I'd like to look at whole parishes, especially the earlier ones.

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hello Jessie, could you please convert your comment to an answer?  That way things can get properly tracked.

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I'm from Quebec and the great majority of my ancestors are as well.

What I'm wondering is if we could (should?) make the biographies and details in both languages on profiles of people from Quebec.

Has it ever been thought or discussed? Thanks!

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hi Ken,

For the Filles du Roi and Filles à Marier, those sub-projects include getting the bios done in both languages.  For those with no descent, I've been doing them mainly in French, if someone has an interest in translating them afterwards they are welcome to do so.  But definitely French bios are appropriate for Francophones.

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I sure have a lot of interest for this period. Pour sûr.

Il semble que la plupart des premiers colons sont venus de Normandie, enfin les ancêtres que je vois dans mon arbre.
 

When I made my tree, and I wrote the dates, I saw some people who went from New-France, to the British Colonial america and wondered how they felt. A few of them even got to  the Canada-Uni

What a time, it was to be alive

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Bonjour Anne-Marie, si vous voulez vous joindre au projet, il faut cliquer sur le bouton ANSWER et mettre une réponse.  

Answer 1

I would like de join/participate in this project.  I am mostly interested in Tremblay ancestors in North America.  20 years ago I started a website...  Le Railliment WEB des Tremblay and was webmaster for several years until the web server closed down.

I work in english and...  je travail aussi en français

I am / je suis... St-Tremblay 

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hello St-Tremblay, ,  welcome aboard!  Take time to get familiar with guidelines on the project page, and good luck keeping all the Tremblay straight.  You'll probalby find a number of them are already in WikiTree.

Our leader will get you your badge soon.

Answer 2

Please remove my badge and project membership for now.

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hi Steve, what's up?

Answer 3

Yes, I have an interest in joining the Quebecois Project. My northern family are mostly Quebecois, Filles du Roy and from Perche.

Thanks,

     Cynthia Henderson Ernst

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hi Cynthia, welcome aboard, our leader will get you your badge soon.  We're probably cousins to some degree if your roots go back that far here.

Answer 4

Hello,

My French-Canadian great-grandmother's family name was changed to Geranto when they moved to Wisconsin in the 1880s, but thanks to clues from dozens of DNA matches in Ancestry.Com and searching the amazing PRDH-IGD records I discovered she was baptized as de Ladurantaye and I have traced her roots all the way back to 1600s Quebec. If it weren't for the pandemic, I would have been visiting Quebec this summer. My Quebecois ancestors are by far the most interesting branch of my family tree and I would like to join this project. Thank you and stay safe!

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hello Cheryl, welcome aboard!  Our leader will get you your badge soon.

de La Durantaye, as it would have read originally, is based upon an old seigneurie.  Will be interesting to see if you wind up with its seigneur as ancestor. 

Answer 5

sorry, im only interested in France. i keep getting updates on Acadians and Quebecois but to be honest im not interested in that at all. i have zero connections to Canada. how can i opt out of these tags?

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hi Laura, on your own profile you have tags that you follow (Box headed ''Following''), edit those to remove the ones you aren't interested in.  Not sure how else you may be getting such.

Answer 6

I would like to join the Québecois project.  I belive all my ancestors are french canadian and arrive on this side of the Atlantic before 1760.

Maryse

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bonjour cousine

Welcome aboard.  Please get familiar with the guidelines on the project page.  Our leader will get you your badge soon.

Answer 7

I'm interested in joining this project.

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hi Peter, welcome aboard, our leader will get you your badge soon.

Answer 8

I would like to be added as a member of the project.

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hi Judith, didn't realize you weren't among us already.  Our leader will get you your badge soon.

Answer 9

I am very interested in the history of my Larocque ancestors in New France, especially those who moved eventually to the eastern townships of the region that became Ontario. I believe my original ancestor in Canada may be Philibert Couillaud dit Roquebrune.

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Hello Cindy , welcome aboard, our leader will get you your badge soon.  Meanwhile, please get familiar with the guidelines on names and place names on the project page.

Answer 10

I am researching my family history in the Laprairie region. I have a feeling my Hooper relations are up there though I'm having a hard time finding verifiable info. But I have my G-G-Grandmother Salomae (Gonyea) Hooper's family traced back to Jacques Gagne (1731-1808) and Agnes Gervais (1741-1812). I am presently looking for a link to his father whom we have listed as Pierre and mother Madeleine Dupuis. So the Quebecois project greatly interests us.

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hi Keith,  must say Gonyea is a strange way to spell Gagné, but looking at it phonetically, could possibly be how an English person would interpret it.  

As far as Jacques Gagné (married to Agnès Gervais), his parents as named on his marriage were François Gagné and Marie Jeanne Dupuy.  Jacques' profile already exists: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gagn%C3%A9-1882

His parents are both deceased then, and his mother was actually mostly called Marie Madeleine.

Obviously more work needed on him.  Have connected him to his parents.

Welcome to the project, our leader will get you your badge soon.

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Oh My God THANK YOU so much. I was expecting to have to wait months or longer for someone to hit on this. This is the link I needed. Now it confirms our family definitively fits in with the rest of the Gagnes in Quebec. Yeah, I know about the spelling deal. It was a suprise to me to see that the name originated as Gagnier. I found it was "Anglecanized" when they came stateside with Salomae's father alexander. He was the first one to list in the census as Gonyea. His father is listed as Gagne in Quebec. But the Gonyea name has stuck and their descendents still use it today. Many in Massachusets. Like I said we went for many years with a brick wall at Alexander (Salomae's father) So this is a BIG deal for us. we can now trace our tree on their side back to France in the late 1400's. Thanks again.

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quite welcome, but I must note the names would have been Alexandre and Salomé or Salomée.  There was also the form Gasnier as origin of the name.

Just connect up your family to him, you may have to create his wife's profile, or she may exist already, I didn't do a search for her.  We only want a single profile per person so we get to be one big happy family all together.  

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Salomae was how she spelled it herself and how it's shown on her gravestone. Alexander is how it shows on the Census forms we have. We also found his wife. We had her as Elizabeth, from the census, but found more records listing her as Isabel Desnoyers. Which ties in with another family we have links to. I will be doing searches to get the links in tonight and add any individuals who aren't already on the site.

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don't know if Alex could read or not, many couldn't back then.  Baptism is where you will get the exact spelling used for him.

Note that Isabel /Isabelle and Élisabeth (French form) are mutual nicknames for a large part of the early days.

Answer 11

Hi all! I recently discovered my grandmother's French-Canadian ancestry and have become obsessed with tracing it. I'm an artist, and working on a way to visualize all of the consanguinity involved through paper sculpture. I'm also specifically interested in the migration of descendants of original Quebecois settlers to the Detroit River region in the 18th century.

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Hello Anna, welcome aboard!  Please get familiar with the guidelines on names and place names on the project page.  Our leader will get you your badge soon.

Interesting you are working on a 3d tree, am working on one of those myself, although I use wire that I recuperate from used appliances etc that don't work any more and that people are ditching.  

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Thanks, Danielle!

and, whoa that sounds really cool!! I occasionally teach through a "creative reuse" place, and one of my favorite materials is re-purposed appliance and telephone wire - have been playing with how that might work in my tree too! Let me know if you ever want to connect about our 3D trees!

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lol, any tips on what to use for the name labels?  Sticky paper labels just aren't good enough, they either fall of or alter with time.  

Answer 12

Hi! I'd like to join the project, please! I'm from Quebec (Saguenay) and most of my contacts are. I'm starting from people I know and I go up until I meet ancestors who already have profiles but I came up with lines that won't end until before the 1700s and I can't update them for now. I'd like to help :)

Thanks!

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Hello Ken, bienvenu à bord.    Our leader will get you your badge soon.

For the pre-1700 profiles, you need to be pre-1700 certified.  There's a procedure to do that here: https://www.wikitree.com/quiz/pre_1700

Bonne chance si vous vous attaquez aux Tremblay, qui sont légion!  Faut y aller tout doucement et ne pas être pressé, il y en a tant que c'est facile de confondre.

Answer 13

I am interested as most of my direct ancestors can be linked to them!

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Hello I., welcome aboard.  Please get familiar with the guidelines on the project page for names and place names.  Our leader will get you your badge soon.

Answer 14

I'm slacking on learning French but I'm a Michigander of Quebecois descent. :) I've already worked on some profiles of Quebecois ancestors, I don't mind helping out where I can. Sign me up!

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hi Anonymous, welcome aboard!  Get familiar with our guidelines on the project page, our leader will get you your badge soon.

Answer 15

Tremblay, c't'ivident. ;-)

Seriously, born and raised in Québec, 95% of my ancestors arrived on the St-Lawrence shores before the conquest.

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Bonjour Simon, bienvenue à bord.    svp vous familiariser avec les lignes directrices du projet (''guidelines'', que je traduirai un de ces jours), quant aux noms et noms de lieux.  On a beaucoup de profils déjà créés avant 1750, alors c'est mieux de faire une recherche avant d'en créer des doubles.

Our leader will get you your badge soon.

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Bonjour Danielle. Merci pour l'acceuil. Pour le moment je vais me concentrer sur faire les liens avec mon arbre.

Answer 16

I would like to join and participate in this project. My mother's line goes straight back to Quebec in every person, at least the brick walls point in that direction. I'm working on learning how to make fleshed out profiles, but at the very least I get all the base sources I know of to add to profiles.

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Hello W., welcome aboard.  Please get familiar with the guidelines on the project page.  Our leader will get you your badge soon.

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Thank you! I've been reading the guidelines and adjusting what I've already done to match those.

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much appreciated 

Answer 17

Hi, my name is Langis and most of my ancestors are from the Province of Quebec.  I would like to join your project.

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Hello Langis, welcome aboard, our leader will get you your badge soon.

Answer 18

Hi, I am from Quebec just like the majority of my ancestors and I'd like to join the project.

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hello Grégory, welcome to the project.  Please get familiar with the guidelines on the project page.  Our leader will get you your badge soon.

Answer 19

Québécois born and bred! I have 394 distinct, direct, immigrant ancestors, about 95 of them are repeated up to 8 times. It would be a great honor to help this project!

I live in Quebec City where street names, monuments and commemorative plaques that honor the memory of our ancestors are common. Do you think adding pictures of them would enhance their biography?

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Bonjour Jonathan, bienvenue parmi nous.  Our leader will get you your badge soon.

As far as pictures and plaques, it depends on their relevance to the person, and obviously they should not be under copyright, but yes, those can be added.  Although street name-plaques would not be very decorative.  

Answer 20

Hello! I would love to join the Québecois project as my fathers paternal line is completely French. I can trace countless ancestors back to the early 1600s (and further) in France and New-France. I’m particularly interested in the Lecompte, Laplante, Jean-Louis and Narbonne families. I can’t say a specific location as we are from all over Quebec and France. Thank you for reading this!

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hi Payton, welcome aboard, our leader will get you your badge soon.  Meanwhile, please get familiar with the name and location guidelines on the project page, which also apply later.

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Will do! Thank you for the reply and accepting me into the project. :D