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Your French-Canadian Genealogy Podcast

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Nov012016

MSS-055-Tracking Your Ancestor Back to Québec

French-Canadian genealogy is easy, right? Within hours, a knowledgeable genealogist can trace his or her ancestry from 21st-century America or Canada back to 16th- or 17th-century France. Usually. We all have a line or two that gives us trouble–an ancestor who shows up in the US from who-knows-where. Today’s...

Feb182014

MSS-006-Tanguay and Its Supplement

If you have spent any time at all in the French-Canadian genealogy section of a library, you have seen the seven-volume set of books known simply by the author’s surname, the Tanguay. These books contain the baptisms, marriages, burials, and constructed families from 1608-1700. At least, the ones that Cyprien Tanguay...