What can one find in a second hand shop or store? Well I must tell you, that sometimes you can find things that you do not expect. A few days ago, I went in to a second hand store with my friend. First I want to share this with you and I will get back to my story. My niece is always so well dressed, she is tall and looks attractive. She lives in Ontario, one time while I was visiting her, we went out shopping and she took me to a place called Value Village, well all I saw was racks of clothes, all kinds, I watched my niece, and she would say oh this one is a designer label, this is an expensive line of clothing. Well I did not know one from another, I used to shop at KMart once, grin. Anyway she picked me up an all weather coat ,label was London Fog. It looked so nice, she then told me she went to work, she worked in an office and the girls would all say to her, where do you get the nice clothes? She replied at VVs, where is that? they asked. Value Village she answered. But as I said she knew what to shop for. Now getting back to my story, I went in there a few days ago, and saw a book corner, well I went there and began looking, I found a book called Acadian Silhouettes, bought it. Well inside it has biographies of Acadian Women. You must have heard of La Saguine? she is a character in a play about an Acadian Scrubwomen, she is played by an actress called Viola Leger. I was amazed at her biography, she was born in the USA, her parents were from New Brunswick, she was also a teacher. When I think of her I think of La Saguine. In the book also is the biography of the writer of La Saguine Antonin Maillet. She has written many books and she was born in Bouctouche New Brunswick. So if you do not go to second hand stores, drop in once in a while, check out their books. I will be doing so from now on, The book I bought is in perfect condition. And it has photos of the ladies in the book. You can be sure I will check out the books from now on.
I am still working on my St Charles Amherst Cemetery index, I am moving along quite well, I am on my last page . I also have another senior to add in my senior page when I can. I also want to thank everyone who is encouraging me to go on with my blogs, I did not know so many of you were reading them. This makes me feel good , to know I am giving you something to read that you enjoy. For the ones of you who told me they cannot answer these blogs, I think if you go to the bottom of the blog you will see comment, you click it and a window opens, you type in the window and click send or Ok, I forget what it says. Anyway thanks for the lovely visit, have a great day, hello to my friends Jean and Harry in Scotland, and to my cousin Eve and Cindy, I see all of you. grin.
Have a great day everyone reading this blog,
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Do you believe it? Well this photo was taken this week in Saint Leonard New Brunswick near the Van Buren border. Bobcats, and it is the first time I see so many of them at one time. There was one who came into our neighborhood, and someone snapped his photo, I thought Wow , right in the city, but it looks as if the bobcats are having a hard time this winter. They are probably coming out looking for some food. My friend Effie sent me the photos to share with you.I don't think I would like to come face to face with them. grin. As you can see there is alots of snow, so the deer and other animals must have had a hard winter.

Now changing the subject, I am still adding names to the Saint Charles Cemetery page on my website at http://www.acadian-roots.com/ , You can view the images at Rick's site at http://www.myacadianhistory.ca . As I told you, he has given me permission to add the index on my site , which has a link to his site. I have done quite a bit so far. I am also not adding names to my Chartersville Road Cemetery (Our lady of Calvary) in Dieppe NB. I also have been translation my P'Tit Francois articles from french to english, but I think it is more interesting to read the french version since he tells his stories in Chiac or old Acadian words.

Our genealogy group is doing very well , we are helping others as much as we can with their research. It is unbelievable what team work will do. So if you are just surfing in from the net, and if you want to join our group,go to my acadian-roots.com website, click on Acadian Roots group. But if you decide on joining us, please know in advance, we are one big family, and sometimes the subject is not strickly genealogy, we do mostly genealogy but we sometimes get off the subject but you can be sure we jump right back on it. I do hope you will come and see for yourself. Thank you so much for stopping by, I do hope you will come again.

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Do you remember? Our grandparents and great grandparents sure had it rough compared to us . The barrel on the photo was probably to catch rain water. The rain water would have been used to bathe and to do the laundry and household cleaning. I remember when I had my camp in Saint Louis de Kent, and it was fun , we were roughing it, we were two couples, my sister and brother in law and my Gerry and me. We all stayed in the same camp at first, my brother in law made four bunk beds ,we had an old fridge and we had no TV. Anyway I remember my sister in law and I decided to make a garden, well we dug the earth and planted our garden and we needed water , so we went and got some plastic barrels and put them at the corners of our camp where the water would run down, and then we had pails we would fill and take to the garden. Would you believe that this was hard work? Anyway our garden was the most beautiful garden, we would go water the garden early in the morning , late at night, but the mosquitos were unbelievable, and the garden was ready to pick and the night before , we looked at our peas, what beautiful peas, the next morning all excited we were going to pick the garden, got there and there was not one single pea left, the crows ate them all. sigh.

Now the washer on the picture , I never ever seen one of those but I remember Mom had a wringer washer and she would wash her clothes pass them through the wringer and they woul d drop in this big galvanized tub to rinse them. And I remember she had a scrub board, so did my mother in law, Mom said she used that board for many years. If our ancestors could open their eyes today and see all the different changes compared to their times, they would be amazed.

Now I would like to change the subject, I have not blogged in a few days, I am working on another cemetery, Rick has given me permission to add one of his cemeteries on my website ,the Saint Charles Cemetery in Amherst Nova Scotia . Rick has the images on his site at www.myfamilyhistory.com and I am adding the names on the stones, it is a big cemetery so it will take me awhile to add all of them, but they are all in alphabetical order on his site so I have finished the A to C page and am beginning the next ones. Rick also has other cemeteries of Nova Scotia on his site, he doesn't only have the catholic cemeteries so if you are looking for someone around Amherst Nova Scotia please check his website and he has lots more stuff on his site. I was very impressed when I seen it. To find the cemetery on my site I will add it on my sidebar for a while then will add it to my other cemetery pages later, I think I will also move my Chartersville Our Lady of Rosary cemetery to our New Brunswick Cemetery pages soon also. I am still adding names in that cemetery.

If any of you read this blog and just surfed in, we have a nice genealogy group where we help one another ,if you are interested check the sidebar on my site at www.acadian-roots.com and follow the instructions to join us. If you have any french, acadian, cajun, french canadian,ancestors and you either need to find them or want to share them please join us. We are close to 400 members . I had it set so anyone could join , now I have it set that you have to have an invite because of all the spamming going on now days, it is a shame that this happens, so now our group is by invite only, I hope you will come and check us out.

Thanks for the visit, please come again. Have a nice day

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Well I awoke this morning with all these things running through my head, I have to do this and I have to do that, so every morning I begin by making a pot of tea and some instant coffee for me. So I boiled my water, and prepared the coffee in a cup, at the same time I am thinking of what I am going to do today for my group and for my blog, so the water is boiling, so I hurry to pour my water into my coffee, next I go to the fridge for the milk, take out the carton and start pouring, OH NO! this is not milk, it is Orange Juice. So I had a cuppa coffee double milk, double sugar and part orange juice. grin.
Now I have things to share today, first of all I have added some marriages from the Rogersville New Brunswick parish records,there are quite a few ,but not complete, if you go to www.acadian-roots.com click on Acadian Marriages you will see Rogersville. I hope it will help you.
And I have added a lot more photos in my photo gallery on the same website, one of my members Barbe had a lot of photos that she is sharing, many are unknown, some are from the Shediac Area, Moncton Area, Richiboucto Area and maybe PEI, so if you have time check them out to see if you can identify any. They are somehow connected to the Blanch,Boleyn families either friends or relative.
I have received many emails saying that they enjoyed my What is a Cajun page, I am pleased .
For the ones who do not know, I also have lots of Cemeteries on my website, some I did myself others I had permission to add.I have some from PEI, some from Nova Scotia and many from New Brunswick .
I was going to add a note regarding our Bergeron Reunion next year but I will save it for another blog because there has been some new developments.
So until then , have a great day, and remember " make sure you do not take a carton of orange juice instead of milk. grin.
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Cajun Blood, have you ever heard that song by Jo-El Sonnier, I find it so touching ,I wanted to find a spot on my website to add it, so what more fitting than a cajun page. With the help of my friends and permission from others, I have created a page called "What is a Cajun". I am very proud of the page and I let a cajun have the first look,he approved and that is good enough for me. So if you want to read some very touching and down to earth stories ,go to www.acadian-roots.com click on Acadian/Cajun and go to what is a cajun at the bottom of the drop down menu.
On another note, I would just like to say that from this moment on, my acadianroots group will be accessed by invite only. I had to do this because of all the spamming that is happening out there, I have a great group, and want to keep it that way so I am securing our site, if any ones wants an invite there are guidelines ,if interesed go to my website and click on acadian group, read the info there . I feel bad that I have to resort to this, but the safety of my group is important. This was a hard decision to make but in my heart I feel I am doing the right thing. If you are sincere about genealogy, if you really want us to help you or if you sincerely want to help us help others then by all means come join us. Our group are not always totally talking genealogy , we are also friends and friends are there for each other. We are one big family......with a goal, to knock down our brick walls first and foremost and help others with their genealogy when we can.
Well we are expecting rain today, I am glad because a lot of snow will dissappear, it will be so nice to see the grass again, and the warm weather, (probably then I will complain that it is too hot ,grin). Thanks for the visit, as always I am glad you came, it gives me reason to keep my blogs going.
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Spring is in the air, because when you take a drive and see the deer in the fields, then you can be sure it won't be long before it arrives. This photo was taken near Sussex in New Brunswick Canada. I received more photos than this one, with more deer. I remember my late husband and I used to go for a ride on Good Fridays, and we would go up the Cole Islands Road going towards Fredericton, well the first time I saw so many deer I couldn't believe my eyes, one time we counted over fifty in one field. Unbelieveable .The first time I saw them, they were a ways out in the field, I said to my Gerry, look at all the cows haha. He replied Aline those are deer. I said wild ones? He said yep. Then I was anxious to go see them again and again. I imagine the deer had a hard time this winter with all the snow we had, they were easy prey for the coyotes .

On another note, I would like to let you know ,I have and am adding some photos on my ancestor photo gallery at www.acadian-roots.com .One of my genealogy group members is sharing them with me for all of you to see , and if you recognize any of the photos and can identify who we cannot then please contact me? I am adding some in Barb's Album and the unknown album, for instance she has a Lucie a beautiful lady from Moncton New Brunswick, that is all we know, so she is in our unknown album. She has photos from Kent County and Westmorland county among her photos ,so check out the album often just in case.

I have added some marriages and deaths from the Cap Pele parish records on my acadian-roots.com website. Go to parish records, and to the drop down menu, Cocagne is also new.

I am working on some more additions and will keep you posted as they are done. Cap Pele and Cocagne are in New Brunswick in Canada, many of you may have some ancestors from these areas. I am still looking little stories on Acadians,Cajuns, or French Canadians who lived to be old and has a story to tell. I would love stories about people over 95. If you have some and photos and obits to share please let me know.

Thank you for dropping by to visit me, I alway enjoy your company.

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Can you guess what this is? Well I will tell you a little story,back around 1953 or so my baby brother was just a toddler, and at that time we had a milkman who used to deliver around six bottles a milk at a time and leave them on our front step. The milk bottles back then were made of glass with yes you guessed it a cover just like the one you see here. And the milk back then was pasterized milk, and when the bottles were on the steps, the cream would all be on the top of the bottles, well my little baby brother would go out on the front steps, lift the cover and drink the cream, only the cream. No wonder he was so cute and chubby. grin.

Changing the story, yesterday I picked up my copy of the french paper l"etoile, there were two interesting stories, one of them I entered in my seniors over 95 years page on Acadian Roots, it is about a couple celebrating their 70th wedding anniversary, he is 99 she is 89, just find HEBERT and read all about it, it is an amazing story, the one who did the interview was a Paul Emile Cormier, the interview was very well done in french so I translated it to the best of my ability.The couple are Edgar and Emilienne.

Also there was an article on the unveiling of the coats of arm, Remember I told you the Leger family had a new coat of arms? Well the unveiling was delayed until the 29th of February in order so that Mrs Claire Boudrot could attend. Nine families now have their coat of arms displayed at the University of Moncton CEA center. They are the Babin, Babineau, Boudreau, Bourgeois, LeBlanc, Leger,Mallet,Robichaud and Savoie. The ceremony was organized by Isabelle Cormier CEA's new director. Many people attended.It began with the anthem Ave Marie Stella,then Mrs Thelma Richard president of the FAFA welcomed everyone.To end the ceremony the choir of Neil Michaud sang two other songs. A lunch was served while people filed by looking at the coat of arms. The public is welcome to view these coat of arms at the CEA.There were two photos along with the article, one was Stephen White, Claire Boudreau, Thelma Richar, Donald Boudreau, and Leo Paul Leger. The other photo was Stephen White (genealogist), Claire Boudreau, Isabelle Cormier, and Leo Paul Leger.

When I see something Acadian, or anything else that relates to me or my research or my interests, I enjoy reading it.

My acadianroots group in yahoo is doing well, we have a very nice group, willing to help others when they can, so if you come into my blog from the web, and you do not know how to get to our group, go to http://www.acadian-roots.com/ on the sidebar you will see our group. If you have brick walls you want us to try and help you with, or if you would like to help others also please join us.

thank you for the lovely visit, please do drop in again, have a great day

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Cocagne is a little village in Kent County New Brunswick,I have some ancestors who were originally from there. My Williams dit Bristol ancestor Mathurin Guillaume Bristol apparently came from Bristol England as a young lad, maybe a cabin boy, for reasons unknown the story or legend is that he jumped ship in Cocagne ,hid in a hayloft and was found by Joseph Goguen one of the founders of Cocagne. Joseph is said to have adopted Mathurin ,and gave him the names Mathurin (named after the missionary) Guillaume (because the little boy said his name was William or Williams) and Bristol(because that is where he said he was from). As you know Joseph Goguen married a few times, he settled in Memramcook for a while, that is where Mathurin spent his life, Mathurin lived in a place called Taylor Village. He died in Memramcook in 1829. His grandson Augustin Bristol is my ancestor who settled in Cocagne. Cocagne is a nice little place to visit in the summertime. It is not the oldest Acadian Village in New Brunswick tho. Memramcook was the first. Why is my blog about Cocagne? Well the reason is also to let you know I have added some early marriages of Cocagne on my website, and I have added just a few births especially Cormiers, Breau, and of course Bristols and Williams. I have a few deaths but not many. So if you have ancestors from the Cocagne area, go to my website www.acadian-roots.com click on New Brunswick Parish Records, check out Cocagne. I do hope even one of the names I have added will benefit someone.
Just a little note here, I just would like to say that genealogy is something that is so very important, if you read history books, you will know that someone had to research the information, and they must have done a lot of searching to find their information. Genealogy should be a labor of love, and we do our genealogy or family trees in order to leave something behind for others when we go. Even if you are an aunt or an uncle, and even if you have no children of your own, do it for your nieces and nephews, leave a part of yourself behind for others. Sometimes you may feel like saying I give up, because you cannot seem to get further with your research. Do not give up, something will turn up sooner or later. As I said on another blog or in my group, it took me around 25 years before I came across my great grandfather's death, I was given the wrong years by a relative. And yesterday I was looking though some records on line and lo and behold I found the death of my great great grandmother who was not registered in the parish records, she died of paralasis in Saint Paul, what a great find and I though she died in 1892 she died in 1890. SEE ? And I have been at this since 1976. Now if ONLY I could find the death of Abraham Chate dit Chase , I would be so happy. So to you I say, go and dig ,dig ,dig, you just may uncover some treasures much better than gold.
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Acadians at Pointe Ste Anne (today Fredericton) did you know that this acadian village is now the capital of New Brunswick in Canada? There was a great tragedy that happened there, the english raided the village, killed many acadians, burned their houses down,now I am not saying this to talk against all the english since there were orders that were given. Anyway some acadians were murdured and even scalped. Now the the church is not there anymore, but the cemetery is, and for some time it was said that the cemetery had indians or native americans buried there and that that cemetery was an indian burial ground. Until they found some skeletons. Here is an exhert from Fidele Terriault's book.
The testimony of James Neville sheds an interesting light on the excavations of Wintemberg in 1933. It was at the suggestion of Neville that the York and Sunbury Historical Society asked for the services of Wintemberg to carry out the excavations of the cemetery of Point Saint Anne. Let him himself describe the context of these excavations in 1933:

“Dr Wintemberg came here with the idea of finding the bodies of prehistorics [sic] Indians and he instead discovered that closely buried together, in one case, two bodies in one grave were bodies supposed not to be Indians but Europeans. In all seven skeletons examined were evidence of their being killed in battle. In one case the skeleton had a bullet hole in the head and the right side of the head was also crushed in. In another there were two bullets in the grave. All these skeletons which I saw taken up were buried three feet only below the surface. Local authorities including Rev. Dr. F. A. Wightman, Mr. R. P. Gorham, and others (said) these bodies were buried in 1789 (sic 1759) during their fight with Hazen Rangers, and in the winter burial after the battle, they claim is the reason why they are only three feet down. There was no evidence of any coffin, nor of any religious emblem buried with them. Neither is there any evidence of Indian according to Dr. Wintemberg who is an expert in these things.”[1]

Thus there is no doubt that the cemetery dated to the first part of the 18th century and that it is really a matter of the village of Point Saint Anne.
[1] Centre d’études acadiennes, notes de james Neville, 10.2.7.
Now some of us had ancestors there, I had Bergerons, Godins, among mine. It is hard to imagine the hardships and the sadness my ancestors went through, running as fast as they could through the woods not even knowing which way to go, some running with their little babies and little children, afraid for their lives, did any of my Bergerons die among the casualties? There were Roys, there were Pare families, and others. I am anxious to go to Fredericton in 2009, I may even get there before. I do hope that they declare the site of the old Acadian Church and Cemetery a historic site, I think the Acadians need this.
Well changing the subject, I added a little story about a generous Bourgeois in my glimpse of the past pages. I am also on another project, which I will let you know when I am done, I am working on it now, it should help some of you in your genealogy.
Have a great day thanks for the visit.
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Spring will soon be here, today is March the eight already. It would be my father's birthday, he would be 98 if he were still here. He always celebrated his birthday on the ninth until I began my genealogy and found his birth record. My Dad was a man with a nice personality, everyone who met him liked him. He loved the Bingo, and when I used to go and meet him there, we would go ten percent if we won, meaning if I won I had to give him ten percent of my winnings, and he would do the same. Well when I won, and gave him his share, he would laugh and smile and be all excited, BUT when HE won and had to give me my share it was a different story, no laughing ,no smile grin. One time he was driving down our main street, and he was stopped by a police man, the police man said didn't you see that stop sigh? Dad replied WHAT stop sign? The policeman took his license away at that very spot haha. He never got it back but he was in his late eighties or early nineties.
On another note, I have added something new on my website at www.acadian-roots.co if you go there, go down to glimpse of the past , click and you will see I have added a little article I found from a newspaper about the hermit of Terrebonne, I have another article to add soon also. While you are there check out the crimes and punishment page if you haven't already.
I have also added this week's Petit Francois and this time I have translated it to English, it is not exactly word for word since some are hard to translate but it gives you an idea about the stories. I do hope you will enjoy them.
So again , thanks for the nice visit, Please do come again, and you can always add comments to my blogs, just click comment and say hello.
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Hello everyone, well good news, we found my nephew ,well I did not find him ,someone saw one of his messages, so he replied to my email and he is fine. That is one thing less to worry about. I told his parents, sent them his email address. I would like to thank everyone for their suggestions, and for also searching . So now Case Closed.
Today we went to the spring, and got some water. The weather was very cooperative, mild, melting so a very nice day. There is usually always someone ahead of us at the spring, today there were two cars. The spring is at the bottom of a mountain, so the water has lots of rocks to filter it before it gets to the bottom.
Speaking of water ,it reminded me of a note I received from a friend.It was about a lady who was on a boat, and she took sick and died. When they investigated they found it was due to a can of soda or pop. Apparently she drank from the can itself and it had rat droppings on the can and the can was not washed. It makes sense because the cans of food and pop are stored in warehouses, and rats and mice usually invade these places and they are all over the cans. So the advice on the message I got, was alway, always wash off the tops of the cans before opening. Now that I heard about this, I will only drink from a straw. We never know what we are eating or drinking, it is a scary situation and something to think about.
On this note I will say , thank you for the visit, always glad to see you. Have a great day. Aline

Good morning . It is going to be a lovely day, the temperature is suppose to be plus eight later today. I am looking towards my front window and I see the trees swaying to and fro, our snow has gone down since our storm, it was mild yesterday so lots of it melted. It sure must have been a hard winter for the deer and small animals in the woods this past winter.

Well I have added more stories in my crimes and punishment page on my website.If you go to http://www.acadian-roots.com/ click on glimpse of the past ,then to crimes n punishments, go to the bottom. One of the stories I read in a newspaper article, before I found that a movie and a series was based on the murder. The other story is about a lynching, these were back in the late 1800s, but interesting to know what went on. I also have another little story I am working on, that I will let you know when it is completed. Later when the weather gets nicer, I will see about adding more genealogy related stuff.

When I went to PEI on my last visit, friends of mine had tons of books, not genealogy related but there was one book that caught my eye, because it had old rain barrels in it and an old horse and buggy, but the photo that caught my eye was the photo of the doll that you see. She is an Eaton Beauty doll, and my mother had one just like her when she was a little girl, she told me her father was away a lot he was a saw filer and worked in lumber camps all over the place , but Mom said he never missed one christmas with them and he always brought Mom home a doll for christmas and she remembers him bringing her home an Eaton Beauty doll, so this doll must have been very special to MOM. So I am going to add this photo in my family tree book.

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day.

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It's a blue blue day, or should I say it's a white white day. grin. Yes everyone, it is snowing again,I am beginning to think like the guy in the diary of a snowshoveller. If you haven't read it, just type in diary of a snowshoveller in google, and read it, I laughed everytime I read it or tried to read it to others, but NOW I am getting to feel just like him. haha.
Well I thought we had found my missing nephew yesterday. Remember I told you my newphew Alderic DeBristole was missing? Last contact with him was in February 2007. Anyway I have posted on lots of forums, yesterday I received a reply, they had found a A DeBristole living in Montreal, I quickly jotted down the phone number and called my brother, but it turned out ,that that was Alderic's old address and phone number. So back to searching. I cannot believe that Alderic is not somewhere online even? He did have a computer and used to be online. I am waiting to see if I will hear from his mother in law in Las Paz or Las Pas Mexico.
I have added more names in my Chartersville Cemetery on my webpage at www.acadian-roots.com that is some huge cemetery. Never realized there were so many buried there.
We have new members just joined our genealogy group, I am pleased to have them with us.
It would be nice if we had one HUGE genealogy group for Acadians,Cajun,and French Canadian. Who knows maybe our group will keep on growing and we will get there.
Thanks for the visit, and do come again
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Hello everyone, today it is bitterly cold,and more snow expected .As I was looking for old photos for my latest project which I will tell you about a bit later in this blog, I came across our winter of 1992, so I am going to share this photo, taken after the storm, must have been sometimes in February,since a friend of my late husband sculptured the heart, but we did have so much snow back then, my late husband is the little man on the right side. He is the one who had Alzheimers I told you about earlier. I really hope we do not have another storm like that one.Although if I was young again, I could make a tunnel or a fort and have a snowball fight. smile.

Now to change the subject, I can now tell you what I have added on my website. I have added pages about our Acadian,Cajun, French Canadian ancestors over the age of 95. I am still willing to add more if you have some to share with me,such as newpaper articles, photos, if they are still living or passed away,their obits etc. I am proud of my pages. Since I began searching I was amazed at how many lived to be so old, so I do hope you will drop in and read their stories or obits, you can also reach me if you have some stories you want to share, go to www.acadian-roots.com click on Amazing Seniors and enjoy. I want to thank some of my members who have shared their stories and love ones with me, Effie,Maria,Maureen,Jackie,Melina,Michele,Paul L and Paul N (hope I haven't missed anyone).If some of you can add more to what I have already added please let me know.

Thanks for the visit ,do come again

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Good morning, or good afternoon depending on where you live. Well yesterday I finally decided to write to my missing nephew's mother in law in Mexico. I went to Bablefish and translated my letter from english to spanish, and I added a self stamped envelope along with paper in my letter and posted it. I sure hope we get results. It really is not like my nephew not to contact either one of his parents or his sisters. I wrote to the Nestles Company in Edmondton Alberta where Alderic said he was going to see for work at one point. No reply so far, the Edmonton police said we would have to file a missing person where we live but they told us, unless Alderic registers or is caught for something they cannot do anything. I wrote to the Salvation Army in Toronto, no reply. Now Alderic and Argentina has a son, that son has to be registered in a school somewhere,but where? And the surname De Bristole is not a name that is plentiful. So we are sure that Alderic was in San Diago in February 2007 ,working for a church to make money to head out to western Canada. When he sent an email to his father he mentioned Edmonton, and Richmond BC. Did he get there? or Did he go back to LaPas Mexico? Or are they in Montreal somewhere? They did live in Montreal at one time. If anyone reading my blog sees the name Alderic De Bristole, Amedee De Bristole or Argentina De Bristole anywhere in your part of the country, please reply to this blog? If you need a photo, there is a photo on one of my past blogs.
I haven't added any names to my Chartersville Cemetery lately, but I will be soon. I am working on my new pages which I do hope you will like. I found the music I wanted to use . The pages are up but not complete, when they are I shall let you know. This morning I received an email from one of my group members with a url to a gospel song by Dolly Parton, instead of adding it in my group I am going to add it here so if you like gospel songs this is pretty. http://gospelman.info/christian/HelloGOD.html
And to you newcomers reading my blog, if you are into genealogy and have Acadian/Cajun/French Canadian Ancestors and want to join our group, we are around 400 members and growing ,and we are like one family, so if you like genealogy and chat go to my website www.acadian-roots.com click on acadianrootsgroup on the sidebar and join us, it is free, and friendly. Or you can browse through my website, you never know what you will find.
Thank you for stopping by, hello Eve,Effie,Maria,Harry,Paul,Sara,Alice, I see you. grin. Have a great day everyone
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Do you have your cuppa tea,coffee or hot chocolate ready? I have my cuppa coffee, it is not Tim Horton's but instant coffee today. Later on we will go for a drive to Tim Horton's Coffee shop. It is an addiction I tell ya, an addiction. grin. Now we have Thunder hooked too, we just get to the drive through and he is front and center waiting for his timbit. Speaking of Thunder, I ,me, moi have started something called "spoiling" grin. When we go to the store I started buying him a treat, some rawhide chews or ears or soft chews, now as soon as I get back in the car with a bag, yep , he is right there saying"ok what did you get me today". grin.
Tomorrow the weatherman is calling for another snow storm, will it ever stop? I want the green grass, I want the trees to bloom, I want to be able to go out without shovelling or without freezing. Do you feel the same? If you don't then that is because you are the lucky one in the nice warm parts of the country. I want to go too. smile.
Well I am still working on my latest project for my website, it is coming along just fine. Our genealogy projects in our acadianroots group are doing good also. The members there are like one big family,helping one another. For the ones of you who have never been in a genealogy group, it is a good place to make new friends and also to sometimes connect with distant cousins.If you are interested in joining us you can do so on my website www.acadian-roots.com click on the url in the sidebar and join. I would love to see more folks from the maritime provinces, Quebec, PEI, more from the USA all who have either Acadian or French Canadian Roots We are now 400 members and growing.
Aww my cup is empty, so thank you for the visit, see it gave you a little break, so until next time.
Have a great day,
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Hello everyone, today I would like to share something with you. A good friend of my late husband passed away suddenly. So last night we went to pay our respects, and I have never seen so many people paying their respects, the room was full and as we left they were lined up right up to the door waiting to go in.
This morning was the service so my son and my friend went to the service, the church was so packed that the ushers were seating the people moving others to make room, he had a nice service, his son gave the eulogy and it was so nice.
After that , they had a lunch in a senior hall, and there it was the same thing, we had to line up in order to get in and no place to sit ,I saw so many old friends today, and my son met a lot of his friends, many had not seen us for years and years. One of our friends talked to my son about his Dad when they were young, it made my son laugh. Another friend of mine has alzheimers, (her husband was our best man). Anyway I thought that she would not know me, so I said hi to her with a big smile, she answered right away, Aline ,I was just thinking about you this week. It made me feel good ,to know she knew me today, but her son told me, he went to see her at the hospital where she is staying at the moment and she introduced him to the staff as her brother. That is very sad.
The deceased was a great friend of my late husband, and when my husband could not feed himself, nor talk,(he had Alzheimers too) his friend (the deceased) came over nearly everyday, and he would sit with my husband, he brought him oysters ,my husband loved them and he would open them and feed my husband. My husband always said to me, he is just like a brother to me. I feel good that my son and I went to his funeral, my late husband would have wanted us to go.
I met two ladies that I went to school with, some of my cousins were there also.
And I was so proud to have my son with me today,and my friend did not know many ,but it so happened some of his cousins are related to the widow and they were there.
So today I am not talking genealogy in this blog, but even if I don't , it doesn't mean a thing, I did more researching a few minutes ago, I got the bug, the genealogy bug, and it is catching, grin.
Have a great day, thank you for listening, do come again.
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Notice the color of my text? grin. It is because I went to Prince Edward Island and their soil is a reddish color. Yes I went to Summerside last Saturday with my friends. The roads had lots of frost heaves, but the weather was good on our trip over. As we crossed the Confederation Bridge, we talked about the times when we crossed to PEI on the ferries. I really enjoyed those trips over, I would look out in the waters and hope to see some fish, or seals in the water, I never did. Then we talked about before the bridge and before the ferries, how did our ancestors cross over in the winter times? Well I was told that they used to cross on the ice with a horse and sled, they would have a certain place that they would usually take to cross, like a man made road. In the summertimes they probably crossed over by boats.
Arriving at Borden guess where we headed for? The first Tim Horton coffee shop. smile. Then we went into Summerside, and I was hoping to go check out the Summerside genealogy center at the Wyatts Museum, it turned out that my friend lives about two blocks away. So she came with me. I was impressed as we entered the archives, stairs leading up were all wood and antique photos on the wall.
Entering the archives a man was leaving and another lady named Jeanne greeted us. The gentleman was into genealogy and we struck up a conversation for a bit.
And we continued into the room. I did not have anything special that I wanted to do this time except find a Gallant family for one of my members. So with the guidance of Jeanne , I think I found the right family, they were in lot 14 before going to Summerside. My friend was looking for a Leger family who were on PEI according to her mother. Lo and behold she found the obituary of her great great grandmother in 1929. She was excited. Then there was this young lady who came running in and onto the microfilm machine ,she said hello and I went on the computer to show Jeanne my website, and then we were on our way out we stopped and spoke with this young lady, and she said Oh I know who you are, she said you helped me out a while back and I have been to your site. That made me feel good, and she said I am so glad to meet you in person. She said you helped a lot of people, and I replied " I do it because I love doing it". We spoke about the Provincial Archives in Fredericton, I would love to go there for a whole week to browse through their material. I may still get there yet.
I also learned from Jeanne (who was a very nice lady) that the diocese of Charlottown will not give permission to release parish records after 1900.
They had a few parish records there, plus census, books from the PEI genealogy society, newspapers, cemeteries. But Jeanne said I would find much more at
Miscouche, had we had more time I would have gone, but I do intend on returning and going there, I also want to do more cemeteries perhaps next summer.
Oh and I tasted my first Syrian dish while at my friends house, it is called Keptie or Kepty, my friends were raving how good it was, so I said to myself ok, then I will try it. Well it was good, it is made of ground beef, rice, spices ,tomatoes, and boiled. She gave me the recipe and some spices . I will try and make some soon, I still want to make my gumbo . For christmas my friend Romm sent me a big box of cajun food, a cookbook even and a CD of Zacharie Richard, I love his singing. I love Acadian and Cajun music. I look for music of theirs to add to my website .
I had not blogged for a few days, but I wanted to share my short trip to PEI with you. Prince Edward Island is a beautiful place, I shall return, and so is Nova Scotia, I shall return. Never went to Newfoundland, would love to go there.
So thank you for coming and listening to my story, and do come again.
Have a great day
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It is now official, the Leger/Legere families now have their own coat of arms that has been officially registered in Ottawa. On Valentine Day, there was to be a ceremony at the University of Moncton. I can imagine it must have been interesting, and they were to retrace the footsteps of our ancestors Jacques Leger dit La Rosette. As you know Jacques Leger the first one to come to Acadie was a drummer in the military. So as you can see the drum in the center of the coat of arms represents Jacques Leger dit La Rosette, and if you count the rosettes all around the drum you will see that there are eleven of them, representing the eleven children of Jacques Leger dit La Rosette and his wife Madeleine Trahan. The star on the drum represents Acadie.

Mister Stephen White in the article of the L'Etoile where I found the coat of arm and story said that the records where the marriage of Jacques and Madeleine would have been married do not exist anymore. We know "he continued to say" that Jacques came from France but we do not know where in France.He was a soldier and a drummer soldier.

The article continues to say that the Legers are not the only ones who have registered for a coat of arms, there are also nine others; LeBlanc, Babin,Babineau, Boudreau, Bourgeois, Mallet, Robichaud and Savoie who on Valentine Day were also going to unveil their coat of arms.

On a different subject, we have had another taste of winter, snow, rain ,freezing rain, our paper shows a lady walking along the icy sidewalk and holding on to the snow bank as she walked. It is still very icy, anyway yesterday we decided to go check out the spring ,so we could fill our water jugs, there is a big difference from drinking spring water and drinking tap water, we can taste the chlorine in the tap water but spring water is pure. Our spring comes from a mountain, and they have a pipe so that the water flows through it. Anyway arriving at the spring, I took two jugs and headed for the path which is quite steep, I had to go through a large puddle of water , as I took a step to go down the hill I made a runway and all the water in the puddle started going down the pathway. There is no way I could have gone down, and had I tried I would have slipped and slid down in the running brook of cold water. So no way did I go. We will try it another day.

I am very happy that you dropped by today, I do know that my blogs are doing some good to some of you because , first of all you take a break from your busy schedule, second I sometimes can make you smile.

Have a great day

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Do you recognize this bridge? Do you live in Moncton NB or Dieppe NB? Did you ever live there? Well this is the old bridge on Main Street between Moncton and Dieppe. In the background you can see our Petitcodiac River. This bridge was called or named McMongle Bridge ( I did not know this) and it was replaced in 1978. The photo and information was in the latest L'Etoile paper.

Speaking of L'Etoile, just to remind you that I have added P'tit Francois des Bois on my website at www.acadian-roots.com ,he has a new little story in french every week. I am expecting some of these little stories of being translated in the future (I hope). Keep checking my website, you never know what you will find there. Changing the subject now with a bit of advertisement. grin; here goes; Have you exhausted all your research for your Acadian/Cajun/French Canadian roots? Have you hit a brick wall? Would you like to try and see if we can help you? Are you just beginning your family tree and need help? If you answered yes to any of these questions, email me at ize_o_blue and at yahoo.com (this is to avoid spammers) and I will tell you what to do next. Just add genealogy help in the subject line so that I will know and not delete it as spam.

I would just like to finish this blog by thanking all my members with their great help on our latest thing we did. And if you readers are curious to know what that is (like Bob Barker would say) Come on over. smile.

Have a great day, thanks for the lovely visit.

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Our Acadian Ancestors .Have you ever thought of when they left their home in France to sail across unknown waters to a place they had never set eyes on? Well I came across this article while searching for my Boudreau ancestos in "Un historique de la famille Boudreau .The photo of the french vessel is also from that same book.

Crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

The crossing of the Atlantic Ocean for our Acadian (even French Canadians) ancestors was not always restful. The voyage in these vessels could last from 30 to 60 days.

These vessels could cross the ocean between France and Cape Breton in seven weeks. Usually the vessels would leave the ports in France in the early spring in order to arrive to Acadie in time for the sowing season. The crew and passengers could expect storms to rise at any unexpected moments. Furthermore the crew had to confront pirates and thieves very active on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland during 1710 to 1740 years. Enemy ships were always to be feared especially during the times of war. The pirates had to be contented with fish,furs from Acadie and New France and manufactured products. Which could not be compared as to stealing gold, sugar, and coffee from the ocean ships from the South. But all was not always bad on the vessels, before the chaplain would say the vespers ,the sailors would dance on the deck while the passenger were taking a breather on the bridge.

The kings vessels from France also crossed animals to constitute livestock in New France,horses, pigs, ,cattle, cows,sheep, fowl etc. The ship also carried grains of all sorts, flour, barrels of wine plus all the passengers luggage and personal belongings.

I would imagine some of the children would have noticed many new and strange things during their voyage across the high seas, such as whales, and dolphins, seals, different kids of birds.

Arriving in Acadia or Quebec, they must have come across so many different kinds of flowers and plants, some of them being poison and they would not have known. How sad. But many of them were survivers, and very brave to come from their homeland to a strange new land not having a clue what to expect.

I do hope you have enjoyed reading this little article. On another note , I have added my Boudreau genealogy of my ancestors, with a few other names, I mentioned in my page that if errors were found to let me know. So if you have Boudreau lines who were in Quebec and came to Petit Rocher in New Brunswick, then they are my line also or branch into mine.

Thank you for stopping by, and do have a great day.

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Thunder just got groomed , so he wanted to say hello. I wanted to add his photo at the bottom of this blog ,but unable to do so.

Cyriac Brideau was my brother in law's brother in law, he was very well known in Saint Louis de Kent in New Brunswick. He was very interested in genealogy, his uncle Cyriac Daigle wrote a book on the History of Saint Louis. Cyriac was also a comedian, he would perform little skits or plays on stage. I remember him once asking me if I would join me in one of his plays, he said you can sing. Well if you heard me singing you would run away as fast as your legs would take you. smile. Of course I declined the invitation. Many people approached Cyriac for genealogy information about Saint Louis de Kent and its ancestors. While looking through my books and papers, I came across this story told by Cyriac Brideau and translated by Louis M Bourque in Le Reveil Acadien that I once belonged to.

HUNTING MISHAP by Cyriac Brideau;

In 1885, Urbain LeBlanc lived 2 miles from the village at the entrance of the Kouchibouguac Park. He noticed that at night a bear would come out of the woods and devour his sheep. Once and for all he decided to lay a trap and be rid of the bear. He laid out two big muskets one on each side of the small road where the bear usually came through. A cord was attached to each of the triggers of the guns and as the bear would cross the road it would touch the cord and the two guns would go off at the same time. I myself have seen a bear brought down in this manner by bear hunter Belonie A Richard father of Leonie and Stanislas of Richiboucto,Delphin of Pointe Sapin and tow nuns from Campbelton.

Returning to my story, the next day Urbain was in front of his barn when heard guns going off in the direction of where he had set his trap. The bear must certainly be down, he thought. With haste, he alerts his neighbors and they all set off for the woods. Urbain LeBlanc with his young son Germain, neighbor Urbain Fontaine and his young son James age 13. Elder LeBlan at the head of the party with son Germain, all running with excitement certain that both guns had went off. Unfortunately Urbain was mistaken, for upon arriving at the site, one of them touched the cord that was still attached to the second trigger discharging it, tumbling the two men, the father near death and his son severely injured.

Imagine the horror of the accompanying neighbors, the Fontaines, witnessing this accident and watching their friends bleeding to death. Elder LeBlanc saying "I'm going to die (Je vais mourir). Those big guns were powerful enough to inflict severe gaping wounds.

He had been wounded in the hip, while young LeBlanc had been injured in the knee. Young Jim (James) on the orders from his father set out running for help from Remi and Pierre Babineau. After about one mile, arriving at the main road, a wagon was passing by, the man calling out to the young boy to stop because at the rate he was running something horrible must have happened. After describing the accident, the passerby directed his horse full speed toward the accident site. It was with great joy to see this man who they recognized as the young doctor from Rexton, that young Jim had not recognized. Having given first aid he knew young Germain's life could be saved but feared for the father , as had had received the full force of the blow with much loss of blood.

Finally young Jim arrives with two men, a horse and buggy to transport the injured with the doctor following behind them. Upon their return home sadly his wife was to witness her husband on his deathbed. Her son seriously hurt, grateful to the doctor who had saved his life. His knee was never the same after the accident for he limped the rest of his life. Urbain LeBlanc was married to one of my aunts; Rachel Babineau,Pere Arcade LeBlanc, Eudiste, as well as Sister Auralie from Montreal and Louis from the USA are his surviving grandchildren. He was also he grandfather of the late Alphee who married Adrienne Maillet.

P.S. A few years ago I had the occasion to see the gun that killed my uncle Urbain at the house of Arthur Barrieau.

Cyriac Brideau.

There must have been so many terrible accidents similar to the above one, during the time of our ancestors. I do recall my parents telling me that one of my great grandmothers Marie Martin was walking along a dirt road in Adamsville and she was holding this stick, and she saw something brown or black moving in the ditch, she poked it with her stick and it turned out to be a bear, my parents told me that the bear chewed part of her side, and she later died. I have found no proof of that so far, but if I ever go to the archives I will see if I can find her death records.

Seeing todays blog is about accidents and tragedies, I would just like to say, to everyone in Alabama, Tennessee, Missouri and every state hit by those awful tornados I feel very bad for everyone, I do hope you remain safe. God Bless each one of you.

Thank you for stopping by. Take care.

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Hello everyone, I hope you are all having a great day. Well I have been busy the last few days. I have added a page in my cajun pages about an Acadian-Memorial Day to be held in Cajun-Country, I also added a few photos, so be sure to check it out ,it sounds like there is going to be lots of fun to be had.
Next I found more old newspapers among my souvenirs (just like the song grin), and I came across two articles that I have added in my Moncton page, if you go to my site www.acadian-roots.com click on Moncton, you will see the last two articles, I found them very interesting to read.
I added more names to my Chartersville Cemetery page. And our two projects in our acadianroots group at yahoo is going very well. So all I will say is if you have brick walls, and would like some help come join our genealogy group, you will be amazed at all the nice folks who are willing to give a try at knocking down your brick walls. Once you are there, you email me your brick walls and I post them .
Then our busy beavers really get to work. smile. To get to our genealogy group, go to my website above, click on acadian group in the left sidebar and come on in.
There are many many old messages you can look through.
OH here comes company. Have a great day everyone
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IMPORTANT ANNOUCEMENT, AND QUESTION TO FOLLOW.
I have been asked to make the following announcement to I shall post the email I received;
Dear Aline,
Hi! I'm Whitney Ransom, Director of Corporate Communications at FamilyLink.com, Inc. (a family of services that includes WorldVitalRecords.com, FamilyLink.com, and We're Related on Facebook). We have a really exciting announcement we are making on Monday, February 4, 2008. We are launching our World Collection, which contains more than 1.5 billion records from 35 different countries. (Our initial launch will include about .5 billions names, and we will release the rest of the records over the next few months.) I have included our press release at the end of this email with the rest of the details.
We want to spread the word about this launch as much as possible and would really appreciate it if you would mention it in your blog.
Also, we made a video about the joy of genealogy and family history. You may want to include it in your blog. Here are several locations where you can access the video.
5-minute version of the video:http://youtube.com/watch?v=btjPbRFaK24
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If you have any questions, please feel free to call me at (801)735-2192 or send an email to whitney@worldvitalrecords.com.
Thank you.
Whitney
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The World Collection includes birth, marriage and death records, census records, passenger lists, immigration lists, emigration records, foreign newspapers, cemetery records, reference materials, land records, family histories, historical records, city directories, business directories, township histories, civil service records, telephone directories, government records, war records, and maps, atlases, and gazetteers.
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This seems to be very exciting news, so I myself will be watching for this.
Next I would like to ask you , if anyone of you can identify the object above, I believe it may be upside down. My cousin found this in her back yard and is eager to have it identified. If you do know what it is, could you please leave a comment? or email me at ize_o_blue@yahoo.com with IDENTIFY in the subject line of your email?
I do hope you have enjoyed reading my latest addition on Beaubassin in my page at www.acadian-roots.com , I added a few more names again to Chartersville Cemetery. I do know that a lot of people are appreciating this, because I receive emails telling me so. This Chartersville Cemetery is huge, and I mean huge, there are other names I do not have, but during the summer I may go and copy a few more, I have an idea what general area is not done.
I also want to mention again, that if you have Barthelemy Bergeron dit Damboise and his wife Genevieve Serreau dit St Aubin in your lines, and you would be interested in joining our Bergeron list on googles, where we are reunited among other things to talk about a reunion being planned for next year in Fredericton New Brunswick , we would like as many descendants as possible to try and attend. We have folks from as far as Louisiana planning on attending, some from as near as Maine also. We want to spread the word to all descendants to come join us, even if you just want to chat Bergeron genealogy, go to bergeron-damboise@googlegroups.com
Thank you for listening, and for the lovely visit.
Have a great day.
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BEAUBASSIN, why am I beginning my blog with this name? Well the reason is because as I told you in other blogs, I have been going through some newpapers and articles I had saved and I thought I would share them with you. Since many of you would not have read the article, because you are not of my area. This new article I have added on my Beaubassin page at www.acadian-roots.com is very interestion, so if you had ancestors who were from Beaubassin, or any connections with Beaubassin, the article I have added titled"LOST VILLAGE HAS EXCITING HISTORY" is towards the middle of my Beaubassin page, it is very interesting with information from Ronnie-Gilles LeBlanc the former archivist with the CEA who I met and found to be a very intelligent man. (He also played a big part along with Regis Brun in sharing a movie with me where my parents were on and my great grandmother also). I will always be greatful to Regis and Ronnie for this. Imagine seeing your mother and father walking around in a movie taken before you were born? Mom was around 16 or 17 then. Today she is 89.
But getting back to the article, it is very well written, I do hope you will stop by and read it. This article was in our newspaper seven years ago.
On another note, I have added more names in my Chartersville cemetery. Still many more to add.
Our weather is really strange this year. Last night we had high winds, and today we have icy roads, but nothing as bad as what Prince Edward Island had, they had an ice storm, many are still without power today. To all of you on Prince Edward Island, I do hope your power will be up soon, and that your weather improves. Stay safe.
To all my readers, thank you again for the visit. I do not know who many of you are, but I do know you are there. Maria , hope you get well soon, hello cousin Eve, I see you there, smile, hi Cindy, Sara my faithful reader ,with your coffee, smile, hello Jean and Harry from Scotland, and Effie,Maureen. Just want you all to know, I know you are there.
Have a great day everyone, do drop by again.
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While I was looking through some of my old newpapers that I had saved, I came across this photo. Many of you have read that when our Acadian Ancestors came to Acadie, they built Dykes or Aboiteau ,so that they could grow crops and control the water flow. What they would do was to put five or six trees were the water entered their marsh, and then they would lay other trees lenghwise on top of each other and fill the holes with mud,and possible marsh grass, and pack the mud so that the water could not get through. They had some kind of gate that they could open and close, so they could control the flow of the water. The photo is of one or part of one taken near the Petitcodiac River in Memramcook. Can you imagine all the work there would have been in building these Aboiteaux? Now if you go to my website www.acadian-roots.com and look at my Acadians in Quebec, there is an article that says some of our Acadian Ancestors who settled in Quebec, brought this method of building dykes along with them. As I said I have added a page on the Acadians who went to Quebec, this was an article in the Etoile paper in 1994, in french and I added the french articles along with the english translation. If you find mistakes in my spelling or my wording, please know that I am doing the best I can at translating. You should have seen me while I did the translation, I had my french to english dictionary handy, and did I ever look up french words. Remember I speak Acadian Slang called Chiac, half french , half english,grin. So some of the words used were not in my vocabulary. smile.

So now I have many new pages on my website, and as I think of new things to add , I will do so, I am not finished with adding genealogy related articles.

Today we are in the middle of another storm, we went to town earlier and the roads are very slippery, the blades on my car wipers were all full of ice, freezing rain and I was telling my friend, boy can you imagine when our ancestors spent their first winters in our country? They would not have been prepared, there were not stores to run to, no cars, many must have frozen to death. If they hunted during the first winters, it sure must have been cold in the woods, and I wonder how warm their homes were? It is a good thing that the native americans taught them a lot about survival. And if our ancestors could only open their eyes and see our century, I really believe they would say. "Boy You sure are Lucky. "

Thanks for the visit, please drop in again.

Have a great day.

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Hello all you faithful readers and all you newcomers. I hope my blogs do interest you once in a while. I was going through my papers that I had saved over the years and I came across a french paper from the Etoile newspaper. It was all about the 1994 Congres Mondial or CMA, so I said to myself, I bet many folks would be interested in reading some articles. But the problem is, that the paper was written in french. So I decided to scan them anyway and add them to a page, and then I decided I would translate part of them into English as best I could. I did not translate the first article as yet, but all through the sections were articles on some ancestors, so I added them on my page and a bit of translation along with them. I noticed some errors in some parts of the families, such as Barnabe Martin being the son of Robert, which according to Stephen White, there is no actual proof that he was. And a Louis Robichaud thought to be the father of Etienne but again no proof of it. So I added the corrections on the page. My page doesn't look as good as my other pages since there are lots of scanned newspaper articles. But I do hope some of you will enjoy reading them.
My friend Maria who was ill is getting better, so for the ones who said prayers , thank you.
I have also added a few more names to my Chartersville Cemetery, and more to follow. I have also received photos of a Charles Cormier married to Mathilda Boudrot and their son Zoel Cormier and his family, to view them go to my photo gallery at www.acadian-roots.com , If you have old photos that you would like to share with others and add to my gallery let me know.
Now it is time for a cuppa hot coffee, so have a great day. Thanks for the visit. Hello to my friends in Scotland, hello to Eve and family also.
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Today I have decided to stop being lazy and come and do my blog. grin. We had to take Shadow to the SPCA a few days ago. It is sad to lose a pet,but my friend did the right thing,Shadow could not walk anymore, nor see, and he was in pain. Thunder is doing ok. He is going on fourteen so he is not a young dog either. Shadow was going on nineteen years of age, that is very old for a dog.
Well I have added another page on my website at www.acadian-roots.com , I made a page on Georgetown and Parkton . For the ones of you who never heard of these places, well they are now in Moncton New Brunswick, but at one time they were on the outskirts of Moncton. I had wanted to do a page for a long time. I have added articles and photos also. So for the ones of you who either lived in these places or had ancestors or relatives from there, I do hope you will stop by. Maybe later I will add more stuff about Georgetown and Parkton, and photos if ever I can get some. I would love to have a photo of the picnic that was help every year, and of the Jamboree Hall, and skating rink, I have one of part of the rink now.
We have started a project in our group , we are a bunch of folks who are willing to help with lookups for your brick walls , so if you are having problems, come join our group acadianrootsclub and we will do our best to try and help.
I have lots of cemeteries on our acadian-roots website, and I hope to add more as I do them next summer if I can.
The weather is nice today, not cold, last Monday, it was bitterly cold, with the wind chill it felt like minus 30 degree celsius and that is cold. I do understand why we have lots of folks from down here going down south for the winters. grin.
Well thank you for stopping by, my news are not plentiful today, but a little bit is better than none at all.
So until next time Have a great day
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As you can see, Buddy is growing fast, and I was told he is one happy puppy, he has a family who loves him. Lots of toys and I can imagine he has the very best of food. My son told me, when Buddy gets exited he howls. grin.

On a sad note, our Shadow is not doing very well, we are taking him to the vet next week, he is going on 19 years of age , and now his hips are giving up on him. I called the vet today but it is Sunday so we were unable to take him in, she told us to give him some bufferin coated pills, she gave us the strenghth to get. And we went and got a bottle. I hid the pill in some cheese, and Shadow swalled it. He later fell asleep, I will give him another one tonight. The vet said give it to him for two days only and if he happens to stop eating do not give him any pills, well let me tell you he did not stop eating today, his appetite is really good. I don't know what the vet will say next week when we take him in. But some of you must remember me telling you about Fluffy my sons dog? Well she was at the same stage as Shadow for awhile and they put her on Bufferins and she was ok for nearly another year. But I honestly don't think Shadow will be ok for another year, Fluffy was four years younger than Shadow.

Well I have added two more pages to my site at www.acadian-roots.com one is a few parish records for New Orleans and Pointe Coupee Louisiana, I do hope they will benefit someone in their research. I shall need to reorganize my sidebar soon. I am also thinking of another project to add, it won't be genealogy but will be looking back in time. I got many emails about my Moncton Nostalgia page, it made me feel good, seeing how it brought back memories to so many people. I also enjoyed doing the page. So watch for my next Nostalgia page at a later date.

I have also set up a get well card for my friend Maria ,just in case you wonder who she is, when you visited my site. She belongs in our genealogy group and on another list that I belong too. She also originally is from my home town. So I thought creating a get well card would be a nice idea. This sort of opens a door for me that I can do more cards as we go along for the ones who are ill, or for special occasions.

So thank you for the lovely visit, hello to Eve, Cindy, Effie,Maria, Sara, Harry, Jean,Rick,Paul,Maureen,Carole,and Carol, to Yolanda a new friend, and to all of you folks who dropped by.

Have a great day

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I am beginning this blog by saying that for the ones who did not hear ,last saturday a group of basketball players from the Bathurst High School came to Moncton for a game. On their way home they had a terrible accident ,their coach was the driver, the road was bad and their coach was driving along with his wife and child in the van. They lost control of the van ,it skidded into an oncoming vehicle. Seven boys were killed along with the wife of the coach. Four people survived , the coach, his daughter and two teamates of the boys.Needless to say it was a very sad tragedy. Tomorrow they are having the mass said in their arena, all of the caskets will be there together. Everyone is feeling very bad for the families of these boys and for the family of the coach's wife. I was listening to the news, a Halifax basketball group are having tee shirts made with the names of all the boys who died on them. They will wear the teeshirt for their game tomorrow night. Moncton High was the last team to play them, so the Moncton Basketball team is going to wear their logo all next season on their shirts. Another school is taking a big white sheet and having all the students send a message. The sister of one of the boys spoke about her brother last night on the television, she said so many nice things about him and his friends The names of the boys who died were;
Nathan Cleland, Justin Cormier,Daniel Hains,Javier Acevedo,Cody Branch all 17,Nicholas Quinn 16, Nicholas Kelly 15. So please keep them and all their love ones in your prayers and also keep Mrs Lord the coach's wife and her love ones in your prayers also.
Speaking of prayers, we have a member in our genealogy group named Maria, she is in the hospital, so even if you don't know her , say a prayer for a fast recovery?
Well I have added more names to my acadians who went to war page, and more names on my Chartersville Cemetery page.
I am going to try and go to the genealogy center this week, I have some obits to search for and other things to look into. Keep your fingers crossed that I find what I am looking for.
Thank you for stopping by, and to all the families who lost their love ones in the Bathurst Tragedy, my heart goes out to all of you.
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I checked the weather yesterday, light snow, oh that is very good,so we will only have light snow? Wrong ,wrong ,wrong. grin. Later last night I went on the weather channel, weather storm advisory, severe storm headed to Kent County and Moncton among other places. Twenty five centimeters expected this evening and through the night, with more snow expected tomorrow. It sure would be nice to be on some beach somewhere right now .smile.
Well, I have added new things on my website at www.acadian-roots.com , I have added a few more names to my Chartersville Cemetery also.
Some of my members in my group have sent me some new cajun words that I have also added. I have the 1851 census for a part of Northumberland County.
On another note, I have been receiving so many emails saying that my work is very well appreciated and that encourages me to keep on striving to make it even better. Many have emailed me saying, ohhhhhh I found an uncle, or these were my relatives in the school classes , and I found a relative in the cemetery or in the census. That is the purpose for my site ,to help others in any little way I can. I also have found new cousins along the way, again today I received an email saying they are related through my great grandmother's brother.
Also, in case you did not know, a group of us are planning a reunion in Fredericton in 2009 for all descendants of Barthelemy Bergeron and Genevieve Serreau dit St Aubin. It is going to coincide with an anniversary of the raid on Pointe Ste Anne, where our ancestors were, they also plan on asking the government to declare the location of the old Acadian Cemetery where our Barthelemy and others are buried and the church as a Historical Site. So if it does happen, it should be a nice reunion. I have contacted a Bergeron descendant who is a well known magician and he has replied and said he would love to attend if he is able.
For the ones who can read french,be sure to continue reading P'tit Francois, the writer has contacted me again, saying he is going to do the translation of my pages to english as soon as he can.
Thank you for stopping by, and thank you for your support.
Have a great day
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I woke up this morning, and the weather was gorgeous. It was a bit windy at first. Anyway I had been looking on the internet for a photo for one of my pages, but as you know it is not possible to just pick any nice photo online and use it. So I decided to take a ride to Richiboucto New Brunswick. So off we went my friend and I. All of a sudden I saw a sign, Sainte Anne , this is in Kent County New Brunswick and if you have looked at my site at www.acadian-roots.com you would have noticed I had a photo of the Sainte Anne Church burning, so we stopped at Sainte Anne and I took a photo of the new church, if you want to see it go to my site, and click on my Sainte Anne Cemetery page.
Next we continued on to Richiboucto, I wanted to stop at the wharf, we did, I took two photos, there were not boats at this time of the year , so I took a photo of where the boats enter the marina or wharf. Next we kept on going to the church.
What a beautiful church, I took three photos to make sure I had a nice one. Then we drove home again. It was such a beautiful day, the roads were all dry. On our way home, we heard the weatherman, tomorrow ,snow, rain and freezing ice pellets. I sure am glad we went for a ride today.
Now I have added another page to my website, I did the Richiboucto Parish Records. I have completed certain years, with the records of Acadian and French Canadian names only. I do hope it will benefit some of you in your research.
Now do not confuse Richiboucto with Richiboucto Village, they are two different towns near to each other. Richiboucto Village was mostly french, and Richiboucto was mostly English and Migmaw with some french at the beginning.
Thank you for stopping by, do check out my website for new things, and more to come probably. Stop by our acadianroots group also, we would love to help you if and when we can.
Have a great day
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Hello everyone, how are you this fine day? Our snow has gone down quite a bit, we had rain and very mild weather yesterday, now my car is free from all that snow.
Yesterday I went to my second home, the Centre d'Etude Acadienne (genealogy center). Arriving there , I thought to myself, what can I look for today? What can I find that would interest my website viewers, Ah ha,I thought of something, I am going to add more parish records. So I have two more pages to do, one for a register in Prince Edward Island and one for a register of a parish in New Brunswick. I shall be doing them very soon. While I was there I also browsed through other stuff, and I came across a letter written in 1825 of a trip to PEI by an Acadian written in his own language in french, and since I have french and cajun words on my site I thought I would add this letter. So if you can read french go to my site http://www.acadian-roots.com/ click on cajun/acadian and go to the bottom drop down menu you will see the trip. I could translate it into english but if I did so ,it would not be as interesting due to his way of speaking french.
Soon we will be beginning our new Project in our acadianroots group to help others with their brick walls, or try to help, so if you are surfing in, why don't you come join us , if you don't need help, then maybe you can help us.
In closing I would like to say I get offlines regarding my blogs, I am glad that many are reading these faithfully. Thank you for dropping by.
Have a great day, hello to Eve, Cindy,Harry,Jean(Scotland)Sara ,Effie,Maureen,Carol,and would everyone say a prayer for my friend Maria who is in the hospital, I hope she will be back with all of us very soon.
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