Tracing my Royal Bloodline

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Sorry no recent posts. I’ve been absorbed in tracing my royal bloodline. As most of those who read my site know that I love genealogy and history. I recently discovered that my family has a connection to the French Royal Family. Threw Catherine Baillion who came to Canada as part of a program to help populate New France.

Catherine ‘s family was a minor royal bloodline for a few generations because it was the daughters of daughters of royalty. But it dos connect into the Kings of France and ultimately with Charlemagne First Emperor of The Holy Roman Empire.

The Interesting thing as that one of her ancestors traces linage to some of the Emperors of the Byzantine Empire. So you can see the distraction. This is a genealogist’s fantasy come true. Of course this and $2.50 will buy you a cup of coffee.

Kings and Queens

Image via WikipediaI just got a part of my genealogy done by someone at The American French Genealogy society. According to this 49 page document I am related to Charlemagne Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire from whom where descended many Kings including Kings of France. According to this document which seems to be well documented my daughter who love to play princess may actually be related to real Princess.

My Visit to The American – French Genealogical Society

Saturday morning I got to visit The American – French Genealogical Society in Woonsocket, RI. I was incredible to see over 10,000 volumes of research material all under one roof. I felt like a kid in a candy store with so much to explore.

They had church records from all over Canada and areas of the United States were large concentrations of French Canadians lived. From what I understand they have one of the larges collections of French and French – Canadian research material in North America.

I can't wait to go back and continue my research if I can only convince Joy to let me go LOL. I intend to spend the $40.00 or so to join for a year. To Joy this is a crazy hobbies to me it is the most exciting adventure since getting married.

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Remembering my Mom

Well today would have been my mother Annette Theresa (Jean) Lunn's birthday. She would have been 68 years old today. I lost my mom on Nov 21, 2004. I was very close to my mother we were friends. To honor my mother I started a new blog profiling her ancestry. You can see a link to her profile below.

Just wanted to say happy birthday Mom. I love you and I miss you very much. I hope and pray you are save and sound in the arms of Jesus Christ in heaven. Mom even though you are gone you are not forgotten.

Genealogy Profile: Annette Theresa Jean
New Blog: French Canadian Roots

French Canadian Roots

Because I have been tracking my Step- Father Allen Linneaus Lunn and his family roots I decided to work on my Mother's side of the family along with real father Roger Turgeon. So I decided to start another blog to profile all the people on that side of the family.

The new blog name is French Canadian Roots. This blog will trace my ancestors who came to America, back threw Canada and hopefully all the way back to France. This will be challenging considering I don't speak French.

The families I am researching are: Jean, Ouellette, Turcutte, Michard, Mercier, Dube, Chaput, Turgeon, Lachance, and Silvestre.

Because this is the family photo album with lots of mystery people I decided to have a section showing some of these individuals. It is my hope that someone researching the same families will stumble across the sight and help identify some of those individuals.

The History of a New England Family

Because I have a passion for genealogy I created a new blog just for recording information about my Step Father Allen Linneaus Lunn and his family roots. This is an interesting family tree because it goes all the way back to the Mayflower. Allen was a descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins who both came to Plymouth in 1620 on the Mayflower. Shortly after coming to the New World they fell in love and where married.

What is also very interesting is that many of his ancestors were not far behind many came within the first 20 years of the establishment of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. This makes for a very rich and interesting genealogy. The name of the sight is " The History of a New England Family. "

I got the idea of this type of blog from Family Tree Magazine. They did an article on family tree blogs. This should be a fun blog for me to do.

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Preserving your Family History Part Four

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Find out about family past before the old die out. Do wait till your parents or grandparents are dead before you look at they past. Nothing will be more of a blessing to the senior citizens in your family then to take a brief interest in their lives. Sit down with them and help them label their photo albums. Help them make up a family bible type journal filled with info on their parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins just like you did for yourself.

Helping them take that trip down memory lane and giving them the knowledge that you are helping to preserve those memories will make a lot higher in their opinion. Besides you may find out very interesting info about your family.

Preserving your Family History Part Three

Keep a Family Bible type record. I know now one keeps a family bible anymore, but in the day if was how people kept track of births, deaths and marriages. It is a great idea to write down when you were born and where, when you where married and where. Write down similar info on your spouse, your siblings and your spouses’ siblings. Then when any new births, marriages or deaths take place record them as well.

Preserving your Family History Part Two

Label the pictures in the Photo Album. I inherited a photo album filled with pictures of my grandparents when they were young. There are lots of pictures of what might be their aunts, uncles, siblings, parents and even grandparents. I even have a photo so old it is on tin. I have a photo of a man in a Civil War uniform of the Union Army only I don’t know how he is. I am scanning all these photos to preserve but will not be able to identify over half of those in the pictures. Don’t let future generations lose out on this valuable info.

Having some simple index of who is who in each photo album will insure maintaining that person’s identity. When you pass away someday your children or grandchildren will not know that they are looking at you at 6 years old sitting on Uncle John’s lap. If you are not willing to do so you should take the photos with you in the coffin because the memory of those who have goon before you is lost forever.

Preserving your Family History - Part One

Image from WikipediaOne of my favorite hobbies is genealogy or the history of my family. There is so much to learn from digging into your families past. Joy thinks I’m crazy but to me it is fascinating. Unfortunately I waited till both my parents as well as grandparents had passed away. This of course made things more difficult. Shortly after my Mom died by aunt her sister developed Alzheimer’s and could even remember her grandmother’s maiden name. On my father’s side my father’s sister was way off in left field on what she thought the family history was.

Even if you are not into family history per say please realize that most likely someone in your family will start searching their family roots. It could be one of you children or grandchildren, it could be a niece or nephew or even yourself ten years from now. They may even have to do this for a school project someday. Don’t be the disappointing relative who is ignorant of your family background.

We all take pictures, video and keep keepsakes to preserve our memories. But we do a poor job of keeping those memories alive for the next generation. Often our memories die with us simply because we never thought of organizing things in away that will allow our children or great grandchildren to know what these symbols of our memories mean. In the next couple of posts I will discuss a few simple things that we can all do properly preserve the family history.