Related to Joan d'Arc

Don’t Cry

         You just might be related to Joan D’Arc.

How could I possibly know this?

By doing my research of course.  

Then a little Birdie told me.

Plus Ancesrty.com used to have a super duper cool feature. 

Hint read my post titled: 

"I found another Prime Fun thing on Ancestry.com"

Then in discovering this link, Thank You to my sister partner in Crime GeGe.  Of course she found it not me. 

I'm so Happy, Happy she did.

Now back to Joan d’Arc I have Canadien French on my mothers family tree.

This connections is 4 stars!   Untill I prove it's incorrect I will enjoy the fun of it.

Through my Mom’s line Joan d’Arc is my Great Grand Aunt Sharing the 27^th Grandparent Isabella Romee De Voutron with her.

       A statue of Joan d'Arc mother Isabella Romee De Voutron (de Voutron means of Voutron).

     In my research from long ago I had felt I had a strong possibility of being related to Joan d’Arc since her family was in Angers France the same time as my line.  Current mis-information on Joan d'Arc has her from the northeast area of France. 

Internet can twist and turn your research form 10+ years ago.  My theory is to save the info print the info and to post on your own blog.  Then you have it recorded for your   

Happy Ancestor Hunting

"Early Ontario Settlers" by Crowder

A book for Ontario Descendant genealogy research.  If you are doing family history research and don't know where you family went during or right after the Revolution War.  Then you may want to take a look through this book.  It pretty much list out all The Butlers Rangers families & other Loyalist that went to Canada in the late 1783 - 1789.

My Van Valkenburg/Vollicks, Kiltz, Cooke, Hainer, Garter & Warner.

The Index in this book is wonderful.  Saves alot of time since it's done so well.

Who will you find in here?

Uncommon Names in My Genealogy

Names of the Very Uncommon Nature, The names you run across in Genealogy & their Origins.
 Part 1

Then one could ask "The name come from where?"

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   Zeruiah  A female name it’s origins are from the Bible,  There are a few in the Bible, David the King’s older sister, as well as a Ammon - King Nahash had a daughter named Zeruiah.
 Jesse from the tribe of Judah had a stepdaughter with the name.

Oh course I have a  Zeruiah Chaddock b. 1729

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   Barbe 
I have 5 Women in my genealogy with the first name of Barbe.  Of course if you a daughter who likes dolls you will know of Barbie. Spelled with an "I", still same name.  Although it appears to have a strong French influence I wonder how many other Barbes there are?  According to Wikipedia the name is as a last name.  Not a Given Name.  If you can enlighten me please do to the Barbe name origin. 

I have Barbe Girardeau b. 1599/1600 in France.  Her descendants carry her name on.

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  Ozanne 
Is it another given name that was first a Family Name?   In my genealogy I have Ozanne Jeanne Achon she was b. 1630 in France. She appears on the passanger list for 1657.  Her father is said to be Jean Achon.  She was one of the Kings daughters.  But she could of also been one of the Native American girls from the area that was being schooled by Nuns, baptized given a new “Christian Name” so they could marry the French men.

Never Give Up in Your Research

By never giving up you are endeavoring to bring about the real truth of your Family history.  Was Reba McIntire lucky or what.  All the great Genealogist & Historians helping her out.  If we all could have such help.  Probably 80% of us of European heritage would know exactly who we are even without DNA testing.

For example in my family lines.  I have French Ancestors that left France went over to the New World.  Every generation is documented along the way.  I have read several books containing this valuable information.    Once I was able to piece the back way generation with the forward generation Voila I had them. [ By the way it took a cousin John Baudet of NJ to direct me.  Thank goodness for cousins, does not matter how many times removed, yea Cousins.]  The way John found me, of course this is well before GenForum & Message boards, was by a LDS service where I sent in a small form that contained a Female ancestor name.  Along with my contact information.

I had not given up it was just a few years of waiting.  I have also had much luck with the message boards.  Have you!  You won't unless you add your information your seeking to a board.  These services are free. You can even have a email sent when there is a new post to that particular board.  by all means read through the instructions to see if you need to create a new board for the particular family name.

I started a board for a client.  It is a difficult challenge to find information when your not able to go in person.
The board is less then a year old.  It has connected some other cousins with each other.  But the search is still on for verifiable information.  As well as someone knowledgeable to help in the search.  I just know when the right person reads the post they will get back to me quickly.  The answer will be there.

I know theses days with the computer we can easily fill in a family tree in a day.  But we all know of the Brick Walls.  One thing I tell myself is that there is someone out there with that piece of info.  When will they contact me & pass it off to me?

Going forward in genealogy allows you to time travel.

Where do you Hail from?

Have you ever been asked where did your Ancestors come from?  
Sometimes the only time people may think of it is on the long Census questioner form.  I am not sure if they even had a long form in 2010 federal census.

This of course can cause great thinking for some folks.  
 My dad would sit at the dinner table going over and over where our ancestors were from.  
His list was so much shorter then what I have come to learn over the past few years.

My Dads list was:

French
Irish
Canadian French
Native American
 [he did not have the correct tribe at all]

My list for my fathers side is:
 German
 Basque
 Dutch
 English
 Scottish
 French
 Narragansett
Canadian French

My dad was close to 50% correct.  He was just missing all about his mom's side.
  Through my research I now know more then what I was told as a child