George Findlen, CG, CGL*
Wednesday, 11:00 a.m., W128–"Crossing the Border: How to Backtrack an Ancestor into Québec from the US".
Those who attempt to track French-Canadian immigrants from the US back into Quebec often stumble trying to cross the border. Two pieces of information are necessary: the names of the immigrant’s parents (including the mother’s maiden name) and the village of origin. That information is often included in a parish register marriage entry, an obituary, a civil death certificate, a naturalization petition, a marriage abstract in a surname-specific genealogical dictionary, or a county history. My talk will use an example of each to illustrate how to successfully cross the border. Once across, the standard resources of county-wide repertoires des mariages (books of marriage abstracts), Jetté’s all-Quebec genealogical dictionary, and the Drouin Collection of parish register images on Ancestry.com will enable researchers to quickly and easily backtrack an ancestor to the immigrant from France.
George Findlen is a retired college teacher and administrator who researches the blended Acadian / French-Canadian families of Eastern Quebec, the Canadian Maritime Provinces, and the New England states. His articles have appeared in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, and in genealogical society journals in several New England states, Louisiana, New Brunswick, and Quebec. He gives talks to genealogy groups in the Upper Midwest and leads skill-development workshops for the Wisconsin Historical Society Library and Archives.
Those who attempt to track French-Canadian immigrants from the US back into Quebec often stumble trying to cross the border. Two pieces of information are necessary: the names of the immigrant’s parents (including the mother’s maiden name) and the village of origin. That information is often included in a parish register marriage entry, an obituary, a civil death certificate, a naturalization petition, a marriage abstract in a surname-specific genealogical dictionary, or a county history. My talk will use an example of each to illustrate how to successfully cross the border. Once across, the standard resources of county-wide repertoires des mariages (books of marriage abstracts), Jetté’s all-Quebec genealogical dictionary, and the Drouin Collection of parish register images on Ancestry.com will enable researchers to quickly and easily backtrack an ancestor to the immigrant from France.
George Findlen is a retired college teacher and administrator who researches the blended Acadian / French-Canadian families of Eastern Quebec, the Canadian Maritime Provinces, and the New England states. His articles have appeared in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, and in genealogical society journals in several New England states, Louisiana, New Brunswick, and Quebec. He gives talks to genealogy groups in the Upper Midwest and leads skill-development workshops for the Wisconsin Historical Society Library and Archives.
*CG or Certified Genealogist is a service mark of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license by Board-certified genealogists after periodic competency evaluation, and the board name is registered in the US Patent & Trademark Office.
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