Cindy (Bourque) Cooper

I know of no update. The most venerated researcher in Acadian genealogy says he knows of no parents, not even of any documentation that might suggest who they were. Of course, things do show up from time to time and we would love to have any such information if you come across it! I presume you've checked his profile and read the background about the search for parents :)

Cindy

What are the chances it's Jean Boucier dit Lavigne from Quebec? https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Boursier-37

Good morning, Alain! Here is a link and you can drill down to any part of the world (just in case your interests go beyond Canada).

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:One_Place_Studies Cindy

Thank you !

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: Neuville does not work:

Thank you for your help !

Alain Bourque

HI, Alain, I see what you mean about clicking through on South Pool but not Neuville. I opened both of those study pages and could not tell what needs to be changed. I see that Ros Haywood is the manager of the South Pool page and she is responsive and helpful. What would you think about leaving a comment for her on that page and ask her to look at the Neuville page to see if she can add the link for you? Cindy

Hi,

This person, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Haywood-41

Yes. But you can leave a comment right on the South Pool space page. That way your question will be directly connected to the topic. She will get an email because she is the PM for that page. Cindy

Hi Cindy,

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

Fletcher, that picture is beautiful. When I clicked through and read your notes, the story is amazing.

Cindy

You are Welcome Armand. Please ask anytime.

HI, Jamie, if you want to shoot me over some names with dates, I'll see if I can find them!

Stick with it, WikiTree can be a bit confusing at first, but you might come to love it. I do. Cindy

We are cousins too, then, as I am related to most of the Acadian families. We are 7th cousins once removed, whatever that means! I'd be glad to help anytime. Cindy

Yes I do. Would you like me to look up someone?

yes, please. I'm looking for Charles Leblanc of Pisiquid, he was originally Grand pre, exiled in Oct 1755 with his wife, and sons Charles and Francois. They were sent to Philadelphia. A Foot note in a story I'm reading is Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes, 2: 983–1012

I'm guessing that's volume 2, pages 983 - 1012. Is this his genealogy?

Hi, Donna, that's a lot of pages to go through. Most likely any Charles I find won't be linked to the later info, as that book stops with marriages about 1710. Do you know his father? Is there a profile started with other information I might be able to use to find him?

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.

His ancestry , in 1817 Pennsylvania court records, is given as Charles Leblanc son of Charles Leblanc, son of Jean Leblanc, son of Andre Leblanc.

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.

Andre did have a son Jean. Jean had no children Charles and none that lived into the 1800's. This is true of the three professional genealogists we follow including Stephen White. I checked all the remaining Charles and none lived into the 1800's, and no Charles son of Charles.

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?

I have not found the court records on line. I came up with the same genealogy info you did, I was hoping he would be in White's genealogy as it was used and listed in the footnotes of the story. Charles White (Leblanc) lived on 4th and Spruce in Philly when he died in 1817, he never married or had children of his own, so he'd be the end of his line. Thanks for looking.

The way they listed White's source was the entire LeBlanc family from beginning to end of what was in the book. They should have had a specific page if it was a real source. I would say that Andre and Jean are not related to the Charles who was deported. And I doubt he had a father Charles either. At this point, parents are unknown and I'm not even sure that the Charles with the wife and two children was actually deported to Pennsylvania, unless he was the one with a wife and THREE children. That's the only pennsylvania entry for a Charles LeBlanc. Perhaps more records could be found in PA.

I will research the lawyer involved to see if his papers are available. It would be fun to read the depositions in the case. Thanks for helping.

Donna, thank you! She has a lot of interesting information. I decided to follow her and several other links she has. I had no idea LinkedIn had such information! Thank you for sending it. I think we will put a genealogy section on the Acadian sources page as I have other sites to add as well. Are you familiar with the Mothers of Acadia project? There are a couple of others as well.

Hi Jason, what help do you need? I'll do my best.

Cindy

No I do not have one. Do you think we might be related? Cindy

Hello Cindy,

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

i forgot : Landry and Leblanc too

With Landry familys, i found two branch very similar,

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...

Patrice, where did you find those Landry families - not on WikiTree? We have Perrine Bourg married to Rene Landry (she is Bourg-20). There is not a second Perrine Bourg know in Acadie, though many family trees have her assigned to different people at different times.

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

HI, Patrice, do you know how to use the Relationship Finder? Go to the upper right where you will see your ID. Click and get the dropdown. Select Relationship to me. Then put in the Profille ID you want to find out about. For me, you would enter Bourgue-573. It will find our common ancestor.

Hello 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

DNA links are way above my skill level. However, if you have a profile - maybe one of these abandoned children - perhaps someone on WikiTree with more expertise could help you find who is above them. If you want to take it further for help like that, try asking a question on G2G and be sure to tag it DNA.

You can help those of us using DNA by creating a GEDmatch.com kit for your DNA and posting the kit on your DNA information for your Wikitree profile. GEDmatch is a huge advantage to the DNA research. If you need help, please let me know.

Thank you Pip. I enjoyed it. Though every so often I wished for the Weekend Chat. I have found I really enjoy that too, and appreciate your work putting it together each weekend!

Yes, good Acadian names we share! Nice to meet you too, cousin! Thanks for reaching out.

Yes they are. I am Always Thrilled to find New Cousins. I'm so Glad You responded. Many people don't. We come from a long line of pretty Amazing People. Please Keep in Touch. Stay Safe and be Blessed, Cousin.

If you ever need help with any Acadians, please let me know.

Roy, thanks for your reply, both of those profiles look good! Not duplicates, nice sources, very well done.

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

Hi, Greg, please refer to the first sentence of your link that says "The Pays d'en Haut (French: [pɛ.i dɑ̃ o]; Upper Country) was a territory of New France covering the regions of North America located west of Montreal. The vast territory included most of the Great Lakes region," However, if as you mention, she was born closer to the Saint Lawrence river, that was also New France according to this wikipedia article: "Between 1634 and 1655, the Jesuits established a home and a settlement that was destroyed in 1643 during the time when the missions in New France along the Saint Lawrence River. They soon moved deeper into the colony’s territory in order to live with and convert the local Huron population." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesuit_Missions_amongst_the_Huron She was born in this timeframe. The map from Wikipedia is 100 years later

So to correct it I should remove Canada, but would leave Nouvelle-France.

Hi Danielle, I'm responding to your post on Cindy's behalf. The "17th Century American Immigration" category, as currently used, doesn't really seem appropriate for Acadian profiles. An explanatory note on the category page that says "Immigration to European colonies in North America during the 1600s" could be causing confusion. That makes it sound applicable to European immigration to ALL of North America, which would also apply to Quebec and Acadia. Perhaps that was the original intent for the category, but everything else in that category is only associated with current-day U.S. colonies. Unless the Acadians and/or Quebecois projects want to set up new categories just for their original European immigrants (which would include 1500s and 1600s), the note should be modified. Either way, it is wrong to include "Acadians" under the category.

thanks Joyce, thought it was odd, have removed it as parent category for Acadians,

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.

HI, Danielle, thanks for the info. I found an Andree in 1693 with no last name. Left details about spouse and a link on Pinel-65.