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

Comments

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

Many Quebecois ancestors, including multiple Filles du Roi.

Comments

hi Clyde, please get familiar with the guidelines on names and place names in the project page.  Welcome aboard, our leader will get you your badge soon.

Answer 2

My earlier answer did not specifically request membership.  Please add me as a member,

Thank you,

Clyde

Answer 3

My maternal grandfather is French Canadian from the Quebec region and did a lot of early research on his line I’m picking up his results and looking to dig deeper.  We know we are descendent from the Filles du Roi Catherine Baillon specifically I would love to find more information about that time period thank you

Comments

hi Chris, welcome aboard, our leader will get you your badge soon.  Meanwhile, please get familiar with the guidelines on names and location names on the project page.

Answer 4

I am interested in joining this group because my both sides of my family from Quebec. My first ancestor was a solder in Carignan Salieres Regiment. A few of my surnames are Chagnon, Poirier, Monty, Cusson, Burel and Bouchard.

Comments

hi Bard, welcome aboard, our leader will get you your badge soon.  Meanwhile, please get familiar with the guidelines on names and location names in the project page.

Cusson?  Cousins then, since I also have some of those, including the first one who came here.  

Answer 5

Greetings,

I have many entries yet to do for the Gaspe region as well as all across Canada for family members.

Regards,

     Mike

Comments

hello Mike, welcome aboard.  Please note that this project mainly deals with New France era, despite what its name might imply.  Please get familiar with the guidelines on names and place names on the project page.  Our leader will get you your badge soon.

Answer 6

I am interested in this project because I have paternal ancestors that I would like to know more about.

Comments

hello Crystal, welcome aboard!  Our leader will get you your badge soon.  Meanwhile, please get familiar with guidelines on names and place names on the project page.

Answer 7

I'm also interested in joining this project

Comments

hi Mati, you must have pressed enter 3 times to get this triplicate answer.  You can delete the other two.  Sometimes there is a bit of time-lag between clicking the add button and the response showing up on here.  

Meanwhile, 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.

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The UI was telling me I couldn't post the answer because it was already posted, so I assumed I couldn't duplicate answers from other people, and so was changing my message and trying to post it again.

I just hide the other 2 answers (I couldn't see an option to delete them).

Thanks!

Answer 8

I am a direct descendant from Michel Arbour (1647), arrived 1665. Neuville QC.

I am willing to assist if needed.

Comments

welcome aboard Scott, I actually know a distant cousin of yours, also descended from him, she bears the name.  And 2 of his sons married sisters of one of my own ancestors.  

Please get familiar with the guidelines on the project page for both personal and place names.  Our leader will get you your badge soon.

Answer 9

I note that I already have the filles du roi badge (Madeline Bailly), and wonder if I should add the Quebecois badge. I recently found out that my gg aunt married the half brother of Wilfrid Laurier, which rekindled my interest in that part of the family.

Comments

hi Anne, Wilfrid Laurier is later than the project's time frame, but if you want to climb up, sounds good to me.  Our leader will get you your badge soon.

Answer 10

Sure Danielle, please count me in.

Comments

salut Daniel, please get familiar with guidelines on names and place names.  Our leader will get you your badge soon.

Answer 11

Just came here from the Filles du Roi project page. I've been researching my family tree over the past month and have numerous connections back to Québec on both sides of my family.

Comments

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

Answer 12

Bonjour, I would like to join the Quebecois project. Developping all branches of my family tree (from now to the settlers), I am now working more and more on ancestor's profiles that were living in the Nouvelle-France's era, motivating my interest in the group.

Regards,  

Guy

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Bonjour Guy, bienvenue parmi nous.  SVP vous familiariser avec les lignes directrices (guidelines) sur la page du projet en ce qui a trait aux noms de personnes et de lieux.  Je n'ai pas fini de tout traduire, ça viendra.

Vous seriez pas parent d'Hélène Pednault par hasard?

Our leader will get you your badge soon.

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Nous ne sommes pas des parents "rapprochés", mais convaincu que nous le sommes dans une des lignées, ne le sommes-nous pas  tous pas un peu quelques part.

Salutations

Answer 13

I am interested in joining this project.  My branches on both my paternal and maternal lineages can be traced back to 17th century Quebec. They spread out throughout New England and my line settled in southern New Hampshire and Massachusetts.  I look forward to being a part of this project.

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hello Bree Constance, welcome aboard, our leader will get you your badge soon, meanwhile, please get familiar with guidelines on names and place names on the project page.

Answer 14

Bonjour, j'aimerais m'impliquer pour contribuer au projet.

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Bonjour Gabrielle, bienvenue parmi nous.  

Our leader will get you your badge soon.

Answer 15

Descended from Etienne Campeau, settled in Montreal around the 1650's, who married Catherine Paulo, a Filles du Roi. Etienne's Great-Grandson Jean Marie came to Louisiana from Fort Detroit in the 1780's, who was my first Louisiana ancestor.

Comments

Hi Lance, your ancestor is here https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Campeau-22

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

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Thank you ma'am.

Answer 16

I would like to join this project.  My maternal line goes all the way back to Anne Gerard 1630-1710 (our first Fillr du Roi) & Nicolas Daudelin 1636-1699.  Is fully documented and in the process of being up loaded. I have done several French Canadian genealogies for others also.

Comments

hello Diane, welcome aboard.  Please get familiar with guidelines on names and place names on the project page, which apply to Filles du Roy and everybdoy else for this area.  Our leader will get you your badge soon.

In the process of being uploaded?  Are you speaking of a GEDCOM perchance?  Anne Girard (not Gerard) and Nicolas Daudelin already have existing profiles.

Answer 17

I am interested!  We had reunions when I was a kid, and no one knew exactly where our ancestors came from in Canada, just Quebec.  I finally researched them, and they had setted in Contrecoeur in the mid 1600s, then to St-Barnabe Sud, emmigrating to the US in the 1850s.  I am also a descendant of Louis Hebert.

Comments

hi Karen, welcome aboard, our leader will get you your badge.  Meanwhile, please get familiar with the guidelines on the project page on both personal and place names.

Louis Hébert?  Hi cousin.  

Answer 18

When I was growing up, we lived 6 miles from the Canadian border (Swanton, VT), and visited Henryville regularly for family reunions (my grandmother was from there). Mom used to go shopping in Philipsburg and St. Armand, bought gas, wheat, cornmeal, etc. all cheaper in Canada, and at the end of June we came home with 'crackers'.  Don't tell, fireworks were illegal in Vermont, but  we got fire-crackers across the border! My DNA says I'm 57% French, and all came through Quebec to get here. Lots of Filles du Roi and Carignan soldiers in our lines.

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hi Tom, 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.  By the way, we're 7th cousins.  

Answer 19

I'd like to join the Quebecois project! Merci.

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

Answer 20

Recently discovered a Canadian connection to my father's line, Wyman. His great-grandmother was born in Quebec Canada in 1796. Sadly, her time period will not qualify her for the project but her ancestors will on her mother's side will.  

I am fairly new to WikiTree but am looking forward to learning how to become a more competent researcher.  Thank you!

Michelle Wyman

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hi Michelle, 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.