Welcome! If you have anything to share regarding your French-Canadian acestors, social customs, history, music, etc. please do!

I collect genealogies of all persons with the following surnames:
TREMBLAY / TROMBLEY, etc., LALON(D)E / LALANDE, MELOCHE, LeROY-AUDY, BOURASSA, MONTURE / MONTOUR and the LeCLAIR / LaCLARE family that eventually settled in Ellensburg / Plattsburg area of Clinton Co., NY.

Some of the other families I an descended from are: ADHEMAR, ALINOE-SANSCHAGRIN, AMIOT/AMYOT, ARCHAMBAULT, BAILLARGEON, BAU-LEBAU, BEAUCHAMP, BEAUVAIS, BENOIT, BLANCHET. BOLDUC, BOUCHER, CARON, CHARRON, DAUDIN / DODIN, DAVID, DeLAMARE/LAMARRE, DENEAU-SULLY, DENIAULT, DESCHAMPS, DRAPEAU, DUCHARME, DUCHESNE, DUMAIS / DUMAY, FAILLE / FAYE, FONTAINE, GAGNE / GASNIER, GAUDET, GIRARD, GRAVEL(LE), GUYON / GUION, HEBERT-JOLICOEUR & -LECOMPTE, HUBOU(X)-TOURVILLE, JOUSSET, LABERGE, LACOMBE, LEBER, LeHOUX, LEMAIN, (Le)TAVERNIER, MENARD, MOREAU, PAISE, PARADIS(E), PEPIN, PIPETTE, RACINE, RIVEST, ROSSIGNOL, SEGUIN, SENECAL, TERRIN and TOUCHETELLE to name a few.

My Quebec/Jersey island family: La Pierre, Le Moignan, Dupuis

It should be noted that in the SURNAME WEB SITES I do add to the "numerous" links at the end of that catagory, I keep running across them as I am updating the other links. I had originally posted these on the FRENCH-CANADIAN HERITAGE SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN's mailing list a year or so ago & I am finding that already many of them are no longer valid.

Welcome to all of the new members

I am interested in Wark families that came from Donegal and Londonderry to Quebec, starting in the early 1800's. I know some settled in the Montreal area.

Chery, these are obviously not French-Canadian. If they were Catholic then there are the church records you can look at. There are the Fabien, Rivest & Loiselle marriage indexes as well as the Drouin collection which is available on the Family Search (LDS) site. If they were not Catholic again check the Family Search site for the Protestant church records which were filmed. Some of the Protestant church records have also been published and are available at libraries with larger genealogy collections. If you can get titles you might try to order them on interlibrary loan. You might also want to post on the Canadian site here on Genealogy Wise. Good Luck.

Good day to all. Some of you may note that I have included some of the Facebook surname sites on the surname list. There are many more then I have posted, some I have skipped because they are one particular family, but the majority I have skipped because they had spam posted on them so not sure if the moderator even pays attention to their page. Having said that there are three pages that are general French-Canadian which may be of interest, two of which are specially geared for Michigan:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=109717099063919
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=49070801352
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=15424459491

Welcome Anthony, have you worked on the LaCLAIRs lately? I haven't for awhile but do have some obits to type in I think, have to dig the material out.

Anyone who tries to contact me via my gmail addy I am having trouble and cannot respond, I can recieve ok but cannot send or reply. I am hoping it will heal itself:)

ust joined genealogywise and this group.

Two comments about the links -1) good job and 2) the light green link color makes it quite hard for my old eyes to read.

Plan to contributr my research on my Achin Ancestors.

Some of my French-Canadian names include: FONTAINE, GAGNON, BIENVENU, FONTAINE DIT BIENVENU, CHARBONNEAU, MALTAIS/MALTESE, FORTIN, TREMBLAY, GARNIER, GUYON, GAUTHIER, ALLAIRE/DALLAIRE, BARBEAU, BEAUCHAMP, BELANGER, BENOIT, BERLOIN, BISSONNETTE, BOUCHER, BRUNET, CHARPENTIER, CHARTRAND, CHAUDILLON, CHAUSSE, CHAUVIN, DENOYON, DION, DESSUREAU, GUAY, HEBERT, HUBOULT, JOLY/JOLI/JOLIE, LABELLE, LE BLANC, LACROIX, LAHAIE, LAMOUREUX, LE FRANCOIS, MCNICOLL (Duncan McNicoll, who married into the GAGNON family)....

Basically, pretty much pick a name in Quebec.....

Welcome Robert, I did add your material (URL) you posted on the Canadian Group here. I did a genealogy on the ACHIN family ages ago for Michigan's Habitant Heritage (not descended from the family that I know of). I will have to dig it out & post it here.

Everyone - sorry it is taking so long to repost the surname list but I spent six hours on it (probably an average, try to do 5-6 pages a day), please be patient, will get through the alphabet eventually (then will probably have to start all over again. Please feel free to send me any additions/corrections so I can post them, Thanks, Jim.

For those of you who are into medical genealogy, I knew that Tay Sachs disease was from an Acadian line but did not know about this other:
http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2007/10/attention-fr...

A few more interesting sites for background info on researching F-C ancestry -
Timeline of Quebec history (in French):
http://page.infinit.net/histoire/

Origins of F-C ancestors:
http://home.gwi.net/~frenchgen/origins3.htm

Distribution of F-C descendants in US:
http://news.webshots.com/photo/1011663714015378899SCsOwbPrQe

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Just got my Oct. 2010 issue of "Michigan's Habitant Heritage" in and it has an interesting article "The Founder Effect in Quebec" by Susan Colby, et al (p. 182), dealing with various diseases or genetic disorders found amoung French-Canadians. Other articles of interest for those who do not have Michigan F-C ancestry are "Confirmations in the Parish of DonBour, 25 May 1669; Montreal, 1 May 1669", p. 223, Don Bourg is the Seigneurie de Dombourg (Neuville), and "Names Are Not Always What They Seem: from Parker to Paquin" by Patricia A. Brundirks, p. 178, not only deals with a name change, but also the records back in France concerning the PAQUIN family.