French Canadian Sources

French Canadian Sources
Author: Patricia Kenney Geyh
Publisher: Ancestry Publishing
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2002
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9781931279017

A six-year collaborative effort of members of the French Canadian/Acadian Genealogical Society, this book provides detailed explanations about the genealogical sources available to those seeking their French-Canadian ancestors.

French Language Lifelines for the Anglo Genealogist

French Language Lifelines for the Anglo Genealogist
Author: Sandra Goodwin
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-07-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781735193106

Are you a French-Canadian genealogist, but the language of your ancestors didn't quite make it down to you? Do you struggle with piecing together their lives when you miss important details hidden in the records? Or maybe you can't even find them in English language records because the names are so different. French Language Lifelines for the Anglo Genealogist is the help you've been waiting for. From the producer of Maple Stars and Stripes: Your French-Canadian Genealogy Podcast comes this guide to everything you'll need to be a successful French-Canadian genealogist. You'll find hints to dit names, French sounds, gender clues, French numbers and dates, and translating church records. It provides many quick-access charts so you can quickly find the information you need. You'll find lists of names and occupations. There's a guide to online search strategies to help you be successful with your online research. There's even sections on gleaning information from records written in Latin.Become a more efficient researcher with French Language Lifelines for the Anglo Genealogist.

Helene's World

Helene's World
Author: Susan McNelley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2013-06-17
Genre: Québec (Québec)
ISBN: 9780615738598

Hélène Desportes, born in 1620, was the first child of French parents to be born in Quebec and to survive. For nine years, she lived in Samuel de Champlain's Habitation. In 1629, the little settlement was captured by the English. Hélène, along with the majority of the other French settlers, was put on an English ship and taken to France. She returned to Quebec in 1634 and spent the remainder of her life in the little colony. She was married twice, had fifteen children, and seventy grandchildren. No portrait of Hélène exits. There are no memoirs, no diaries, nor any letters to guide the biographer. Nevertheless, there are public records and other primary sources from which we are able to piece together her life. This, then, is her remarkable story, set against the backdrop of France's efforts to establish a colony in the New World along the banks of the St. Lawrence River.

The Good Regiment

The Good Regiment
Author: Jack Verney
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 234
Release: 1991
Genre: Canada
ISBN: 0773508139

The story of the Carignan-Salières Regiment which Louis XIV sent to Canada in 1665 to secure the colony from Mohawk Iroquois attacks.