Baptism Entry for Jacob Bourgeois
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La Ferte, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France 
When: 8 Jan 1628.
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"that provides any solid indication that he might have been the same Jacques Bourgeois who emigrated to Acadia. That is why my Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes shows no origine for our ancestor Jacques Bourgeois. There must be at least a degree of probability of identity, in addition to a mere possibility, before such can be included in a publication like mine, particularly where, as here, the ancestors name was such a common one."
"Regarding the baptismal record of which you forwarded me a copy, I see nothing in it that indicates that the child in question was subsequently known as Jacques Bourgeois, and even if he did come to be so known, there is nothing in the articles of René Perron (« De Germain Doucet à Jacques Bourgeois », Cahiers de la Société historique acadienne, vol. XXII (1991), p. 86-114; « Bourgeois & Doucet : à Bassevelle, des suites suprenantes », ibidem, vol. XXIII (1992), p. 27-46; et « Découverte dun Jacob Bourgeois à La Ferté-Gaucher, critiques et commentaires», ibidem, vol. XXIII (1992), p. 95-103) ..." (con'td)