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1851 Canadian Census

I have been busy looking thru the scanned in images of from the Canadian Census of 1851. You cannot search by surname, but only by location. I scanned thru the St-Jean-Baptiste, Rouville, Quebec section looking for some Saurette people. I did find some and now I am putting the information together and [...]

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Saurette Ancestry

The Saurette family was very easy to research, mainly due to the fact of an existing document that already had the family traced back to the first Saurette who arrived in Canada. Thank you to my aunt who provided this document. I learned a lot of French in the process of translating this document. For [...]

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Oligny’s Assimilated

This morning I finally finished entering in all the Oligny marriages from St-Jean County CD. There were quite a few, but I pushed on thru to the end of the list. The easiest way to view the Oligny people in my genealogy is to view the descendant report of Jean Oligny. This [...]

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New CDs Have Arrived

When I received my new parish CDs yesterday, I wasn’t really sure if there would be much useful information on them as it pertained to my genealogy. Boy, was I wrong. There are A LOT of Olignys who got married in St-Jean county, Quebec. I have started putting them into my database, [...]

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