Welcome, and thank you for visiting Saurette.com. Here you will find an extensive repository of information about one-quarter of my family history. This site is concerned with the ancestors of my grandfather Roland Lawrence Oligny.
Roland's father had the Oligny surname and his mother's maiden name was Saurette. In fact, here's a photo of the happy couple that started my genealogy research: Marie-Anna Saurette and Joseph Philorum Oligny.
Last Upload of Database: February 3, 2010
Number of Individuals: 21,273
Number of Unique Surnames: 2,876
My name is Steve Rock. Please feel free to e-mail me at steve.rock@saurette.com with questions about what you see on this site or maybe about your own French-Canadian ancestry. My database contains thousands of French-Canadian surnames, and if you find yours, I might be able to shed some light on your family. If you're just casually browsing, then I hope you enjoy getting a glimpse at my immigrant family.
This site uses two different mysql driven programs to view the genealogy information I currently have. Make sure to check them out: phpGedView and Retrospect-GDS. You can access the databases from the top of any page on this site. I have sources for the majority of data on my site. If you'd like to know where I got the information, just drop me an e-mail and I'll get back to you.
Always Something - 5 February 2010
Funny how we all have certain assumptions when it comes to genealogy. We assume that if we’ve seen a name somewhere spelled a certain way, then that must be right. I can’t begin to remember how many times I have had to change/alter surnames in my genealogy. And some of those items I’ve had to change were done by individuals trying to do their best.
I have added some census images to Almeric Saurette and Guillaume Saurette’s pages. I also have updated the Drouin images under ‘deaths’ to reflect the latest images I have found. Seems like I always have something new to add or change of late. That’s okay, that is part of the fun. I’ve been having great correspondence lately with several people and said correspondence has taken me down paths I might not have bothered looking into. I think the excitement for me is chasing down things that have eluded others and knocking down those research walls. Keep the e-mails coming!
I continue to source information and merge duplicate people as I find them. Each time I upload my database to the site, it gets more and more accurate to reflect what I have been doing. If you have issues and/or problems with anything, just let me know so I may address them.
The Super Bowl is this weekend. I’m not really excited about either team. There’s always the commercials and the half-time show . . . . .
