Saurette and Oligny Genealogy

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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I did a couple of minor updates to some reports on the site this AM. I received an e-mail today that corrected a couple dates that I had and also added a name here and there. The report in question is the descendant report of Jacques Saurette and his wife, Marguerite. For [...]

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Here is the extract for Joseph Saurette:

Notice the entry is titled Sauret-Larose. Here’s a great example showing how Larose is a ‘dit’ name for more than one surname. This screen shot:

was taken from the same register as Joseph’s entry. There aren’t any entries under the Larose heading either - you need to go to [...]

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Recently, I have received a few e-mails concerning some of the people in my genealogical database. There is some confusion out there about which last name was used by whom and when they used it. There are plenty of Saurettes out there, but also a lot of Larose/La Rose people as well.
Jacques Soret came to [...]

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