As you know there were many Acadian Fugitives during the Grand Derangement or Acadian Exile. Anyway, I was at the genealogy center a few days ago, and as always, every time I go there I keep thinking, I wonder what I could add on my Acadian website. This time I came across an article title Acadian Fugitives by Placide Gaudet. Now many of you know that Placide Gaudet was a great genealogist and he wrote lots of articles on the Acadians plus he had a series of genealogy books. So when I saw by Placide Gaudet and he had posted the article in the New Brunswick Magazine back in 1899, I knew I wanted to share it with my readers. So I have added the pages on my website, I did not write all the article but I copied and pasted the pages. I do hope you will find it interesting , I did. Go to www.acadian-roots.com you will see it there. I would like to hear your comments about the article if possible. Did you enjoy reading it?
Well we are expection snow tonight , five to ten centimeters, I am glad that we have moved a big part of my stuff. We have a couple more trips and then the movers will take the big furniture.
Let me tell you , that when night time comes, no one has to rock me to sleep. I hit the bed and wild horses couldn't wake me. grin. In the morning when I get up I am ready to load up the car again. So Friday is the big moving day. Then its back to unpacking and putting things away.
I do hope you have enjoyed todays blog and will go check out my website regarding Acadian Fugitives. Also if any of you readers are interested in joining our acadianrootsclub genealogy room, you can come in the back door through the side of my blog, once you join petiteacadienne then I shall invite you to our main group.
Have a great day Thanks for the visit.
Aline
Monday, March 23, 2009
Friday, March 20, 2009
Pleasant Surprises
Well to begin with, I am typing in GREEN, seeing today is the first day of Spring, which soon will bring the tulips and crocus to our flower beds. So happy first day of Spring to you.
What pleasant surprises am I talking about you ask? Well, to begin with, when I was doing my research at the genealogy center, I was very nosy and I looked everywhere for whatever I could find for my family tree. I believe with all my heart , that a family tree should hold more than just names, places and dates. You need to make your ancestors come alive, to sort of understand their lives and even their friends .
One day, I noticed someone had ordered some school returns, and that really interested me, to be able to find my father and my mother's school classes and even my grandmother's class.
From there I began searching for my school classes, 'Oh here is my grade one, I didn't know so and so was in my grade one!, anyway I found all my school grades from grades one to eight. I noticed there were classmates who were in most all of my grades with me.
Now getting back to my surprise, two days ago, an old friend of mine, sent me a photo, and she posted it in Facebook too. I looked at the photo and it was a photo of my classmates and me, I was around 12 years of age maybe younger and here were all the faces of the names I remember going to school with. Now I can add the photo with the school returns to match a face to the names. What a nice feeling to be able to do this. I did not think I would ever find a school photo with me in it, but this was a classmate who took our photo in front of the school.
Well changing the subject, I am in the process of moving, yuck!, I do not like moving, but there was an apartment empty two doors down from my Mom's, and this way I will be closer to her, she is 90 or will be 91 in May, she had fallen and broke her pelvis two places five weeks ago, would you believe she is now walking with a walker and sometimes without the walker around the house? She was determined not to give up, and her progress really shows this.
Now she is talking about driving her car again, and maybe even going for another trip to the USA. grin. Her memory is really really good, I know I will never have a memory like hers, I write everything down to make sure I remember. I must take after my Dad, he couldn't remember his youth at all. I remember but not as well as Mom.
Oh a final note. I am wondering if there are any readers out there who do cross stiching or embroidery or wooden crafts and so on who would be willing to donate something to give at our reunion in July. I want to give out some prizes and as you all know crafts ARE expensive, so if there is anyone out there who wants to donate something, even some Acadian Music would be great, contact me and we can discuss it, I will tell you what ideas I have ok?
Contact me through the url on the right side.
Have a great day , thanks for the visit.
Aline
What pleasant surprises am I talking about you ask? Well, to begin with, when I was doing my research at the genealogy center, I was very nosy and I looked everywhere for whatever I could find for my family tree. I believe with all my heart , that a family tree should hold more than just names, places and dates. You need to make your ancestors come alive, to sort of understand their lives and even their friends .
One day, I noticed someone had ordered some school returns, and that really interested me, to be able to find my father and my mother's school classes and even my grandmother's class.
From there I began searching for my school classes, 'Oh here is my grade one, I didn't know so and so was in my grade one!, anyway I found all my school grades from grades one to eight. I noticed there were classmates who were in most all of my grades with me.
Now getting back to my surprise, two days ago, an old friend of mine, sent me a photo, and she posted it in Facebook too. I looked at the photo and it was a photo of my classmates and me, I was around 12 years of age maybe younger and here were all the faces of the names I remember going to school with. Now I can add the photo with the school returns to match a face to the names. What a nice feeling to be able to do this. I did not think I would ever find a school photo with me in it, but this was a classmate who took our photo in front of the school.
Well changing the subject, I am in the process of moving, yuck!, I do not like moving, but there was an apartment empty two doors down from my Mom's, and this way I will be closer to her, she is 90 or will be 91 in May, she had fallen and broke her pelvis two places five weeks ago, would you believe she is now walking with a walker and sometimes without the walker around the house? She was determined not to give up, and her progress really shows this.
Now she is talking about driving her car again, and maybe even going for another trip to the USA. grin. Her memory is really really good, I know I will never have a memory like hers, I write everything down to make sure I remember. I must take after my Dad, he couldn't remember his youth at all. I remember but not as well as Mom.
Oh a final note. I am wondering if there are any readers out there who do cross stiching or embroidery or wooden crafts and so on who would be willing to donate something to give at our reunion in July. I want to give out some prizes and as you all know crafts ARE expensive, so if there is anyone out there who wants to donate something, even some Acadian Music would be great, contact me and we can discuss it, I will tell you what ideas I have ok?
Contact me through the url on the right side.
Have a great day , thanks for the visit.
Aline
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
A journey back Home.
I came across this little tidbit while looking in the Societe Historique Acadienne today and I wanted to share it with you.
In the collections published by the French Canadian and reproduced by the Canadian Archive Reports in 1905 ,we find the following article of one Mister Fraser of Miramichi in 1815 which we have transcribed from the Dr Brown collection.
"Michel O Bask (Bastarache) , his brother Pierre O Bask and twelve others travelled through the woods from South Carolina ,some say from New Orleans right up to the top of the Saint Laurent river and from there travelled by canoe to Cumberland where they joined their wives, familes and homeland. These two Bask families were said to be still living around Miramichi.
Placide Gaudet added that that many of the acadians followed the shores to return to their homeland in Acadie. Many did the journey on foot ,through the woods and on May 8 1756 we find fifteen which we notice Pierre and Michel Bastarache, and the old Broussard dit Beausoleil who was their leader and which left from South Carolina and arrived in Quebec at the end of September of the same year. They had to cross the United States on foot.
This story has been handed down from generation to generation and in 1971 a mister Girouard
from Sainte Marie told this story. Mister Girouard was a descendant from Pierre Bastarache
on his maternal side.
"Pierre Bastarache and his brother Michel were among the many prisoners in Grand Pre during the deportation. There were crucifixes attached along the sides of the church for the station of the cross. A native american was among the prisoners and he removed five crosses and gave one of them to Pierre.
These Bastarache brothers were deported to south Carolina, and were held prisoners in a potato cave. During the night, they escaped and hid under the wharf.
To flee to the south they had to pass by an area guarded by a dog, who was there to warn the guards by barking daytime or night time.In order to go by the dog, there were 27 prisoners in all, one of them took a twenty cent coin and put it under the heel of his left foot in order to keep the dog from barking. It worked they crossed without waking the guards and the dog tried to bark and he couldnt.
During their journey they found fruits that they did not recognize, the oldest said he would eat the first one and if the fruit was poison all they would have to do was bury him. After a two hour wait, the old man was not dead and everyone ate the fruit. A little further on they found a horse , killed it for meat. Finally they arrived as far as Mississippi.
There they were made prisoners by the native americans. The chief wanted to kill them, but one of his daughters had married a french man from france, and the frenchman talked the chief into letting them have their freedom. The chief even gave them guns, hatchets and food and canoes to take on their journey. The voyage from South Carolina to Memramcook took them two years. When Pierre arrived , he found his mother and it seems then when they were away his mother would say everynight at bedtime," No Pierre,noMichel".
The descendants of Pierre settled in Bouctouche, Joseph ,Isidore and Michel Bastarache settled in northern New Brunswick.
As for the crucifix, Joseph had it in his possession and took it to church at each of his daughters weddings. The youngest one married Simon LeBlanc , her name was Brigitte and she received the crucifix. Father Desire Allain was one of the descendents of the LeBlancs and he had this crucifix from Pierre Bastarache in his possession.
I hope you have enjoyed todays blog. I found this an interesting story.
Have a great day, thanks for the visit.
Aline
In the collections published by the French Canadian and reproduced by the Canadian Archive Reports in 1905 ,we find the following article of one Mister Fraser of Miramichi in 1815 which we have transcribed from the Dr Brown collection.
"Michel O Bask (Bastarache) , his brother Pierre O Bask and twelve others travelled through the woods from South Carolina ,some say from New Orleans right up to the top of the Saint Laurent river and from there travelled by canoe to Cumberland where they joined their wives, familes and homeland. These two Bask families were said to be still living around Miramichi.
Placide Gaudet added that that many of the acadians followed the shores to return to their homeland in Acadie. Many did the journey on foot ,through the woods and on May 8 1756 we find fifteen which we notice Pierre and Michel Bastarache, and the old Broussard dit Beausoleil who was their leader and which left from South Carolina and arrived in Quebec at the end of September of the same year. They had to cross the United States on foot.
This story has been handed down from generation to generation and in 1971 a mister Girouard
from Sainte Marie told this story. Mister Girouard was a descendant from Pierre Bastarache
on his maternal side.
"Pierre Bastarache and his brother Michel were among the many prisoners in Grand Pre during the deportation. There were crucifixes attached along the sides of the church for the station of the cross. A native american was among the prisoners and he removed five crosses and gave one of them to Pierre.
These Bastarache brothers were deported to south Carolina, and were held prisoners in a potato cave. During the night, they escaped and hid under the wharf.
To flee to the south they had to pass by an area guarded by a dog, who was there to warn the guards by barking daytime or night time.In order to go by the dog, there were 27 prisoners in all, one of them took a twenty cent coin and put it under the heel of his left foot in order to keep the dog from barking. It worked they crossed without waking the guards and the dog tried to bark and he couldnt.
During their journey they found fruits that they did not recognize, the oldest said he would eat the first one and if the fruit was poison all they would have to do was bury him. After a two hour wait, the old man was not dead and everyone ate the fruit. A little further on they found a horse , killed it for meat. Finally they arrived as far as Mississippi.
There they were made prisoners by the native americans. The chief wanted to kill them, but one of his daughters had married a french man from france, and the frenchman talked the chief into letting them have their freedom. The chief even gave them guns, hatchets and food and canoes to take on their journey. The voyage from South Carolina to Memramcook took them two years. When Pierre arrived , he found his mother and it seems then when they were away his mother would say everynight at bedtime," No Pierre,noMichel".
The descendants of Pierre settled in Bouctouche, Joseph ,Isidore and Michel Bastarache settled in northern New Brunswick.
As for the crucifix, Joseph had it in his possession and took it to church at each of his daughters weddings. The youngest one married Simon LeBlanc , her name was Brigitte and she received the crucifix. Father Desire Allain was one of the descendents of the LeBlancs and he had this crucifix from Pierre Bastarache in his possession.
I hope you have enjoyed todays blog. I found this an interesting story.
Have a great day, thanks for the visit.
Aline
Sunday, March 15, 2009
What is in a Name?
Have you ever heard a man called Fred a Joe a Meleme? Or Jean a Fidele a Charles? Many Acadian families were identified that way. (Meaning Fred son of Joe who was a son of Meleme.)
By the way this was my father in law's family. So for example if there were two Joseph LeBlanc in the same village, they would identify them as Joseph a Pierre or Joseph a Marcel.
Have you ever heard someone called Saindoux?Bonhomme Gould,Leonide Menteur. And some children of certain families would be known as the Cormiers, the Landrys etc. Among the Leblancs of Village du Bois and Memramcook some were known as Charlittes, Mulligan, Petits Chicot and Saindoux. The Charlittes and Saindoux were two different branches.
Saindoux name or nickname that we still hear of today started with Dominique LeBlanc in the middle of the 19th century. Here is what was said from a descendant: In the olden days they would kill a pig and take the fat from it and melt it like Shortening (Saindoux) ,they cooked with it. Anyway old Dominique my grandfather's father,came to old Jude's house. It was in the spring and they were killing the pigs and they would melt the fat to make shortening . Then it would melt on the road ,there were little patches of ice, and Dominique would be walking along with his pail, then he hit a patch of ice and his two feet lifted in the air. And all the Saindoux fell on the ice and all over him. And they have called him Saindoux from that day on. source book Village du Bois.
I remember a family in my youth , that were named Musquit. I forget what their last names were . Now Olivier Doiron was known as Olivier dit Bouleau. I guess these were ways to distinguish families. Many families had pet names for their children, such as Princess, Pitonne,Titi,Tata, Peete,Pouch, Catoo,Catchoo, Catonne, Catin, Chol. I am sure you must have heard some of these names before. Now do you have any nicknames used by your ancestors or family? Why don't you share them ?
I hope you have enjoyed todays blog, and will drop by again.
Have a great day
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By the way this was my father in law's family. So for example if there were two Joseph LeBlanc in the same village, they would identify them as Joseph a Pierre or Joseph a Marcel.
Have you ever heard someone called Saindoux?Bonhomme Gould,Leonide Menteur. And some children of certain families would be known as the Cormiers, the Landrys etc. Among the Leblancs of Village du Bois and Memramcook some were known as Charlittes, Mulligan, Petits Chicot and Saindoux. The Charlittes and Saindoux were two different branches.
Saindoux name or nickname that we still hear of today started with Dominique LeBlanc in the middle of the 19th century. Here is what was said from a descendant: In the olden days they would kill a pig and take the fat from it and melt it like Shortening (Saindoux) ,they cooked with it. Anyway old Dominique my grandfather's father,came to old Jude's house. It was in the spring and they were killing the pigs and they would melt the fat to make shortening . Then it would melt on the road ,there were little patches of ice, and Dominique would be walking along with his pail, then he hit a patch of ice and his two feet lifted in the air. And all the Saindoux fell on the ice and all over him. And they have called him Saindoux from that day on. source book Village du Bois.
I remember a family in my youth , that were named Musquit. I forget what their last names were . Now Olivier Doiron was known as Olivier dit Bouleau. I guess these were ways to distinguish families. Many families had pet names for their children, such as Princess, Pitonne,Titi,Tata, Peete,Pouch, Catoo,Catchoo, Catonne, Catin, Chol. I am sure you must have heard some of these names before. Now do you have any nicknames used by your ancestors or family? Why don't you share them ?
I hope you have enjoyed todays blog, and will drop by again.
Have a great day
Aline
Friday, March 13, 2009
Moving and Hens
Well first of all, I am moving and I am beginning to have an idea how Hank Snow's I've Been Everywhere song became famous, he's been everywhere, and I've MOVED everywhere. grin.
Well hopefully this time I will stay. So the end of the month the movers will be here and away I go . Now what does moving have to do with Hens? Well I am reading a book called Au Village du Bois and I came across the following article that I wanted to share with you.
In the village there were always story tellers and joke tellers and the following is one that was mentioned in the book.
"I had married the daughter of Vital and she was never satisfied and she always had to "move".She could never stay at one place for long. And we had five hens and everytime we moved so did the hens. We had horses and a truck wagon and we would tie the hen's feet together so they would not fly away. And these hens were so used to seeing a chair being brought outside that everytime they saw a chair being brought outside, they would lay on their backs and cross their feet.grin.
Now changing the subject, I have added two more pages on my website at acadian-roots.com ,I have added some marriages from Grande Digue New Brunswick and some marriages from Havre Boucher Nova Scotia. They are not complete but a few names is better than none at all and I may be adding more to the Grande Digue page . Havre Boucher marriages are only from 1831 to 1847 and among those are a few marriages of Tracadie Nova Scotia.
And for some good news, I don't know if I mentioned that my Mom had fallen and broke her pelvis bone about five weeks ago. She is 90 and I was so afraid that she would not heal, she had been in a wheelchair ever since, anyway yesterday we stopped by on our way home and when I walked into her home, there she was walking with a walker, well I was so surprised to see her up and walking. She has a therapist coming in and helping her ,I believe all the prayers that were said for her have been answered. So to you who have said prayers I thank you.
I noticed I now have 24 followers, one more to go for my first quota of 25. I am very impressed.
Thanks for stopping by and I hope you will return.
Have a great day
Aline
Well hopefully this time I will stay. So the end of the month the movers will be here and away I go . Now what does moving have to do with Hens? Well I am reading a book called Au Village du Bois and I came across the following article that I wanted to share with you.
In the village there were always story tellers and joke tellers and the following is one that was mentioned in the book.
"I had married the daughter of Vital and she was never satisfied and she always had to "move".She could never stay at one place for long. And we had five hens and everytime we moved so did the hens. We had horses and a truck wagon and we would tie the hen's feet together so they would not fly away. And these hens were so used to seeing a chair being brought outside that everytime they saw a chair being brought outside, they would lay on their backs and cross their feet.grin.
Now changing the subject, I have added two more pages on my website at acadian-roots.com ,I have added some marriages from Grande Digue New Brunswick and some marriages from Havre Boucher Nova Scotia. They are not complete but a few names is better than none at all and I may be adding more to the Grande Digue page . Havre Boucher marriages are only from 1831 to 1847 and among those are a few marriages of Tracadie Nova Scotia.
And for some good news, I don't know if I mentioned that my Mom had fallen and broke her pelvis bone about five weeks ago. She is 90 and I was so afraid that she would not heal, she had been in a wheelchair ever since, anyway yesterday we stopped by on our way home and when I walked into her home, there she was walking with a walker, well I was so surprised to see her up and walking. She has a therapist coming in and helping her ,I believe all the prayers that were said for her have been answered. So to you who have said prayers I thank you.
I noticed I now have 24 followers, one more to go for my first quota of 25. I am very impressed.
Thanks for stopping by and I hope you will return.
Have a great day
Aline
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Widow at 13 ,Millionaire at 34
I thought my Mom had married young ,she was 14 when she married my Dad, had her first baby at 15, can you imagine? Before I go on with my story, last night I went and stayed with Mom for a few hours and I am always amazed at her stories. We were talking about log homes, and she was telling me her father had built their log house, and she explained how he cut the logs and fit them at the corners and how they filled the cracks with Moss. I said the place must have been cold. She replied "Oh no, the house was warm" she continued to say he had dug a hole under the house and they would store their food for the winter there. Mom said they had steps leading down to the cellar from their kitchen floor.(Mom is 90 years old).
Now to the story: Found this in SHA (Societe Historique Acadienne) at the genealogy center. Now this might be among Clarence D'Entremont articles on line, but I have not noticed.
Anne Mius d'Entrement daughter of Jacques Mius D'Entremont and Anne de LaTour was born in Pubnico in 1694 and according to her mother's testimony she was thirteen years old when she married Antoine de Sallien sieur de Saillant in Port Royal July 18 1707. One month and three weeks later ,on September 8 Antoine de Sallien died of wounds suffered defending Port Royal from the English under the command of John March.
Anne Mius D'Entremont became the youngest widow in the Acadian journals and even in Canada. After the English conquered Acadia in 1710, Anne returned to Louisbourg where three of her sisters had married french officers. It is there on Feb 12 1716, she married secondly to the governor of Cape Breton Philippe de Pastour de Costebelle widower of Anne de Tours de Sourdeval. This marriage lasted but one year and a half because Philippe died at the end of October 1717. Philippe left her nothing when he died , he was so much in debt that they may have even confiscated her clothes and furniture to pay his debts.
Anne eventually ended up in France around 1718 to ask the King for help. This is when she headed for Bearn in the southwest of France,at the birthplace of the Baron St-Castin where her brother Philippe Mius d'Entremont who married Therese de Saint Castin daughter of the Baron was. This is where she met a rich Seigneur named Laurent de Navailles Subercase, abbe laique d'Asson at Bearn, Knight and baron of Labatut, Officer of the Navarre Regime,and of one of the oldest french families of whom the mother must have been related to Jean Vincent D'Abbadie de Saint Castin. This third marriage was held in Paris (ooo la la grin) at the Saint Eustache Church Aug.20 1719. She was given the title Baroness. This marriage lasted about nine years, this husband left her besides five children of a previous marriage, a great fortune, including numerous rents, and riches from all over. So she married young, became a widow three time, and she remained a widow for around fifty years and died October 15 1778 in her Chateau Navailles-Labatut in Bearn France.
I hope you have enjoyed today's blog. I would like to end todays blog by thanking Geneabloggers for featuring me yesterday.
Thank you for stopping by, I do hope you will return .
Have a great day
Aline
Now to the story: Found this in SHA (Societe Historique Acadienne) at the genealogy center. Now this might be among Clarence D'Entremont articles on line, but I have not noticed.
Anne Mius d'Entrement daughter of Jacques Mius D'Entremont and Anne de LaTour was born in Pubnico in 1694 and according to her mother's testimony she was thirteen years old when she married Antoine de Sallien sieur de Saillant in Port Royal July 18 1707. One month and three weeks later ,on September 8 Antoine de Sallien died of wounds suffered defending Port Royal from the English under the command of John March.
Anne Mius D'Entremont became the youngest widow in the Acadian journals and even in Canada. After the English conquered Acadia in 1710, Anne returned to Louisbourg where three of her sisters had married french officers. It is there on Feb 12 1716, she married secondly to the governor of Cape Breton Philippe de Pastour de Costebelle widower of Anne de Tours de Sourdeval. This marriage lasted but one year and a half because Philippe died at the end of October 1717. Philippe left her nothing when he died , he was so much in debt that they may have even confiscated her clothes and furniture to pay his debts.
Anne eventually ended up in France around 1718 to ask the King for help. This is when she headed for Bearn in the southwest of France,at the birthplace of the Baron St-Castin where her brother Philippe Mius d'Entremont who married Therese de Saint Castin daughter of the Baron was. This is where she met a rich Seigneur named Laurent de Navailles Subercase, abbe laique d'Asson at Bearn, Knight and baron of Labatut, Officer of the Navarre Regime,and of one of the oldest french families of whom the mother must have been related to Jean Vincent D'Abbadie de Saint Castin. This third marriage was held in Paris (ooo la la grin) at the Saint Eustache Church Aug.20 1719. She was given the title Baroness. This marriage lasted about nine years, this husband left her besides five children of a previous marriage, a great fortune, including numerous rents, and riches from all over. So she married young, became a widow three time, and she remained a widow for around fifty years and died October 15 1778 in her Chateau Navailles-Labatut in Bearn France.
I hope you have enjoyed today's blog. I would like to end todays blog by thanking Geneabloggers for featuring me yesterday.
Thank you for stopping by, I do hope you will return .
Have a great day
Aline
Sunday, March 08, 2009
Photos and why we should identify them
The photo on the left is unknown, it was among the photos of the D'Amboise Family .It is thought that maybe this could be a brother to Narcisse D'Amboise who married Marie Dumont and a son to Jean D'Amboise married to Suzanne Cayouette.So if you readers recognize this photo please leave a comment on the bottom of this blog?
The same thing happened to me when my mother in law passed away, she had old photos, possibly relatives, who were they? I never knew. So this is important, write down who they are, even your immediate family, because through our lifetimes, our looks sometimes change quite a bit. This is very important. Think about it, many years from now when we are gone, our great great great grandchildren will be able to look at a photo of us, and say oh this is wonderful and they will marvel at how we looked and how we dressed, and hopefully be proud of us. We should also take pictures of our homes, our farms or even our cars. When I look at some of my old photos and see that my grandfather had a Model A Ford truck, it is something to behold.
One day we will be antiques grin and all our material things will also be antique and some of our descendants may marvel and what we had in our lifetime.
Changing the subject, our Bergeron-Damboise reunion plans are moving along just great. July will soon be here . Next week I am meeting with the one who is making the lunch, and I am anxious to meet her. I wish I were rich, because if I were rich, I would have some lobster or salmon to serve even as sandwiches to our guests, since some of them are coming for far away, I keep thinking in my mind, "What can I do that will make the guests really glad they came to the reunion? What could I do that would be special? I have come up with some things which I know they will all appreciate. I will share the results of our reunion with you when it is over.
Well I need to call it a day, I am packing and moving again. This time I am moving closer to my Mom as a matter of fact two doors down from her. That way I will be close by if I am needed.
Thank you for the lovely visit, do stop by again.
Have a great day
Aline
Saturday, March 07, 2009
Celebrate Your Name Week
I was wondering what I should blog about and my friend Evelyn alerted me to Celebrate your name week. So this is what I am going to do, celebrate my name.
ALINE origin French meaning "Noble". origin Armenian meaning bearer of the light. Used in English,French and Armenian Countries. In Celtic it is a feminin form of Allen or variant form of Helen.It is also a form of Adeline. .They must have taken the DE out of it. grin.In Scotland Aline is a form of Aileen and Alina. Popularity The name Aline, is the 59023rd most popular baby name at Mybaby-name.com placing it in the top 82% of names by popularity. Oh my! in English,
Aline means noble and "BRIGHT???? grin. Anyway you have a general idea on my name. BUT
I was not names for anyone famous, but I did ask Mom once, where she got my name because my sister was named after Loretta Lynn, my other sister after Rita Hayworth, my brother after Ted Williams but me?? Mom told me, when she was pregnant for me, there was this pretty little girl who used to walk past her house with long brown hair and her name was Aline, so she named me after this little girl walking by, and Mom said to me" Then I had my own little pretty brown haired girl." smile.
Do you have any little stories to share about your first name? If so, why don't you add a comment here? I would love to hear your stories.
Thanks for the visit and do stop by again.
Have a great day
Aline
ALINE origin French meaning "Noble". origin Armenian meaning bearer of the light. Used in English,French and Armenian Countries. In Celtic it is a feminin form of Allen or variant form of Helen.It is also a form of Adeline. .They must have taken the DE out of it. grin.In Scotland Aline is a form of Aileen and Alina. Popularity The name Aline, is the 59023rd most popular baby name at Mybaby-name.com placing it in the top 82% of names by popularity. Oh my! in English,
Aline means noble and "BRIGHT???? grin. Anyway you have a general idea on my name. BUT
I was not names for anyone famous, but I did ask Mom once, where she got my name because my sister was named after Loretta Lynn, my other sister after Rita Hayworth, my brother after Ted Williams but me?? Mom told me, when she was pregnant for me, there was this pretty little girl who used to walk past her house with long brown hair and her name was Aline, so she named me after this little girl walking by, and Mom said to me" Then I had my own little pretty brown haired girl." smile.
Do you have any little stories to share about your first name? If so, why don't you add a comment here? I would love to hear your stories.
Thanks for the visit and do stop by again.
Have a great day
Aline
Friday, March 06, 2009
Abraham Boudreau
Abraham Boudreau was born around 1657 the son of Michel Boudreau and Michele Aucoin. He married Cecile Melanson daughter of Charles Melanson and Marie Dugas around 1686. In the 1698 census in Port Royal, he had 10 horned cattle,9 sheeps,6 pigs ,8 fruit trees, one rifle and 3 arpents of land.
Abraham was a merchant navigator of Port Royal where his ship was captured in June 1683 by the pirate Grayham and testified in Boston against one of the Pirate officers. This same Abraham would be acting as a spy for the Acadian Governor Villebon. He would go to Boston on a regular basis and inform the Acadian Govenment on the war preparations. On Dec.4 1692, Boudreau informed the governor that he was going to Boston and bring back information for the month of March in 1693. It is a good thing Boudreau brought back the information, so that Villebon could send the details to Ponchartrain, minister of the French Navy of the Pemaquid Fort. ON March 17 1695, Boudreau informed Villebon of the presence of English War Ships at the Port of Boston. Thanks to this information, Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, Baptiste,Jean-Vincent D'Abbadie baron of St Castin and others would capture on Aug.15 1696 Fort Pemaguid. source Societe Historique Acadienne.
When I was at the genealogy center, I came across this article about Abraham Boudreau, and thought to myself, I bet this would be a great thing to add to my blog. As I said before, these little tidbits we find here and there, are an important part of our history. If you descend from Abrham Boudreau and Cecile Melanson, you should add this little story ,or do more research on it and add it to your family tree. I checked my Boudreau line and it doesn't have Abraham in it.
Changing the subject, I was all excited , I had written to the Archives to find a death record for my ggrandfather Amand Cormier, they said we found the record and will be sending it to you.
Today the big brown envelope arrived, oh boy! oh boy! It is the death record, I thought. So I quickly opened the envelope but to my dissapointment they sent me his death record from the church, I already had it, and they said they could not find a death record there for him. So I am wondering if back then, they forgot to register deaths. He died in 1913, but no record. I searched under Joseph, I searched under Amand, Armand,Laman, found nothing. Seeing as I waiting around thirty to find his wife, maybe I will have to wait another thirty years for him. So guess I will have to stick around. grin.
Thanks for the visit, do stop by again.
Have a great day
Aline
Abraham was a merchant navigator of Port Royal where his ship was captured in June 1683 by the pirate Grayham and testified in Boston against one of the Pirate officers. This same Abraham would be acting as a spy for the Acadian Governor Villebon. He would go to Boston on a regular basis and inform the Acadian Govenment on the war preparations. On Dec.4 1692, Boudreau informed the governor that he was going to Boston and bring back information for the month of March in 1693. It is a good thing Boudreau brought back the information, so that Villebon could send the details to Ponchartrain, minister of the French Navy of the Pemaquid Fort. ON March 17 1695, Boudreau informed Villebon of the presence of English War Ships at the Port of Boston. Thanks to this information, Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, Baptiste,Jean-Vincent D'Abbadie baron of St Castin and others would capture on Aug.15 1696 Fort Pemaguid. source Societe Historique Acadienne.
When I was at the genealogy center, I came across this article about Abraham Boudreau, and thought to myself, I bet this would be a great thing to add to my blog. As I said before, these little tidbits we find here and there, are an important part of our history. If you descend from Abrham Boudreau and Cecile Melanson, you should add this little story ,or do more research on it and add it to your family tree. I checked my Boudreau line and it doesn't have Abraham in it.
Changing the subject, I was all excited , I had written to the Archives to find a death record for my ggrandfather Amand Cormier, they said we found the record and will be sending it to you.
Today the big brown envelope arrived, oh boy! oh boy! It is the death record, I thought. So I quickly opened the envelope but to my dissapointment they sent me his death record from the church, I already had it, and they said they could not find a death record there for him. So I am wondering if back then, they forgot to register deaths. He died in 1913, but no record. I searched under Joseph, I searched under Amand, Armand,Laman, found nothing. Seeing as I waiting around thirty to find his wife, maybe I will have to wait another thirty years for him. So guess I will have to stick around. grin.
Thanks for the visit, do stop by again.
Have a great day
Aline
Thursday, March 05, 2009
The High Seas with pirates ,buccaneers,privateers
We call them Corsairs, Buccaneers, Thieves and Pirates. They were the ones who attacked merchant ships in the high seas.There always were pirates on the seas just as there will always be thieves and mercenaries. We figure the pirates were at their peak from 1650 to 1725 with the majority of them being in Antilles. The Manche, Mediteranean, Madagascar island, Indian Ocean and China Sea were the areas most freqented by the pirates. Acadie situated in the center of the war between France and England was often victims of english pirate attacks and one of the principle haven of French Corsairs in North America. It is in the golden age era of pirates especially a short while before the treaty of Utrecht that the activities of piracy were more intense in Acadie. Baptiste, Guyon Brothers,Lamothe Cadillac,d'Iberville,Rodrigue,Deny brothers,Saint Castin sons,and Morpain are the most well known of the french buccaneers in those years.
What were these pirates and corsairs looking for? The best prizes in Antilles was gold, silver and jewelry. Slaves were important prizes. In the north Atlantic in times of war the most important prizes were arms, guns, canons and powder. Often they took corn, barrels of flour,sugar, molasses and rum ,sometimes wood,fish and furs.The following is from SHA (Societe Historique acadienne). regarding Baptiste the pirate;
With his brigatine in the trimester ,he takes ten English buildings. March 10 1697 three leagues from Canso Bay in Maine, the Acadians meet eight fishing boats which had 28 men. Baptiste and his crew who had only eaten shellfish gathered along the shore, decided to attack the fishing boats to get some food. The boats were all lined one along side the other, and Baptiste decided to attack during the night of March 10th or 11. His two vessels attacked two boats while they were asleep. They had no problem but the noise woke the other boats who retaliated with lots of vigor. The privateers bravely boarded the boats and fought like lions, and became masters of six boats .The other two boats saw the results of the attack and fled like the wind. There were seven Englishmen killed, including five Captains of the boats, four injured and twenty prisoners. Baptiste received three wounds, and eight of his men were injured but no one seriously hurt.
Baptiste did many raids until 1697 when he was made prisoner in Boston. He was treated very cruel, they even tried to poison him. Freed in 1698 he continued attacking the English Vessels who were fishing illegally. In 1702 he was captured again until 1706. They wanted to hang him as a Pirate.He was later traded for the release of Reverend John Williams who was captured by the Native Americans in a raid.
Well this is it for today, thank you for the visit , do stop by soon ( I really need my cuppa coffee) grin.
Have a great day
Aline
What were these pirates and corsairs looking for? The best prizes in Antilles was gold, silver and jewelry. Slaves were important prizes. In the north Atlantic in times of war the most important prizes were arms, guns, canons and powder. Often they took corn, barrels of flour,sugar, molasses and rum ,sometimes wood,fish and furs.The following is from SHA (Societe Historique acadienne). regarding Baptiste the pirate;
With his brigatine in the trimester ,he takes ten English buildings. March 10 1697 three leagues from Canso Bay in Maine, the Acadians meet eight fishing boats which had 28 men. Baptiste and his crew who had only eaten shellfish gathered along the shore, decided to attack the fishing boats to get some food. The boats were all lined one along side the other, and Baptiste decided to attack during the night of March 10th or 11. His two vessels attacked two boats while they were asleep. They had no problem but the noise woke the other boats who retaliated with lots of vigor. The privateers bravely boarded the boats and fought like lions, and became masters of six boats .The other two boats saw the results of the attack and fled like the wind. There were seven Englishmen killed, including five Captains of the boats, four injured and twenty prisoners. Baptiste received three wounds, and eight of his men were injured but no one seriously hurt.
Baptiste did many raids until 1697 when he was made prisoner in Boston. He was treated very cruel, they even tried to poison him. Freed in 1698 he continued attacking the English Vessels who were fishing illegally. In 1702 he was captured again until 1706. They wanted to hang him as a Pirate.He was later traded for the release of Reverend John Williams who was captured by the Native Americans in a raid.
Well this is it for today, thank you for the visit , do stop by soon ( I really need my cuppa coffee) grin.
Have a great day
Aline
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Tragic Romance
Here is a story I got from a Our Newfoundland, by Larry Bourne:
The famous explorer Jacques Cartier was making his last voyage along the Gulf of St Lawrence. Among the crew and passengers was a man named Roberval, along with his niece Marguerite. She was extremely beautiful and headstrong,as event later proved.
During the long days at sea, bored by the inactivity, Marguerite struck up a friendship with an ordinary deckhand who was very handsome and had lots of charm.
The friendship grew into a full blown romance. The two young lovers met secretly whenever possible. Within the close confines of the little ship, it was a secret destined to be discovered.
When Roberval learned of their affair, he flew in a rage. Filled with anger and mortified that his niece would fall in love with someone so far beneath her station,Roberval insisted that the young man be marooned on an island thought to be off the coast of Newfoundland.
His plan backfired, however, when Marguerite ,headstrong as ever, went ashore with her lover.
Sadly there is no happy ending. The young man died shortly after. Marguerite was rescued and entered a convent. She died within a few years. The victim ,some say died of a broken heart.
I don't think I would have jumped ship and went ashore, not fond of snakes and mice. grin.
Have a great day, thanks for stopping by
Aline
The famous explorer Jacques Cartier was making his last voyage along the Gulf of St Lawrence. Among the crew and passengers was a man named Roberval, along with his niece Marguerite. She was extremely beautiful and headstrong,as event later proved.
During the long days at sea, bored by the inactivity, Marguerite struck up a friendship with an ordinary deckhand who was very handsome and had lots of charm.
The friendship grew into a full blown romance. The two young lovers met secretly whenever possible. Within the close confines of the little ship, it was a secret destined to be discovered.
When Roberval learned of their affair, he flew in a rage. Filled with anger and mortified that his niece would fall in love with someone so far beneath her station,Roberval insisted that the young man be marooned on an island thought to be off the coast of Newfoundland.
His plan backfired, however, when Marguerite ,headstrong as ever, went ashore with her lover.
Sadly there is no happy ending. The young man died shortly after. Marguerite was rescued and entered a convent. She died within a few years. The victim ,some say died of a broken heart.
I don't think I would have jumped ship and went ashore, not fond of snakes and mice. grin.
Have a great day, thanks for stopping by
Aline
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
MEMORIES
Yesterday I went to sit with Mom, she had an accident and is confined to a wheel chair at the moment, so I was asked to go sit with her for a while. And everytime I go visit her, or nearly everytime , we always talk about the past.
Now she was telling me her cousin Augustine Pitre and his brother Henry had a little Bull, and they trained that bull. Mom said they would take him into the woods and tie some logs or branches to him and say Git and the bull would go home, but ,Mom said, when that bull decided he was not going anywhere, he didn't go. grin.
Then I told Mom, I was getting the death records for her grandfather Amand who died in Notre Dame, I had been wanting to get them for a while, and soon they will be arriving. Mom said" yes grandfather died as the result of an accident, he was pulling tree stumps from the ground and one caught him in the stomach somehow and he died." So possibly his death will say internal bleeding. I am anxious to get the death record. His wife Rose died from pneumonia later at the age of 67, so she died in 1921 he died in 1913 so he had to have been quite young.
Now I am a very lucky lady, because my mother will be 91 on her birthday and she still has a great memory. And I have received so many little stories from her about her youth and growing up. She told me, that when my grandfather died, my grandmother was left with seven kids at home, Mom was newly married and my grandmother had a three month old baby, and she worked doing housework for others and it came to a time that she just could not take care of seven kids so she put them in an orphanage. And my Mom and Dad took them all out one by one. It must have been hard for my grandmother at that time, and it was so good of my Mom to take them out. One of my aunts who has since passed away was like a sister to us, she was always at our home, as we were growing up.
Aw, memories are good to share with others, memories are a thing that should be noted, written down, added to our family trees. So if you have grandparents even your parents or aunts ,uncles, cousins who can share their memories, then take a little drive to see them, phone them, talk to them , as I said before ,once they are gone, so are their memories.
Hope you enjoyed today's blog and I hope you will stop by again. Oh and I see I have 20 followers, getting close to my first quota of 25. Thank you everyone
Have a great day.
Aline
Now she was telling me her cousin Augustine Pitre and his brother Henry had a little Bull, and they trained that bull. Mom said they would take him into the woods and tie some logs or branches to him and say Git and the bull would go home, but ,Mom said, when that bull decided he was not going anywhere, he didn't go. grin.
Then I told Mom, I was getting the death records for her grandfather Amand who died in Notre Dame, I had been wanting to get them for a while, and soon they will be arriving. Mom said" yes grandfather died as the result of an accident, he was pulling tree stumps from the ground and one caught him in the stomach somehow and he died." So possibly his death will say internal bleeding. I am anxious to get the death record. His wife Rose died from pneumonia later at the age of 67, so she died in 1921 he died in 1913 so he had to have been quite young.
Now I am a very lucky lady, because my mother will be 91 on her birthday and she still has a great memory. And I have received so many little stories from her about her youth and growing up. She told me, that when my grandfather died, my grandmother was left with seven kids at home, Mom was newly married and my grandmother had a three month old baby, and she worked doing housework for others and it came to a time that she just could not take care of seven kids so she put them in an orphanage. And my Mom and Dad took them all out one by one. It must have been hard for my grandmother at that time, and it was so good of my Mom to take them out. One of my aunts who has since passed away was like a sister to us, she was always at our home, as we were growing up.
Aw, memories are good to share with others, memories are a thing that should be noted, written down, added to our family trees. So if you have grandparents even your parents or aunts ,uncles, cousins who can share their memories, then take a little drive to see them, phone them, talk to them , as I said before ,once they are gone, so are their memories.
Hope you enjoyed today's blog and I hope you will stop by again. Oh and I see I have 20 followers, getting close to my first quota of 25. Thank you everyone
Have a great day.
Aline
Sunday, March 01, 2009
Bergeron dit Damboise
If you are wondering what the image on right is, well I
will tell you. First of all I have been doing genealogy
since 1976 and I had always believed that Barthelemy
Bergeron dit Damboise was a son of Antoine Bergeron
and Catherine Scarron. Apparently there was a lady who went to France and she said that the father was
Antoine Bergeron. But no records has ever been found
saying Antoine and Catherine had a son named
Barthelemy Bergeron. A few years ago, professor
Marius Damboise from Montreal went to Amboise France and did some research, he searched the
St Denis parish records in Amboise France and
one nice sunny day he found a baptism of a
Barthelemy Bergeron born in May 23 1663 a son of
Rene Bergeron and Anne Dagault. He searched to find
another Barthelemy Bergeron born there, he found none. Now in July 2009 we are holding a Bergeron -Damboise reunion in Fredericton New Brunswick to honor our ancestor, because that is where he spent his final years. So I decided to write to the Mairie of Amboise to see if he would write us some kind of letter to read at our reunion. He did better than that, he sent me the copy of the birth of Barthelemy Bergeron ,the one you see above. He said they did a search in the records and could not find anything else on this family. As you can see the paper is turning yellow, think about it, the records are back in 1663. A truly good thing to share with everyone before the records dissappear. Now if I could only find the marriage of Rene Bergeron and Anne Dagault, where did they marry? Maybe Anne Dagault came from Nantes, remember Michel took the name of Michel dit Nantes. Also two daughters of Barthelemy and Genevieve were named Marie Anne and Anne Marie, were they named after Anne Dagault?
Maybe one day someone will find the marriage of Rene and Anne, since many France parish records are not being added on line.
Plans are going along quite well for our reunion, if the weather cooperates we will be fine, on the 18th we are all meeting at O'dell Park around noon, then the 19th we are having a Mass said, and then we are meeting at the Sainte Anne Community Hall . We have some important guests who are suppose to attend, we will have speeches, and prizes and a small lunch. There will be picture taking, and meeting new cousins. Some are coming from as far as Louisiana, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Maine, Mass, Quebec, Ontario etc. So I am looking forward to meeting new cousins.
My great grandfather Bergeron-Damboise lived in the country and once a month he and his brother would come to town, and go to a grocery store and run up a tab, they would buy their groceries and pay when their pays came in. And back then a can of lobster sold for fifteen cents, can you imagine? Today we are lucky if we get a cold pack for 20 dollars.
Well that is it for today, thanks for the visit, and I see I have reached 20 followers, can I make my first quoto of 25? Time will tell.
Have a great day
Aline
Saturday, February 28, 2009
The Great Acadian Escapes.
First of all the source for the photo of the Fort is the Department of National Defence.
The reason I chose it ,is to give you some kind of idea about our Acadian ancestors being held prisoners there.
As you know many of the Acadians were captured by the British and held as prisoners in their forts. Imagine what it would be like, separated from your love ones, not knowing what will become of you. All the men could think of ,was to escape from their captors. Some Acadians even escaped from ships, such as the case of when Winslow ordered some transport ships to carry some prisonners away, instead of transport ships he received supply ships. He decided to fill five ships with Acadians, he wanted to keep the families together as much as possible, anyway there were 24 men who escaped and a Francois Hebert was charged as the instigator and Winslow ordered him brought to shore and watch while they burned his house and barn. Out of the 24 men , 22 surrendered and two were killed.
Now back to the Acadians who escaped from the Forts. If you go to my acadian-roots website and click on my Cormier genealogy, I added about Pierre Cormier aka Pierrot son of Pierre and Cecile Thibodeau who escaped with his brother Jacques by disguising themselves as women.
The women were allowed to visit their sons or husbands and they would bring them in clothing and breads and sometimes tools or knives. So Pierre and Jacques just walked out of the Fort as women, once they were out, they watched as the Sentinel turned his back and they ran for the Dykes and they crossed the dykes by grasping one branch then another until they were across. Once they were across, they watched as the Sentinel turned away and ran into the woods.
You have to remember that the Acadians knew their way into the woods, they probably had shortcuts the English never knew about.
On October first 1755 Dr.John Thomas wrote in his diary: "Storms dark night eighty six French Prisoners dug under ye wall att Foart Lawrence and got clear underdiscovered by ye Centry.(Father D'Entrement article).
Well on October 1 1755, during a really bad thunderstorm Beausoleil and 86 Acadian Prisoners in Fort Lawrence escaped by digging a tunnel under the prison wall. Now the women had to be careful what they smuggled in, so spoons, knives, and small tools is probably what they brought. The men would take turns at night and dig a tunnel under the ground using whatever they had. They would pile the dirt under the beds. When the time came for their escape the men went out in order of their size, the smallest man to the biggest .Each would squeeze through the hole to make it bigger for the next man. The last one out is said to be Rene Richard (Petit Rene) son Rene Richard and Marguerite Theriot husband of Perpetue Bourgeois who would have been 29 years old. He was the biggest man of the prisoners. Joseph Broussard .some of his sons and nephews were also among the ones who escaped.
Another eighty Acadians escaped on Feb.26 1756 from Fort Beausejour. These prisoners were fed horse meat and at the request of Pierre Surette son of Pierre and Jeanne Pellerin, the men saved the rib bones which they hid from their captors. At night they would dig with these bones to make a tunnel to escape. Can you imagine all the work and time this took? Imagine with a bone digging a tunnel big enough to go through? So the day arrived for their escape, they did the same , by letting the smallest man out first and making the hole bigger for the next man. The last one out was Pierre Melanson ,he was the biggest, and he got stuck in the middle of the tunnel. Receiving help from the other prisoners he got out just in time to flee into the forests with the other prisoners. They knew which path to take as where the English didn't know their way into the woods. These men stayed nearby in the woods, ate whatever they could find but food was scarce it was in the winter and the cold and hunger made them head out towards Miramichi where the situation was no better and they surrendered in 1759.
We have to give our ancestors credit, they were survivors. I am sure there were many more such great escapes , and events that we will never know about them.
I hope you enjoyed reading todays blog and these are things to write down along with our ancestors and their history.
Changing the subject, I was telling you we were on our way to look at a tent? Well we bought it, it is a two room tent, so we will have room to put our cooler inside and maybe some chairs, at least we hope so. The tent is quite big. So we will be much more comfortable when we set up camp for two weeks for the CMA2009. If any of you readers want to meet me and my genealogy group, let me know, and I will fill you in on where and when. We think we will all meet August 15th on Acadian Day.
Also if you have any ancestors who link up to Barthelemy Bergeron and Genevieve Serreau dit St Aubin and want to attend our reunion in July in Fredericton let me know.
Thanks for the visit,
Have a great day
Aline
Friday, February 27, 2009
Acadians after the Deportation
The following is from the book the Acadians by Henri D Parette, I wanted to share it with you.
Acadians who came back to the Maritimes, came out of the woods or were released from prison camps faced a depressing and seemingly impossible situation. Their lands had been taken by the New England Planters, Loyalists or other Protestant settlers, their rights were of small concern to authorities and they had little material wealth.
Primarily farmers before the Expulsion, most Acadians had to become fishermen after in order to survive. And most were no longer their own masters but moved into a seemingly endless cycle of work and debt, as fisheries around the Gulf of St Lawrence ,from Cheticamp,to Gaspe were controlled through the 19th century by others particularly les Jersias, traders fromthe island of Jersey who had as British citizens, a monopoly on credit and the labour market. As early as 1763 Jacques Robin, a French Protestant from Jersey, convinced Acadians to go to the Miramichi area to work for him as fishermen in the Gulf of St Lawrence.
For most the sea became their life to earn a living and it gave Acadian villages a most characteristic layout, with a wharf in the middle where people would gather and where women would wait for their men to return, although many men never returned from the sea, making this a source of life and a source of tragedy.
Acadian regions took on a unique appearance, rows of small houses, usually white but sometimes painted in bright colors, long roads close to the water and a church
in the middle of the village.
Acadian women must have been as strong as the men. They gave birth to large families, and the Acadian population grew faster than the anglophone.
In the Memramcook Valley, a pleasant and fertile agricultural region,the Acadians tried to recreate the life they had known before the Expulsion. In 1765 a small group of refugees from Fort Beausejour came to that region, which had already been dyked by Acadians, and settled on the west side of the river. They were joined in 1770 by Acadians who had been prisoners for 12 years at Fort Edward in Windsor. Most of the latter settled on the west bank, son on the east Landry,Richard,Breau,LeBlanc,Comeau,Dupuis and Bourgeois.
In 1781 the first parish to be established after the Deportation was created at Memramcook.
And the story goes on, so if you have a chance to buy or borrow the book The Acadians I would recommend reading it.
Well we are on our way, to see about buying a two room tent, I sure hope it will be what we want. If any of you live in an area where you can buy and sell from Kijji Classifieds, well if you are looking for something, that is the place to go. There are good bargains to be had.
We want our tent so that we can be more comfortable when we go to the CMA2009 in Caraquet New Brunswick this summer. We have a one room tent, but it is awful small, so we want to get a more comfortable and roomy one. Last summer we went to Quebec with the tent we have now, it was ok, it served the purpose, but we are now getting greedy , we want something better. grin.
There are not too many days left for the CMA2009, and in July we go to another reunion in Fredericton, but there we will not be tenting, we have our motel room reserved, and it is only a two day event, the CMA2009 is a two week event, we want to be there for Aug.15 Acadian Day and to try and participate in as many reunions as we can and also we want to meet our Cajun Cousins.
I would like to mention that my friend Rick Arsenault has started a blog , so if you want to check his out, I am a follower of his.
Have a great day, Thanks for the lovely visit.
Aline
Acadians who came back to the Maritimes, came out of the woods or were released from prison camps faced a depressing and seemingly impossible situation. Their lands had been taken by the New England Planters, Loyalists or other Protestant settlers, their rights were of small concern to authorities and they had little material wealth.
Primarily farmers before the Expulsion, most Acadians had to become fishermen after in order to survive. And most were no longer their own masters but moved into a seemingly endless cycle of work and debt, as fisheries around the Gulf of St Lawrence ,from Cheticamp,to Gaspe were controlled through the 19th century by others particularly les Jersias, traders fromthe island of Jersey who had as British citizens, a monopoly on credit and the labour market. As early as 1763 Jacques Robin, a French Protestant from Jersey, convinced Acadians to go to the Miramichi area to work for him as fishermen in the Gulf of St Lawrence.
For most the sea became their life to earn a living and it gave Acadian villages a most characteristic layout, with a wharf in the middle where people would gather and where women would wait for their men to return, although many men never returned from the sea, making this a source of life and a source of tragedy.
Acadian regions took on a unique appearance, rows of small houses, usually white but sometimes painted in bright colors, long roads close to the water and a church
in the middle of the village.
Acadian women must have been as strong as the men. They gave birth to large families, and the Acadian population grew faster than the anglophone.
In the Memramcook Valley, a pleasant and fertile agricultural region,the Acadians tried to recreate the life they had known before the Expulsion. In 1765 a small group of refugees from Fort Beausejour came to that region, which had already been dyked by Acadians, and settled on the west side of the river. They were joined in 1770 by Acadians who had been prisoners for 12 years at Fort Edward in Windsor. Most of the latter settled on the west bank, son on the east Landry,Richard,Breau,LeBlanc,Comeau,Dupuis and Bourgeois.
In 1781 the first parish to be established after the Deportation was created at Memramcook.
And the story goes on, so if you have a chance to buy or borrow the book The Acadians I would recommend reading it.
Well we are on our way, to see about buying a two room tent, I sure hope it will be what we want. If any of you live in an area where you can buy and sell from Kijji Classifieds, well if you are looking for something, that is the place to go. There are good bargains to be had.
We want our tent so that we can be more comfortable when we go to the CMA2009 in Caraquet New Brunswick this summer. We have a one room tent, but it is awful small, so we want to get a more comfortable and roomy one. Last summer we went to Quebec with the tent we have now, it was ok, it served the purpose, but we are now getting greedy , we want something better. grin.
There are not too many days left for the CMA2009, and in July we go to another reunion in Fredericton, but there we will not be tenting, we have our motel room reserved, and it is only a two day event, the CMA2009 is a two week event, we want to be there for Aug.15 Acadian Day and to try and participate in as many reunions as we can and also we want to meet our Cajun Cousins.
I would like to mention that my friend Rick Arsenault has started a blog , so if you want to check his out, I am a follower of his.
Have a great day, Thanks for the lovely visit.
Aline
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Acadian Families
I was reading about the Acadians by Bona Arsenault today and wanted to share some of it with you. I am translating it so I hope it will be satisfactory and interesting.
The first census of the colony, the one in 1671, was taken by Father Laurent Molin before the arrival in the spring of the first contingent of french settlers arriving from France to Acadie after the english occupation. Therefore there were 59 heads of families consisting of 320 people in Port Royal.
Elsewhere around the Canso Strait lived families of which the majorities were metis issued from the Biencourt and Latour companies who had arrived in Acadie in 1610. More census would be kept for Acadie and thus we could keep count in the population increase. The 1686 census gives us 885 persons, 1693 gives us 1068 persons, 1707 gives us 1484 and the census of 1714 gives us 2500 habitants.
In all evidence, there were no families in the contingent of the 300 men who accompanied Rozilly from France to Acadie in 1632, nor none in the group that left Dieppe in March 1633 where the Gazette de Renaudot announces the departing for Acadie.It is only in 1636 that the present of french families is mentioned in Acadie.
We know that Charles de Menou sieur of d'Aulnay got his noble name from the village of Aulnay in Loudunais province of Vienne, where he and his mother possessed many domains including the villages of Angliers,Aulnay, Martaize and possibly La Chaussee.
Thanks to the great research undertook in France by Genevieve Massignon , she found out that many french families who came to Acadie in 1636 to 1650 were originally from the villages mentioned above. She wrote that she found many same surnames as the Acadians who had left there in 1636. Which leads others to believe that Charles de Menou had at that time installed twenty french families from his area in Port Royal.After examining the parish registers of La Chaussee ,Genevieve wrote that more than half the acts form 1626 to 1650 concerned surnames that we find among the 53 Acadians in the 1671 census of Acadie. Babin, Belliveau,Bertrand,Bour,Brault,Brun,Dugast,Dupuy,Gaudet,Giroire,Joffriau,Landry,LeBlanc,Morin,Poirier,
Rimbault,SAvoie,Thibodeau,Chevrat,Gautier,Guion,Lambert and Mercier,Terriot. The seigneurie of Aulnay also included the commune of Martaize in Vienne, if we judge by the surnames of the women who married before going to Acadie, the ancestors of Aucoin,Boudrot,Doucet, and Lejeune would also come from this region.
This is just part of what I read, I do hope you have enjoyed it or learned from it.
Today I went to the genealogy center ,"centre d'etude acadienne". That genealogy center has so much stuff, I have been going there since 1976 and each time I go, there is tons of stuff I have never read or never knew it was even there. That is my second home, there I can go and relax, and dig to my hearts content, as I am researching or helping others, I keep looking for some new information on my own ancestors too.
Everyone should know who they are and where they come from, that is what we call history or rather what we should call Our family history.
Thanks for stopping by, and do come again.
Have a great day
Aline
The first census of the colony, the one in 1671, was taken by Father Laurent Molin before the arrival in the spring of the first contingent of french settlers arriving from France to Acadie after the english occupation. Therefore there were 59 heads of families consisting of 320 people in Port Royal.
Elsewhere around the Canso Strait lived families of which the majorities were metis issued from the Biencourt and Latour companies who had arrived in Acadie in 1610. More census would be kept for Acadie and thus we could keep count in the population increase. The 1686 census gives us 885 persons, 1693 gives us 1068 persons, 1707 gives us 1484 and the census of 1714 gives us 2500 habitants.
In all evidence, there were no families in the contingent of the 300 men who accompanied Rozilly from France to Acadie in 1632, nor none in the group that left Dieppe in March 1633 where the Gazette de Renaudot announces the departing for Acadie.It is only in 1636 that the present of french families is mentioned in Acadie.
We know that Charles de Menou sieur of d'Aulnay got his noble name from the village of Aulnay in Loudunais province of Vienne, where he and his mother possessed many domains including the villages of Angliers,Aulnay, Martaize and possibly La Chaussee.
Thanks to the great research undertook in France by Genevieve Massignon , she found out that many french families who came to Acadie in 1636 to 1650 were originally from the villages mentioned above. She wrote that she found many same surnames as the Acadians who had left there in 1636. Which leads others to believe that Charles de Menou had at that time installed twenty french families from his area in Port Royal.After examining the parish registers of La Chaussee ,Genevieve wrote that more than half the acts form 1626 to 1650 concerned surnames that we find among the 53 Acadians in the 1671 census of Acadie. Babin, Belliveau,Bertrand,Bour,Brault,Brun,Dugast,Dupuy,Gaudet,Giroire,Joffriau,Landry,LeBlanc,Morin,Poirier,
Rimbault,SAvoie,Thibodeau,Chevrat,Gautier,Guion,Lambert and Mercier,Terriot. The seigneurie of Aulnay also included the commune of Martaize in Vienne, if we judge by the surnames of the women who married before going to Acadie, the ancestors of Aucoin,Boudrot,Doucet, and Lejeune would also come from this region.
This is just part of what I read, I do hope you have enjoyed it or learned from it.
Today I went to the genealogy center ,"centre d'etude acadienne". That genealogy center has so much stuff, I have been going there since 1976 and each time I go, there is tons of stuff I have never read or never knew it was even there. That is my second home, there I can go and relax, and dig to my hearts content, as I am researching or helping others, I keep looking for some new information on my own ancestors too.
Everyone should know who they are and where they come from, that is what we call history or rather what we should call Our family history.
Thanks for stopping by, and do come again.
Have a great day
Aline
Monday, February 23, 2009
ACADIA or ARCADIA.
The name of the new land of Acadie comes from one of the first explorers of the Atlantic Coast,Giovanni de Verrazzano,a captain from Florence,who had been sent to the new world by Francois1,King of France in 1524. Although Giovannie de Verrazzano did not enter the Bay of Fundy,he gave the name Arcadia to a stretch of coastline with beautiful forests. Very quickly the word grew to indicate on maps first the southeastern shores of Nova Scotia (the only part he had seen) and finally the entire Nova Scotia peninsula. After 1548 the maps carried the name Acadia instead of Arcadia.
Why did the French originally come to Acadie? The most obvious reason was economic. In the 17th century ,people in predominantly Catholic countries such as France were forbidden to eat meat for more than 160 days a year,so demand for fish was high. The most obvious choice was cod .There were plenty found on the banks of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, and in the gulf of St Lawrence. According to Champlain in 1618 it was possible to fish a million cod annually. The Parisians prefered salt cod,the Italians and Portuguese prefered dried cod. source: The Acadians by Henri-Dominique Paratte.
When the Acadians settled in Acadie, many of them relied on hunting for food.Wild game such as moose, deer, beavers,rabbits,bear,porcupine,raccoons, all kinds of birds,doves, ,pheasants,pigeons,ducks,partridge. Can you imagine how plentiful wild animals were? Although probably the native americans also hunted for their food, and possibly they must have given the Acadians some ideas of how to hunt and trap. The Native Americans had survived our cold winter seasons and they shared their knowledge of how to make winter clothing out of furs and hides with our ancestors. They must also have shown our ancestors what plants to eat, and what ones to use for medecin, how to make tools and maybe even show them how to trap.
Now when our ancestors relocated near the water, many turned to the sea for food, and again the oceans were abundant with fish, especially Cod, and they could eat all the delicacies ,lobster, scallops, clams, quahawgs,mussels, (gee I wish I could go back in time ,just long enough to eat all the good things.grin). So our ancestors did not want for food at the beginning, plus they had their chicken, hogs, cattle, their gardens, and their fruit trees and berries.
Can you imagine after the deportation, and when they were attacked and had to flee for their lives into the woods for long periods of time? Then the food was not as plentiful, the winter weather was ferocious, many starved to death and many froze to death. I sit back and think about this, and imagine how it must have been such a terrible time for them. We may wonder what happened to Joe Savoie, or Marie LeBlanc, or Isabelle Cormier ,and wonder why we cannot find any records of deaths, it could very well be possible that they died while fleeing their enemies and we will never ever know for sure except we know they deserve to rest in peace.
I do hope you have enjoyed today's blog and will return. I see I now have 13 followers, my first goal is to reach 25, can I do it?
Have a great day.
Aline
The name of the new land of Acadie comes from one of the first explorers of the Atlantic Coast,Giovanni de Verrazzano,a captain from Florence,who had been sent to the new world by Francois1,King of France in 1524. Although Giovannie de Verrazzano did not enter the Bay of Fundy,he gave the name Arcadia to a stretch of coastline with beautiful forests. Very quickly the word grew to indicate on maps first the southeastern shores of Nova Scotia (the only part he had seen) and finally the entire Nova Scotia peninsula. After 1548 the maps carried the name Acadia instead of Arcadia.
Why did the French originally come to Acadie? The most obvious reason was economic. In the 17th century ,people in predominantly Catholic countries such as France were forbidden to eat meat for more than 160 days a year,so demand for fish was high. The most obvious choice was cod .There were plenty found on the banks of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, and in the gulf of St Lawrence. According to Champlain in 1618 it was possible to fish a million cod annually. The Parisians prefered salt cod,the Italians and Portuguese prefered dried cod. source: The Acadians by Henri-Dominique Paratte.
When the Acadians settled in Acadie, many of them relied on hunting for food.Wild game such as moose, deer, beavers,rabbits,bear,porcupine,raccoons, all kinds of birds,doves, ,pheasants,pigeons,ducks,partridge. Can you imagine how plentiful wild animals were? Although probably the native americans also hunted for their food, and possibly they must have given the Acadians some ideas of how to hunt and trap. The Native Americans had survived our cold winter seasons and they shared their knowledge of how to make winter clothing out of furs and hides with our ancestors. They must also have shown our ancestors what plants to eat, and what ones to use for medecin, how to make tools and maybe even show them how to trap.
Now when our ancestors relocated near the water, many turned to the sea for food, and again the oceans were abundant with fish, especially Cod, and they could eat all the delicacies ,lobster, scallops, clams, quahawgs,mussels, (gee I wish I could go back in time ,just long enough to eat all the good things.grin). So our ancestors did not want for food at the beginning, plus they had their chicken, hogs, cattle, their gardens, and their fruit trees and berries.
Can you imagine after the deportation, and when they were attacked and had to flee for their lives into the woods for long periods of time? Then the food was not as plentiful, the winter weather was ferocious, many starved to death and many froze to death. I sit back and think about this, and imagine how it must have been such a terrible time for them. We may wonder what happened to Joe Savoie, or Marie LeBlanc, or Isabelle Cormier ,and wonder why we cannot find any records of deaths, it could very well be possible that they died while fleeing their enemies and we will never ever know for sure except we know they deserve to rest in peace.
I do hope you have enjoyed today's blog and will return. I see I now have 13 followers, my first goal is to reach 25, can I do it?
Have a great day.
Aline
Well I have received my first blog award from Evelyn Yvonne Theriault at http://acanadianfamily.com/ , I want to thank her for such a nice award. You can visit her blog at the above url. Now in return I was asked to nominate seven bloggers but since I am not too familiar on how to find other bloggers, I will nominate four for the Kreativ Blogger award. First I nominate Richard Bergeron for his great article on the Bergeron-Damboise family,it is really worth reading.His blog traces Barthelemy and his family from France to Quebec and Acadie. his blog is at http://bergeron-damboise.blogspot.com/ .
Second I nominate Velda Arsenault she has a nice blog on the Arsenault and Adair families. Her blog is at http://arsenaultadairfamily.blogspot.com/ .
Third I nominate Olive Tree Genealogy, this site is amazing, Lorine has worked so very hard on her blog and she also deserves this award, her blog is at
My last nomination goes to the Franco American Connection, I think they are doing a marvelous job. Their blog is at http://francoamericanconnection.blogspot.com/
To all winners please collect your Kreativ Blogger Award add it on your post and in return nominate seven other bloggers for this award.
On another note: I would like to mention that I have added some marriages from Shediac New Brunswick Canada on my website at http://www.acadian-roots.com/ , if you had ancestors living in the Shediac area in the early 1900s you can check to see if they are listed. I have not listed every single marriage but a big part of them. I also recently added some marriages of Saint Paul in Kent County. If even one of the couples I listed helps someone, then it was worth me adding them on my website.
Have a great day and thank you for the visit.
Aline
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Legends and superstitions among our ancestors were common, and sometimes believing them was pretty scary. I have the book Contes Legendes by Georges Arsenault .Mister Arsenault interviewed many of the local people of PEI .They shared stories brought down from the grandparents, and they shared songs they used to sing. What a beautiful thing to share with all of us. The book I have is in French , I shall translate one of the stories for you. I believe the story was shared with Mister Arsenault by Ozelie Boisvert. So have a cup of coffee and listen to the story she shared:
The lady in white:
This was a story that scared us all through our lifetime.We lived on lot 7 and we were the only catholics in the area and it seemed we were not wanted there. I don't know if this was true but I had heard it said. My sister who is now deceased was babysitting my younger brother one day and there was a lady taking care of me because my Mom was sick and mother had decided to come get me that day. My other sister who is still living was also at the house.It was a small house,the door was hard to open.It was so hard to close that it wore the floor down.It was in the spring and my sister remembers that the door opened and closed three times. She never saw anything, but my sister who has died saw a lady dressed in white enter into the house. My late sister said" there was something telling me to go to the door and you won't be afraid.Then she met the lady who brushed her with her veil three times and she moaned three times and then she left and dissappeared.
Then my sister said to my other sister"Go see if there is anyone around the house" B.ecause it was spring and there was mud they saw footprints.Then she said "Watch our brother , I will go meet mother she might still be sick."
Mother saw her coming and noticed how pale she was and asked her what happened. Your father didn't drown did he? They were always afraid. The daughter said " No there was a lady in white who came into the house. Then the daughter fainted. Then mother went and saw the priest and found out that another young woman saw the same thing in that same house.
We never slept there that night,we left and never returned. And that was the scare of our lifetime. When we would talk about the lady in white, everyone would be afraid. We would go to bed at night and at that time it was dark, and sometimes we would think we saw the lady in white and come downstairs in fear. The children all died the following spring and mother said she believes that all the moaning from the lady in white was a prediction , but she was very superstitious and it took us a long time to get that fear out of our system.
Was it superstition or was it a prediction?
Did I ever tell you about my late husband Gerry? Well he had Alzheimers and I was taking care of him at home , I had his bed in our front room, so he could look out the window and watch the birds and he could also watch the television. His sickness progressed and he could no longer walk or get up by himself. One day I was in the kitchen preparing his meal, and I always peaked around the corner to see if he was ok. This paticular day, I believe it was the end of June or first part of July, I peaked around the corner, and I saw him, he had a glow on his face and the most beautiful smile I had ever seen and he was half sitting in his bed and he had one of his arms stretched way out as if he was reaching, his eyes were focussed straight ahead as if he was seeing someone. When he saw me looking, he gently laid back and that was the only time I ever saw this. He passed away July 27th, and I honestly believe he did see someone or something.
Do you have any such stories or legends or supersticions you want to share?You can click on the comment at the bottom and share them with us.
I notice I now have 13 followers, I am slowly getting up to my first quoto of 25 followers, thank you for encouraging me to keep my blogs going.
Thank you for the visit and do stop by again.
Have a great day
Aline
The lady in white:
This was a story that scared us all through our lifetime.We lived on lot 7 and we were the only catholics in the area and it seemed we were not wanted there. I don't know if this was true but I had heard it said. My sister who is now deceased was babysitting my younger brother one day and there was a lady taking care of me because my Mom was sick and mother had decided to come get me that day. My other sister who is still living was also at the house.It was a small house,the door was hard to open.It was so hard to close that it wore the floor down.It was in the spring and my sister remembers that the door opened and closed three times. She never saw anything, but my sister who has died saw a lady dressed in white enter into the house. My late sister said" there was something telling me to go to the door and you won't be afraid.Then she met the lady who brushed her with her veil three times and she moaned three times and then she left and dissappeared.
Then my sister said to my other sister"Go see if there is anyone around the house" B.ecause it was spring and there was mud they saw footprints.Then she said "Watch our brother , I will go meet mother she might still be sick."
Mother saw her coming and noticed how pale she was and asked her what happened. Your father didn't drown did he? They were always afraid. The daughter said " No there was a lady in white who came into the house. Then the daughter fainted. Then mother went and saw the priest and found out that another young woman saw the same thing in that same house.
We never slept there that night,we left and never returned. And that was the scare of our lifetime. When we would talk about the lady in white, everyone would be afraid. We would go to bed at night and at that time it was dark, and sometimes we would think we saw the lady in white and come downstairs in fear. The children all died the following spring and mother said she believes that all the moaning from the lady in white was a prediction , but she was very superstitious and it took us a long time to get that fear out of our system.
Was it superstition or was it a prediction?
Did I ever tell you about my late husband Gerry? Well he had Alzheimers and I was taking care of him at home , I had his bed in our front room, so he could look out the window and watch the birds and he could also watch the television. His sickness progressed and he could no longer walk or get up by himself. One day I was in the kitchen preparing his meal, and I always peaked around the corner to see if he was ok. This paticular day, I believe it was the end of June or first part of July, I peaked around the corner, and I saw him, he had a glow on his face and the most beautiful smile I had ever seen and he was half sitting in his bed and he had one of his arms stretched way out as if he was reaching, his eyes were focussed straight ahead as if he was seeing someone. When he saw me looking, he gently laid back and that was the only time I ever saw this. He passed away July 27th, and I honestly believe he did see someone or something.
Do you have any such stories or legends or supersticions you want to share?You can click on the comment at the bottom and share them with us.
I notice I now have 13 followers, I am slowly getting up to my first quoto of 25 followers, thank you for encouraging me to keep my blogs going.
Thank you for the visit and do stop by again.
Have a great day
Aline
Friday, February 20, 2009
Snow snow go away ,and come back another day? Well yesterday we had that white stuff again. We stayed home, and were nice and comfy in a nice warm place. Around 1030 pm, the phone rings. "Hello, this is the superintendant, the snowplow is on his way, can you move your car?" Well, I was not really in a mood to go out in this weather, but we both donned our boots,coats, and gloves and out to the car we went. Well the car was covered with snow, so we first had to clean the car. And the street plow had gone by and made a big snow bank, right behind our car. Grrrrr. There is no way that my little saturn would go through that pile of snow. We had no shovel, so I went in back of the car and started kicking the snow with my feet. Didn't I hit a patch of ice beneath the snow, my feet went in the air and my backside to the ground. Oh winter is soooooooo much fun. My ego was hurt, there were people getting their cars cleaned out , to move them, around me. OH what will they think of me? How embarassing,Aline fell down . I thought , I won't let it get the best of me, so I proudly got up, took a few gulps and then I said, "It happens". But the car was still not out onto the road, so George was behind the wheel, and I said Ok, I will push the car. So to the front of the car I went. I can do it, I said to myself. Puff, Puff, Push, Push. Another patch of ice, oh no! Down I go again. 'This was getting to be a habit". Where are those little boys who used to come shovel us out for one dollar??? No one around. But someone must like me , because all of a sudden our neighbors came to the rescue, and they pushed my car through the snow bank and into the road. What a relief!. Well you must know where we went while we were waiting to have the yard cleared . Yes you are correct. Tim Hortons here we come.
Changing the subject, I had been looking for the death of my great grandmother for a long time and I could not find her, she is not listed in the parish records. Finally I got a break and found her listed under Rosie and not Rose ,in the provincial archives, and Mom told me that when she died my grandmother just had a baby and could not go to the funeral, but she got out of bed when she was not suppose to, and watched the hearse go past her house, she said I cannot go to the funeral but I will see Mom go by. I checked Mom's story, and she was absolutely correct, Rose died December 4, my aunt was born Dec 6 and Rose was buried Dec.7. I received the death records for Rose, she died at the age of 67 of pneumonia. They say 'things comes to those who wait" ,well that is correct, it took me close to thirty years to find the death of my great grandfather but I finally did.
I am working on my website, and helping organize our Bergeron-Damboise Reunion, and moving . We are moving two doors down from my Mom, that will be a good thing, if she needs us we will be close by. She is doing pretty good, she told me it doesnt hurt as much when she moves around.
Well I do hope you enjoyed my blog. Please stop by again.Thank you.
Have a great day.
Aline
Changing the subject, I had been looking for the death of my great grandmother for a long time and I could not find her, she is not listed in the parish records. Finally I got a break and found her listed under Rosie and not Rose ,in the provincial archives, and Mom told me that when she died my grandmother just had a baby and could not go to the funeral, but she got out of bed when she was not suppose to, and watched the hearse go past her house, she said I cannot go to the funeral but I will see Mom go by. I checked Mom's story, and she was absolutely correct, Rose died December 4, my aunt was born Dec 6 and Rose was buried Dec.7. I received the death records for Rose, she died at the age of 67 of pneumonia. They say 'things comes to those who wait" ,well that is correct, it took me close to thirty years to find the death of my great grandfather but I finally did.
I am working on my website, and helping organize our Bergeron-Damboise Reunion, and moving . We are moving two doors down from my Mom, that will be a good thing, if she needs us we will be close by. She is doing pretty good, she told me it doesnt hurt as much when she moves around.
Well I do hope you enjoyed my blog. Please stop by again.Thank you.
Have a great day.
Aline
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