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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.

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Hi Everyone,I'm going through some family history papers that were given to me. I've attached the marriage entry for Francois de Sales Lefebvre and Marie Louise Hamelin. I don't know what this entry…Continue

Started by Michelle Gimelberg. Last reply by Michelle Gimelberg May 9.

French-Canadian, Acadian, Cajun & metis surnames sites & bibliography 15 Replies

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…Continue

Started by James P. LaLone. Last reply by James P. LaLone May 9.

Charles Lefebvre 1 Reply

I'm looking for the parents of Charles Lefebvre.He was born 13 Sep 1774. He married Josette/Josephte PAQUET. They had at least one son, Raphael LEFEBVRE. He was born 1814 in Quebec, Canada.Any help…Continue

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Jacques De La Bourliere dit LaPlante 3 Replies

I've been looking at this person too long and am in need of a fresh pair of eyes.What I know: Jacques De La Bourliere dit LaPlante AKA Jacques De La Bourliere AKA Jacques LaPlanteBorn: 27 Dec…Continue

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Comment by Pete Violette on November 13, 2012 at 7:58pm: Can anyone help with translating a video from french canadian to english?

Comment by James P. LaLone on October 19, 2012 at 10:40am: Interesting book: http://books.google.com/books?id=S-s2maBGnh0C&pg=PA212&lpg=...

Comment by James P. LaLone on October 19, 2012 at 10:12am: Interesting article: http://www.lambtonshield.com/voices-from-the-past-the-story-of-the-...

Comment by Brendy Martinez on October 7, 2012 at 6:44pm: I am searching my many great grandmother Magdelene Chevalier she was married to Amable Turpin , he was son of Joseph Dit Sandrille Turpin and Marie Angelique Makwa (Algonquin) from montreal and Slave lake,Quebec Canada

She resided in Minnesota. My aunt thinks she was daughter of a Francois Chevalier in minnesota who was married to a Whapeton sioux woman.

Comment by James P. LaLone on August 24, 2012 at 1:34pm: Land ownership was under thr seigniorial system in early New France. See the blog on http://frenchnorthamerica.blogspot.com/2012/08/land-tenure-seigneur... , see also the articles in Michigan's Habitant Heritage, vol.5 #2 (Apr 1984), pp. 25, 26 and 38, published by the French-Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan.

Comment by James P. LaLone on August 12, 2012 at 9:08am: Facebook has the following site -

Penetanguishene Genealogy & History Group

https://www.facebook.com/groups/95725364826/

Comment by James P. LaLone on July 31, 2012 at 12:06pm: Maine's F-C -

http://www.mainememory.net/sitebuilder/site/2122/page/3514/display?...

Comment by James P. LaLone on July 31, 2012 at 12:03pm: F-C blog -

http://dailyreturns.wordpress.com/

Comment by James P. LaLone on July 31, 2012 at 11:57am: Detroit's F-C settlers -

http://my.tbaytel.net/bmartin/cadillac.htm#a

Comment by Cecelia Redmond on June 12, 2012 at 9:10pm: Gervias Baudin went to French Canada but Nicholas his son went from France to Mobile where I am an my family has been since the late 1600s early 1700s. The land changed governments from French to Spanish to British to Spanish to USA. We have always claimed French as those who came here stayed here and many came directly from France here.

French Establish First Settlement

Represented on maps as early as 1507, the Gulf of Mexico inlet now known as Mobile Bay was navigated by European seafarers in 1519 when ships under the command of Spanish Admiral Alonso Alvaraz de Pineda sought a safe harbor in which to undertake repairs. The bay area was not really explored, however, until 1558. It was included in the vast region that was claimed for France's King Louis XIV and was named Louisiana by French explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle in 1682. France authorized two brothers, Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville and Jean Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, to explore territories in Louisiana, and they arrived at the gulf inlet that is now called Mobile Bay in 1699. The area was subsequently considered crucial to establishing French occupation of Louisiana and the brothers were ordered to colonize the region, which was inhabited by the Mobile, or Maubila, tribe. In 1702 Bienville established Fort Louis de la Mobile—named to honor France's king and to acknowledge the native tribe—at Twenty Seven Mile Bluff on the banks of the Mobile River, just north of present-day Mobile. It was the first French town in the gulf region.

The settlement, which consisted of the log fort, Creole houses, a church, a hospital, a marketplace with shops, and a well, served as the capital of the vast Louisiana Territory. Women joined the community in 1704. When river flooding forced the colony to abandon Fort Louis de la Mobile in 1711, the settlement's four hundred inhabitants moved downstream to a new site protected by a wooden fort at the river's mouth on Mobile Bay. During this era, pelts, furs, wax, and tallow were transported down river to where the bay meets the gulf for transfer to ocean-going vessels. This settlement retained the name Mobile and remained the capital of the Louisiana Territory until New Orleans assumed that title in 1720. That same year Mobile renamed its fort Fort Conde. A brick structure later replaced the original fort.

http://www.city-data.com/us-cities/The-South/Mobile-History.html