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French-Canadian, Acadian, Cajun & metis surnames sites & bibliography

Attached here is an updated listing of surname sites. I am going through Tanguay's listing of "dit" names & spelling variations he has listed in the back of vol.7 to better cross reference my list. Therefore, there are some names I have no sites listed because of that. It should be noted that Tanguay's list is only for the variations/dits up to about 1760. Dit names continued to be added after that time, and of course once the French started to migrate to the US the name spellings changed a lot.

I have also started to add book titles (guess I just don't have enough to keep me busy) so you will have even more references.

PLEASE NOTE: some of the books are available through Google books or www.archive.org. Also I have listed a few periodicals but that is not my goal to list all, as they are covered in PERSI (available through Heritage Quest).

For the purists: note that I have not put in accent marks (unless it was cut & paste) as I do not read French and can't write it. It just took up too much time to look up how to type in the accents each time. This is an ongoing project, so keep checking back. Again, please let me know of any additions or corrections I can make, thanks, Jim.

PS: at the rate I am going it will probably take me the rest of the year to enter the data. If there is a specific surname you want to know about let me know and I will enter what I have. Thanks.

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Permalink Reply by James P. LaLone on March 29, 2016 at 7:07am

Getting ready to upload a revision of the list and would like help. Some of the websites listed come from RootsWeb and the following notice is being circulated - http://www.geneabloggers.com/ancestry-com-rootsweb-data-loss-future... so again if the sites listed no lojnger work, PLEASE let me know, thank you.

Permalink Reply by James P. LaLone on August 6, 2016 at 3:31pm

Update of Surnames, part 1

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FC surnames 1.doc, 2.6 MB

Permalink Reply by James P. LaLone on August 6, 2016 at 3:33pm

Update of surnames, part 2

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FC surnames 2.doc, 3 MB

Permalink Reply by Jacqueline G. on August 18, 2016 at 11:58am

James,

Thank you so much for your generosity! The amount of work you have done here is phenomenal, and is a huge contribution to the French Canadian ancestry community. Many, many thanks!

French-Canadian, Acadian, Cajun & metis surnames sites & bibliography

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