Genealogy research and associated materials collected by Camille Bolduc, a past president of the York County Genealogical Society of Franco-Americans and a founder of LaKermesse. Includes 1 index card box of genealogy research cards, and a binder of featured family histories that were posted in the genealogy tent at LaKermesse festival from 1989-2005.
1690 Raymond Fortier, interviewed by Neolia Fortier, fall 1977, Lewiston, Maine. 3 pp. Tape: 1 hr. French. No cat, or trans. Genealogy of the Fortier family by Raymond Fortier. Text: no catalog or transcript. Recording: T 1811 1 hour French.
This collection primarily consists of genealogical materials collected by Leon Guimond on numerous families in Northern Maine and Canada. The collection contains materials on the following names: Albert; Beaupre; Blondeau; Bosse; Caron; Cayouette; Chasse; Clifford; Cote; Curtis; Cyr; Daigle; Demers; Deom; Deschenes; Drouin; Dube; Dubois; Dufour; Gagnon; Giguere; Guimond; Jean; Jimmo; Kovacs; Lagace; Landry; Leach; Martin; Michaud; Morin; Ouellette; Pellerin; Perrault; Plourde; Raymond; Rossignol; Roy; Saucier; Sirois; Soucy; Talbot family; Tallard family; Talon; Tanguay; Tardif; Tellier; Tessier; Tetreault; Theberge; Thibodeau; Violette; and Voisine. Also included in the collection are maps, images, newspaper clippings, and some personal materials, including correspondence.
This document is a photocopy facsimile of the nominal census of the population of the parish of Saint Bruno (Van Buren, Quebec) conducted by its resident priest, Father Pierre Stanislas Vallée in 1872. The census includes information about the location of the household, the names of its residents, their ages, the number of years of marriage of heads of household, birthplace, names of parents, occupation, and remarks. In addition, there are genealogical annotations by Guy F. Dubay of Madawaska, Maine. The cansus will be of interest to historical researchers and genealogists.
This collection consists of four notebooks of handwritten song lyrics by Elise Violette, as well as a page of Violette family genealogy created by Guy Dubay in 1992. The song lyrics are mostly in French, with some English. None of the songbooks are dated, although one has "Elise Violette, 19 years old" written faintly in pencil on the front cover, dating it circa 1910.
This collection consists of the diary of Anathalie Hébert Cyr, kept between approximately 1874 and 1885. In addition to personal entries on various social, religious, and family matters, the diary also includes transcripts and paraphrases of short stories, fables, and news articles. The diary contains entries in both french and english. Also inlcuded in the collection are photocopied portions of the diary, a Cyr family genealogy complied by Claudette Cyr, and digital copies of images depicting Nathalie Hébert Cyr, Marie Délina Cry Crotto, and a photograph of Simon H and Josette Daigle with Roger Paradis (UMFK professor)
Microfilm copy of 1851 population schedules for the parishes forming present-day Madawaska County, New Brunswick (also contains census information for Northumberland, Queens, Restigouche, Saint John, Sunbury, and Westmorland counties)
Genealogy of the Riberdy Family, compiled and typed by Margaret Powers' mother to record the genealogy of her mother, Melanie Riberdy Belanger, Margaret's grandmother. Melanie was from Ste. Melanie, QC. It is noteworthy that Alice was able to do this research and to type the genealogy in French because the girls in the family were educated. The boys, meanwhile, went to work, all of them for various mills in Cohoes with the exception of one who went to work for a railroad company. This reversal of gender expectations regarding schooling was unusual.
A deed for a parcel of land and the Wiley School House sold for $1.00 to Anthime Laurin by the Board of Education of the Chazy Central Rural School District.
Stories of family and ancestors who lived and worked in Cohoes (textile and garment workers, butchers and barbers), Waterford (canalers), Whitehall (farmers and canalers), Port Henry (iron miners and Civil War soldiers), Champlain (canalers and farmers) and other towns along the Champlain Canal in New York State with some diversions to the places they emigrated from....Quebec (landless farmers, shoemakers, sailors, soldiers), Acadia (more farmers), and even Cornwall, England (tin miners).
This material is a summary of the Amyot family history that was researched and written by Andre Amyot, his wife Peg, and son Bob in 2008. Although the research identifies many descendants over eleven generations, this summary includes only those who are in the direct line of the Amyot family that has its origins in France and Canada, and has been in Cohoes, New York since the 1850s.
This collection consists of genealogical and other historical files compiled by Jeanne Rousse and Louis Lavin to document the Graniteville section of Barre, Vermont. While the donors thought that Louis Lavin had created this collection, inspection of its content suggests that it was actually primarily created by his companion, Jeanne Rouse. Evidence within the collection suggests that Ms. Rouse intended to write a history of Graniteville. Although no manuscript history has been found, she was granted permission by Rock of Ages to reproduce photographs from 1912 for a history of Barre that she was writing. At some point Jeanne Rousse conducted a survey of Graniteville residents. The bulk of the files in the collection contain genealogical and biographical information about individuals and families in Graniteville, mostly in the form of clippings and notes. Additionally, many photographs (or reproductions of photographs), capturing a wide variety of subjects from family and individual portraits to businesses, are included in Ms. Rousse's files. Ms. Rousse's skill as a photographer allowed her to reproduce high-quality copy photographs of the family photos of her subjects. Ms. Rousse also created files documenting the people of different blocks, streets, and neighborhoods in Graniteville as well as the owners and employees of various businesses and quarries. In most cases, the contents of these files is biographical and is similar in nature to the files focused on entire families, but with an often greater focus on specific individuals and events. Several churches and schools are also documented.
Consists of seventeen typewritten index cards containing marriage information about Abraham and Adaline (Boardway) Lezer/Leazer, some of their nine children and several of their grandchildren. Also included are cards for the burial of Abraham Lezer/Leazer, and historical information about the town of Barton, Vermont, where the family lived in 1850. Also contains an undated, 18-page genealogical compilation created by Dorothy A. Lund Nelson (added 2020).
This collection of primary and secondary source material for the five towns of Grand Isle County includes letters, diaries, deeds, probate records, town records, vital records, cemetery inscriptions, biographies, genealogies, photographs, newspaper clippings, typescripts, and copies of manuscripts, contained in 251 binders, 47 folders, and 2 card files. The compiler, Allen L. Stratton, organized most of his Grand Isle County collection in loose-leaf binders, and the binder system has been retained. The bulk of the collection contains information on "Champlain Islands" families, with an additional 13 notebooks with information on French Canadian families. Other French Canadian related notebooks contain reference data and letters from Virginia Easely DeMarce, including two manuscripts, "Canadians in the American Revolution, " and "Pepin County, Wisconsin, settlers from Vermont." The collection also includes 23 notebooks relating to the Allen family of Deerfield, Massachusetts, and Grand Isle, Vermont. As well, the collection contains transcriptions of McLellan cemetery records, a record of burials in cemeteries in Clinton, New York, and Grand Isle, Addison, Chittenden, and Franklin, Vermont, counties, compiled by Hugh, Charles, and Hulda McLellan.
This collection consists primarily of Conrad Wilson's genealogical research notes and ancestry charts for the Wicker and LaVake (or Levesque) families. Included with these materials is also research pertaining to several other related families, including the Wilson, Pearson, Haskell, Foster, Knowlton, Holman, Washburn, Johnson, Parker, Winslow, Robbins, and Lear families, among others. A copy of an unpublished memoir written by Conrad Wilson provides some additional Wilson family history alongside his life story. Also included are a number of letters from the family of Augusta (French) and Cassius Wicker, 1841-1903. The bulk of this correspondence was written by Augusta "Gussie" Carroll (French) Wicker to her husband Cassius "Cash" Milton Wicker between 1868 and her death in 1889. Other materials further represent Augusta Wicker, including a smaller number of letters written to her parents, 1856-1888, and estate documents, 1889-1903. After Augusta Wicker's death, there are other letters written to Cassius Wicker from his three young children, Henry Halladay Wicker (1876-1894), Lucy Southworth Wicker (1879-1943), and Cyrus French Wicker (1882-1968). Earlier letters from Augusta had included notes from the children and financial guardianship of Wicker's daughter, Lucy Southworth Wicker, is addressed in the estate papers. Other Wicker family members represented in this collection of correspondence include several residents of New Haven and North Ferrisburgh, Vermont. Among these are letters of: Cassius Wicker's parents, Maria Delight (Halladay) and Cyrus Washburn Wicker; his uncle, Charles Haskell Wicker (1816-1888); his cousins George (1847-1885) and Emma (Wood) Wicker (1855-1941); and other another cousin, Charles S. Wicker (1861-1915), also of Niagara Falls, New York.
This collection consists of deeds and other documents relating to lands owned by the Monty (Monta) family in Colchester, Vermont. Included are warrantee, quit-claim, and mortgage deeds, as well as related legal documents. Family members related to deeds in the collection include: John Monty, Sr. (1784-1868), John Monty, Jr. (1819-1879) and his wife Elsie Monty (1820-1890), Benjamin Monta (1843-1926) and his wife Almira Shutts Monta (1845-1933), Harley C. Monta (1890-1959) and his wife Ada Morrow Monta (1890-1968), and Emery B. Monta (1874-1946). Also included are deeds of Anna A. Morrow, possibly the sister of Ada Morrow Monta. Early documents spelled the last name "Monty" while later ones used both "Monta" and "Monty."
Contents: The Guillemette family : Nicolas Guillemette, pioneer of New-France and ancestor of the Guilmet, Guilemette, Guillemet, Guillemette families in Quebec, Canada, and their descendants in North America / Richard A. Guilmette (2008) (794 p.) -- Census files information, 1840-1930 -- Listings from city directories (CA, CT, HI, LA, MA, ME, MI, MN, NH, NJ, NY, RI, TX, VT) -- Massachusetts vital statistics information -- Maine marriage information -- Missing list -- "L'entre-Guilmets" newsletter, v. 1 (1993) - v. 52 (2009) -- Social Security deaths, 1937 thru Jan. 2008 (various states) -- Draft registration list, World War I.
