French-Canadian Descendants

All French-Canadians are related as they are descended from about 2.500 people. They also have some of the best kept records in the world. Please feel free to post queries, events, pictures, tell stories, etc.

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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