Saurette and Oligny Genealogy

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: June 29, 2008
Number of Individuals: 16,143
Number of Unique Surnames: 2,426

My name is Steve Rock. Please feel free to e-mail me at srock@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, but both equally good, programs to view the genealogy information. Make sure to check them both out: phpGedView and Retrospect-GDS. You can access either database 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.

Getting More Work Done - 26 June 2008

I have found some time to get some more work done with the genealogy. Mainly, I have been cleaing up the database and sourcing things as I find them in the Drouin. It takes a long time to do that sort of work, but I am slowly plugging away.

There is some new data that I will mention - it is in the Voghel surname. I have been corresponding with another person about Charles Arthur Voghel and his ancestors, etc. While this is not my direct line, my Saurette line did marry into it. An interesting item from the Voghel line is that it was founded in Canada by Etienne Voghel. He was from Germany and fought in the Revolutionary War on the side of the British. After the war, he settled in Canada. Very interesting stuff.

In the near term, I will be re-running my .PDF reports regarding my Saurette and Oligny ancestry. Besides adding some people, I have added dates as well. Other than that, I continue on with the work - slow and steady.