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Episode 091-February 1, 2020
This episode looks at a new Franco-based podcast, Claire-Marie Brisson’s North American Francophone Podcast. Many episodes present to genealogists the social history that affected our ancestors’ daily lives.
The North American Francophone Podcast
Claire-Marie and I discussed the following:
Claire-Marie began a podcast, the North American Francophone Podcast, during her fourth year of her PhD as a way to share all the tidbits she discovered during her research. She also enjoys when her listeners share their perspectives with her.
Claire-Marie grew up in a household that spoke French, although as an adult, she had to work at improving it.
Genealogists will enjoy the social history presented in many episodes of the North American Francophone Podcast. Here are some of the topics discussed:
Episode 1: Cooking in French Canada
Claire-Marie uses very early cookbooks to look at the types of foods our ancestors ate and how they prepared them.
Episode 2: First Attempt at Cooking Recipes from an 1840 French Canadian Cookbook
Claire-Marie tackles three recipes from an 1840 cookbook. She posted the soup recipe (and perhaps others in the future) throughout her social media (see below).
Episode 3: Giving Voice to Maine’s Acadian Music – An Interview with Robert Sylvain
Claire-Marie interviews Robert Sylvain who is translating lyrics of Acadian music from his grandmother’s notebook.
Episode 5: «Y fait frette!» – Adapting and Staying Warm in North America
This episode covers exactly what it says—how did our ancestors stay warm in the challenging Canadian climate?
Episode 6: “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?” – Franco-American Holiday Traditions
Claire-Marie explores some of the Christmas and New Years Day traditions in Franco households.
Claire-Marie has many plans for the future of her podcast, such as episodes on cultural histories, with authors of books on French-Canadian and French-American history, and more food history!
Claire-Marie online
You can find this podcast in Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and Spotify, or search for The North American Francophone Podcast in your favorite podcatcher.
Podcast website
Facebook page (recipe in Photos)
Twitter: @the_francophone
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Podcast support
Donations were made by the following wonderful folks:
Margie B. from Washington
Doris L. from Florida
Erik L. from Kansas
Maria B. from Massachusetts
Thank you, All, so much!
And Erik wrote a note saying that he loves the show notes and copied and pasted the segments about translating baptisms, marriages, and burials into a study guide. If you don’t regularly look at the show notes, check them out. There’s lots of valuable info there.
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Journal Rundown
The American-Canadian Genealogical Society’s American-Canadian Genealogist, issue #156, volume 45, number 3:
Act to Confer a Privilege upon Fathers or Mothers of Families Who Have Twelve Children Living: a program set up by the king to reward couples in New France who had large families
A look at the old-style and new style of dating by Pauline Cusson
Part 2 of Barbara LeBlanc’s article, Etoile d’Acadie: A Maine – Cape Breton Doucet Connection
TRM2020
We’re in the process of signing up people for our Trois-Rivière/Montreal 2020 tour in August of this year. We’re over half-way there. You can hear about all the wonderful places we’ll be visiting in episode 90, and there are links in the show notes to many of these places.
We always get a few couples to sign up for these trips. If they’re lucky, both spouses are genealogists. But often, the genealogist spouse drags the non-genealogist spouse along for the ride. Now these places are beautiful and you don’t have to be a genealogist to appreciate them. But if your spouse says, “Aw, honey, why don’t you go by yourself. You’ll have more fun without me,” rest assured that this is the trip for you!
You won’t be traveling alone. You’ll be traveling with family, because we’re all cousins. And because we plan and interact with each other ahead of time in the private Facebook group, you’ll feel like you know many fellow travelers personally before we even head out. If you live outside the New England area and need to fly in, Fred, the tour director, will help you out every step of the way.
So if you’ve always wanted to travel somewhere where you can walk in the footsteps of your ancestors and see what they saw, consider joining us. Everything you need to know is at maplestarsandstripes.com/trm2020.
French-Canadian News
The American-French Genealogical Society
February 2: Making Sense of DNA Endogamy with Dr. Adina Newman
February 16: Welcome to the Graveyard, an in-depth look at cemetery art, history and symbolism with Brenda Sullivan
Classes are held at the AFGS Library, 78 Earle Street, Woonsocket, RI, and begin at 1:30 PM (unless otherwise noted).
The Franco-American Centre
February 22, from 6-10 pm at Jupiter Hall in Manchester: annual Mardi Gras Celebration & Masquerade Ball
The French Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan
February 8, 11 AM, at the Mount Clemens Public Library: Experienced FCHSM members will be available to provide personalized research help for members who bring their charts and would like some assistance.
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