The best part of Genealogy

What could I tell you that would interest you in starting your family tree? Some of you will say ,why should I? Or what's so important about names ,and dates? Or who cares? 
First of all as you know genealogy is another word meaning tracing your family back until you can go back no further. And who cares? Well maybe you don't care, maybe your parents don't care either but did you ever stop and think that maybe somewhere in the future your grandkids or great grandkids might want to know about who they are and where they came from? A person can make their family tree something exciting, something interesting, something that anybody would love to read.  As you know, I started my family tree back in 1976 and I cannot thank my son enough for encouraging me to do so. It has been a long journey, I hit some brick walls, I tumbled some of them down, I looked for days even years and WOW! found what I was looking for, and the feeling I get when I stumble upon a new piece of the puzzle is unbelievable. My idea of a family tree is not just they were born,married and died, my idea is what did they do?  What did they wear? Where did they live? Where can I find some little stories about them? The obituaries sometimes gives a lot of information so I look for the obits if I can find them. The 1861 census of Canada gives a lot of information, such as did they have a farm? What did they have on the farm, animals, crops, who was living with them at the time?  I also found with the help of  the historian Regis Brun  a bill that my great grandfather had made, he used to go to the city from the country once a month and buy his groceries . Can you imagine a can of lobster for fifteen cents? Wish I were there back then. grin. This was in 1873  or around  there.  I searched for 30 years for the death of my great grandfather before finally finding him, can you imagine how excited I was? And one day I went to the funeral home with someone and I asked if they could find my grandfather's death record and they did a lookup and I found out my grandfather had Lupus. Now that is another reason doing a family tree is good because sometimes medical issues comes up and we wonder if anyone else had the same thing. Yes family trees can be very benificial.  Where do you begin? Well I would say, get a pen and scribblers, or a tape recorder, start asking your parents a lot of questions, where they were born, who their parents were,what did their parents do for a living, places they lived, were the men ever in the armed forces, were there any heros or crooks in there somewhere? All these are facts and should be recorded. Now for example, my Mom married my Dad when she was barely 14, my grandfather was away, she was his oldest daughter ,his little princess and my father proposed to her, would you believe on a little bridge in the country and my Mom said yes and they first went to the city and eloped, and later they married catholic but my grandfather was away at the time,and when he returned and found out his daughter got married to a man older than her to begin with and who lived next door to them that one day or night he went over to my other grandparent's home and burned the house and barn while they were away.  Had my mother not told me the story I would never have known and the true was true because my grandfather went to court and I found the article in the newspaper. So I have this information written down in my book, for my descendants to read one day. I would phone Mom and she would start talking about long ago and my memory is not as good or even as close to being as good as Moms, so as soon as I would hang up the phone , out came my pen and paper and I would jot the information down. Today there are lots of  information online that can help you search ,just as long as you remember there are also lots of mistakes or errors online so if and when you find something, always, always verify it to see for yourself if it is correct. By reading this blog ,by now you must know that genealogy is in my blood, and it is something that will never go away. Right now I am searching for my English line from England who I recently found an item saying it is possible they were originally French Hugonots who fled to England. Hmmmmm interesting huh?  So when are you going to start doing your family tree?  
Changing the subject here are a few things I have created for Halloween ,you can find them in my Halloween folder at http://www.zazzle.com/allicor*

Genealogy & Zazzle

First I will talk genealogy and
will talk zazzle next.

Well I went to see my Mom the other day and  she has been saving obituaries from the newspaper for a long time and when I went over she was putting them all in an album. So I borrowed the album and I scanned all the pages of the allbum and I have created   a page on my Acadian-Roots dot com website. If you go there you will see an animated pencil on the sidebar click on it and it will take you to the obituaries. The following are the names of the persons .They are not in alphabetical order so you will have to look to find them on my website at http://www.acadian-roots.com/ .

Eloi Arsenault, Melina Arsenault, Marie Anne Belliveau, Maxime Breau, Arthur Gallant, Emile Gallant, Freeman Gould, Normand Hunt,Philippe LeBlanc, Patrick LeBlanc, Guy LeBlanc, Aline LeBlanc, Claude LeBlanc, Armand LeBlanc, Diane LeBlanc, Hazel Mae Leblanc, Therese Thibodeau, Theresa Bourgeois, Zephir Girouard, Irene Briggs, Marie L Caissie, Sara Caron, Paul Allain, Edmee Cassidy, Clayton Rideout, marjorie Allison Parley, Milledge Williams, Elizabeth J Williams, Emery Boudreau, Lucilda Bourque, Henry Bourque, Barbara Ann Babineau, Alcide Bourque, Kenneth Coster, Sylvia A Henderson, Romeo Leger, Freddy Gautreau, Mabel Arsenault, Sanford Maillet, Odila Brine, Sophie McLean, Eva Saulnier, Dora Pellerin, Justin R Williams, Raymond Leger, Gerard (Patat)Melanson, Rejean Martin, John Kerwin, Laurie LeBlanc, Kathryn Pyne Welner, Clara Beaton, Norman tower, John Williams, Tyler Williams, Laurie Leger, Bernice Cassidy, Romain Doucet, Yvon Cormier, Raymond Donelle, Edna Cormier, Philip Aubie, Lawrence Bernard, Clarence Melanson, Walter Baxter, Nelida Leblanc, Doris A Richard, Emile Desroches, Jack Bell, Louis Arsenault, Clarence (Buck)Arsenault, Samuel Gorber, Laurie J Leblanc, David Meahan, Edgar Bourque, Jean Baptiste Cormier, Ulysse Maillet, Alfred Caissie, Raymond Leblanc, Ronald King, Leo LeBlanc, Kristina Elliot, Andrea Vautour, Clifford Williams,Marie Collette, Thomas Chase, Yvonne Leblanc, Camille C Thebeau, Irene Ambrose, Irene McGinnity, Hilda Williams, Edward J Gallant, Emerise Girouard, Albert Girouard, Dora Girouard, Marie Girouard, Desire Girouard, Irene Saulnier, Lionel Maillet, Leo Donahue, Adelard Melanson, Jacques Bourque, William Hebert, Donald Richard, Bernice Myers, Dora Williams Melanson, Pauline Hebert, Dora Pellerin, Sister Genevieve Petitpas, Lucianne Roy, Edward LeBlanc, Lindsay MacCurdy, Lena Arsenault, Evangeline Chiasson, M.E.Girouard, Bernard Doucet, Kenneth Daigle, Mary Lilian Rossiter, Clarence Wedge, Yvonne Hache, Pierre Bourque, Germaine Trembley, Yvon Maillet,  Connie McCallum, James Vautour, Gisele Minhas, Garnet Mutch, David Briggs, Robert Murdock, Lionel Jos Williams, Edward Williams, Edmee Bourgeois, Alice Boucher, Roy Steeves, Doris Leblanc, Edward Lirette, S .Hansen, Lillian M Little, Edward (Eddie)Saulnier,Lloyd Lirette, Geneva Cormier, Gladys Belliveau, Yvon J Hache, Jeanne Munrow, Paul G Gallant, John Ramsay, Melas Hebert, Alfred Niles, Stella King, Dorilla (Maillet)Drisdelle, Arthur Martin, Richard Murray, Leo Hebert, Odile Hachey, Mrs Perley  Wesley Vye, Donnie Terrio, Leonard (Ted) Boucher, Laura Gosselin, Richard Russell, Rita Boucher, Jeanne Finck, Kenneth Gallagher and Edna Girouard.

Now we will talk Zazzle. Zazzle is where I created my gallery or my store. There are tons and tons of zazzle stores and lots of great artists among them. I would like to mention a new friend of mine from Melbourne Australia, her name is Rose and she has been promoting my store at http://www.zazzle.com/allicor    so in return I would like to promote her store, now she is very talented, and she has a blog and a newsletter which you can subscribe to, in her newsletter she talks about her store but she also helps advertise stores like mine and yours. Each time I make a sale I sent her the list of what I sold and she in turn posts it in her newsletter along with other zazzlers. Here is what she wrote for me to share with you:

Sketchart26 Fine Arts & Photos Newsletter Started on Monday 1st of March 2010. The news letter was influence through my personal belief that we should never just take and should always try to give back. So out of this belief I developed what I now call “Sketchart26 Fine Arts and Photos Zazzle Bog”. The blog was designed to not only display my work but also to display the work of all Zazzle store owners. Over the path of the development stage of the blog I began to realise the importance for all Zazzle store owners to have a place to share their experiences, sales, store, designs and any websites they may have set up to help advertise their store. I believe through sharing these experiences we give hope to all those just starting out and also at the same time we can learning from one another so that we may be able to grow as individuals as well. So the newsletter is sent out once a fortnight each Monday and incorporates anything blogged within the fortnight. It also allows those who subscribes access to a programme I have started called “Tools of The Trade” which is my own tutorials I am writing to help other’s learn what I have learned during my time at Zazzle in the hope to make other’s paths an easier path to take. So I would like to invite you all to sign up and start sending through all your wonderful news about your sales, stores, new designs and anything else that might be of importance to your stores. Customers are also welcome to sign up for the newsletter.

You can sign up through my website or my blog. See links below.
Cheers Sketchart26
http://sketchart26online.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=77&Itemid=84
http://sketchart26fineartsandphotoszazzleblo.blogspot.com/


I hope she will get a lot of new subscriptions. 
Now I hope you like my two products I added today, there is a story behind them. Today we went to the country and stopped in this Acadian Restaurant where they sold Poutine Rapees, they are the photos on the shirt, they may not look very tasty but they sure are, with a little bit of sugar is the way I like them, some use salt, some even use ketchup, So I bought a couple and brought them home and I said to myself, hmm this would make a great product for my gallery so I set them on a plate on my table , took out a few Acadian things and voila I have a product. I made tee shirts, french and english, I made invitations french and in english, I created a hat, even a necktie and  a bag, a mousepad and a postcard . You can find all of these in my Acadian Cajun Folder  and in my mouse and greeting card folders too. I do hope you will stop by.
So as Porky Pig used to say "da, dats  all  foolks."  grin.
Thanks for the visit ,do stop by again.
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