Dictionary of Americanized French-Canadian Names

MSS-003-French Pronunciation and Text-to-Speech Aids

When our French-Canadian ancestors left Québec and came to America, they began to generate records in an English-speaking system. Many clerks wrote their names phonetically. As a result, the names in American records often don’t come close to the actual spelling and can often be unrecognizable to an inexperienced...

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