
Cindy (Bourque) Cooper
Honor Code SignatorySigned 18 Jul 2016 | 81849 contributions | 6595 thank-yous
My father got me started in genealogy, though sadly I never got to actually work on it with him. He and my cousin put together one of those huge sheets of 512+ people, all from Acadie and Quebec, and all done with no internet. It was almost completely correct. Now in my own retirement, I've taken up the hobby, er, obsession. His sheet helped me locate and complete all the ancestors and their families in his family on Wikitree. And then I had to learn more and began fixing other peoples profiles as a Data Doctor (a great learning tool as well as being helpful), and on and on. In the past couple of years I got absorbed with the Acadians and am a project co-leader. I spend most of my time on profiles between 1600 and 1760. I feel as though I know many other Wikitree members, and appreciate the tips and help I've received from many.
While working on Acadians, I find that I am related to a number of the First Families, a direct line to Antoine Bourg and his wife Antoinette Landry, and also Vincent Brun and his wife Marie René Breau. Also Richard, Comeau, Hebert, Gaudet, Rimbault, at least one Mi'kmaq on my fathers father's side. On his mothers side it was Roibichaud, Boudrot, Aucoin, Theriot, Gautrot and Edmee Lejeune. Probably the most well known of my grandmothers family is Le Borgne, De La Tour, D'abbadie and his native wife and her father Madockawando. The person who links me furthest back is De Salazar.
The Quebec connection is also prevalent, coming direct from France as well as a few Acadians who fled there during the expulsion. I am not sure of the count of Filles du Roi but maybe 30+.
In my free time I do a lot of hiking and make jewelry in Tucson, AZ where I live with my husband and two cats (who have not inherited this hobby but are intensely interested in food). The kids aren't too interested either, though I hope someday will pick their children's names from among the many beautiful French names in my tree.
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Cindy
By modifying a profile, I discovered the existence of "One Place Studies".
How do I get the list of "One Place Studies"?
The profile https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Langlois-1862 contains a "One Place Studies" for Neuville, Quebec, CA.
It seems incomplete to me because there is no connection.
Can you help me please. ?
Example
South Pool, Devon One Place study Space: South_Pool% 2C_Devon_One_Place_Study https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:South_Pool%2C_Devon_One_Place_Study
Thank you !
Alain Bourque
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:One_Place_Studies Cindy
I save your link in my favorites.
Since this morning, I have read several pages on the subject.
However, I was not able to correct the syntax or understand the problem of redirecting to Neuville in the profile https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Langlois-1862.
What is the solution so that OPS becomes clickable towards Neuville?
This link works:Thank you for your help !
Alain Bourque
This person, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Haywood-41
I found a site on the Places Directory. Directory of place: http://www.oneplacestudy.org/
Do we have a directory on WikiTree?
Thank you !
Alain Bourque
I have been working on my family tree since the year 2000 but i am not a genealogist and for that reason i am wondering if i made a mistake when i signed the honor code. Beatrice Boudreau Costello
Fletcher
Cindy
Armand Le Fort
Stick with it, WikiTree can be a bit confusing at first, but you might come to love it. I do. Cindy
I'm guessing that's volume 2, pages 983 - 1012. Is this his genealogy?
edited by Donna Fournier
Cindy
One possibility: (not the right children but was in PA) http://mwlandry.ca/genealog/getperson.php?personID=I10451&tree=03
I ended up going through the White list. There are 8 Charles LeBlanc's, one was born in Port Royal, a couple died around 1755-1764, one was in Massachusetts, another was married in France, then Southhampton, then went to Louisiana, another went to France and died in Bangor (Main I presume). One was married in 1744 and likely would have more than 2 children if deported in 1755. I think that leaves no good candidates for your question. There was a Charles deported in 1755 from Grand Pre but he had no wife or children. I didn't find any other candidates in Landry or Reader. There is a Charles leBlanc listed in deportees to Pennsylvania with his wife Anne LeBlanc and 3 children.
Edited to add more info.
edited by Cindy (Bourque) Cooper
Charles was 7 when deported with Charles, mother and brother Francois. Mother died on arrival in Philadelphia, father disappeared. Eventually, he changed his name to Charles White. He never married, amassed a fortune, left no will and many people claimed to be his Acadian relative as they fought over his money.
There were two others born in St. Charles aux Mines, one son of Jacques and the other the son of Francois. On the earlier end of Charles son of Charles I could find no combination of father son both named Charles. Again there were some younger Charles but none seemed to have either a later death date nor a Pennsylvania connection.
In the Pennsylvania deportations there was a Charles, hiw fie and three children, none of these others were named.
Do you have a link to that court record?
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/advanced-big-y-dna-test-results-reveal-leger-surname-marker-marie
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Rollet-132
Cindy
nice article (in French) concerning Acadian history, lots of sources. https://lebloguedeguyperron.wordpress.com/2021/03/14/286-lexpedition-du-navire-le-saint-clement-pour-lacadie-en-1643/
Danielle
Thank you for your participation in October 2020’s Source-a-thon. Your contributions helped us to clear over 57,000 profiles that needed sourcing. This makes our Shared Tree all that much better.
Keep up the great work!
Pippin Sheppard WikiTree’s Appreciation Team
Do you have an Gedmatch ID ?
Patrice
Probably because of my Acadian roots. I have four riddles in my family tree and my DNA connects me to the vast majority of newcomers to Canada, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and Louisiana. Arsenault, Aucoin, Bélanger, Bernier, Bérubé, Blanchard, Bouchard, Boudrot, Caron, Chiasson, Cloutier, Comeau, Cormier, Coté, Doiron, Dubé, Dufour, Dugas, Fortin, Fournier, Gagné, Gagnon, Gamache, Gaudet, Girouard, Hébert, Houde, Lagassie, Mélanson, Mignier, Miville, Ouellet, pelletier, Racine, Saint-Pierre, Simard, Thériault, Thibault, Thibodaux, Tremblay, and so Detchevrry, Orsiny, Lafitte .
A real hell to study as the families are so mixed together, so impossible, it is not possible at this time to identify an MRCA. Patrice
1 - René LANDRY 1618-/1686 &1645 Perrine BOURG 1626-1693/ 2 - Jean Claude LANDRY 1605 & Marie Perrine BOURG 1600-1686 i don't know if this two branch are finaly the only same branch...
There is a Perrine Rau who has an Other last name of Bourg, she was born in 1611 married to Jean Theriot (Rau-71) if you'd like to check her out. I did not find a Jean Claude Landry born in 1605 in WikiTree. If you can provide more information about him, I'll see what I can do to find one. Best wishes - Cindy
Thank you for this information. The problem is about my four riddles in my family tree, i have no direct connection to Acadian Family, just a big cluster of genetic cousins who shared with me some different segments of chromosomes. This is the difficulty, these family are too mixed for finding an only MRCA isolated like i made with my english branch of PEDIGO/ELKINS (enigma 4) or WISE/DENMARK (enigma 3).
1799 - Bordeaux France - Jacques Tobie ( given name), abandonned child, my male line with Y chromosome R1b-CTS4188 from Pays Basque 1828 - Bordeaux France - Marc Anien (given name), abandonned child. My link is by this two abandonned child, so the link is broken and i have to find MRCA by crossing information from my genetic cousins Patrice
Thanks for all the work you accomplished during our Connect-A-Thon 2020. It is amazing how many more profiles were created and added to our Shared Tree. You have every right to be pleased with your efforts!
Kind regards,
Pippin Sheppard ~ WikiTree’s Appreciation Team
One teeny tiny little thing to know is that the Acadian french women did not take their husbands last name. They kept their own throughout all the records. If you wish, you can put their spouses last name in Other last names, while their LNAB goes in the Current Last name.
Thank you for your contributions! Cindy
I noticed that you changed the birth location field on Anenontha-1. The Pays d’en Haut was claimed as part of New France, but was west of the settlement area along the Saint Lawrence River, and, as I understand it, not part of Canada itself. You can find more information on the associated Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pays_d%27en_Haut
So to correct it I should remove Canada, but would leave Nouvelle-France.
Thanks so very much for your participation in the spring Clean-a-thon! Every suggestion you cleared (over 700!) made our Tree that much better. The WikiTree community appreciates YOU!
Pip Sheppard WikiTree’s Appreciation Team
Have created the French version of Great Upheaval category, set to mirror, takes a bit of time for the program to implement, but once done people tagged with either language category will show up in both lists.
Meanwhile, taking a look at Category:Acadians, I noticed that it had among its parent categories Category:17th Century American Immigration. While many Acadians wound up in Louisiana, it somehow seems wrong to me to have Acadians under that category, since 17th century ... appears to deal with immigrants to what is now the USA only. What's the logic in this, do you know?
Danielle
There is already a sub-category of Acadians who wound up in Louisiana (Category:Acadian Immigrants to Louisiana). That one makes sense as sub of Category:Acadians.
Will let the people working on US immigration categories sort out anything else in their lines, there has been major reworking of migration categories last year, the dust hasn't settled yet. :-D And there do exist migration categories for us Frenchies already.
Please see https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/972804/looks-like-this-man-was-conflated-from-need-some-input-please as I don't know what is the best way to proceed on this, these are definitely 2 men, don't know the parentage on mine married to Marguerite Mirault
Danielle
Of possible interest to Acadian project: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pinel-65
This girl gets contracted in 1686 by the Compagnie de L'Acadie per my sources. Awaiting a reply from one source as to whether or not he has data on her departure for Acadie. Maybe you have other data on her.
Danielle
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Isabelle
re Pierre Boucher dit Desrosiers, Acadian project box would not belong on him. Isn't there a category for Grand-Pré, Acadie? That would be the appropriate handling of this to my mind, since he married there. He was not an Acadian at all from what I can tell.
Yes, Filles à marier are also all under project PPP. The Fille du roy in question, I forget which one she was, the only one I know of who went to Acadie. Both projects are managers on her.
Danielle
Just to let you know, ALL the Filles du roy are under PPP, by decision made about them quite some time ago. So no need to add reason for PPP on profiles.
Danielle
-Lauren
Ray
Next time you want to do a sex change operation on me, let me know in advance. :D
Took out the wrong category and added some contract data from this side of the equation on there.
Since he actually came here first, you might consider adding the category Portuguese immigrants to Canada, Nouvelle-France (if it exists), but it's no big deal. He didn't stay here.
Danielle