Cindy (Bourque) Cooper
Honor Code SignatorySigned 18 Jul 2016 | 101,682 contributions | 9,198 thank-yous | 2,224 connections
Signed 18 Jul 2016 | 101,682 contributions | 9,198 thank-yous | 2,224 connections
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cousins and anyone else with an interest in genealogy.
Here is my family tree.
I love solving problems! Collaboration has been great and I feel I have friends here now.
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Born 1950s.
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Biography
Cindy (Bourque) Cooper is a member of the Bourque Name Study Project.
Cindy (Bourque) Cooper is a descendant of an Acadian
Cindy (Bourque) Cooper has French origins.
Cindy (Bourque) Cooper was RAWKED in the We Will RAWK You Event.
Cindy (Bourque) Cooper participated with Nor'Easters during the 2023 Connect-a-Thon, and added 200 connections.
Cindy (Bourque) Cooper participated with Nor'Easters' during the 2022 Source-a-Thon, adding sources to ' previously unsourced profiles.
Cindy (Bourque) Cooper participated with Nor'Easters during the 2022 Connect-a-Thon, and added 408 connections.
Cindy (Bourque) Cooper participated with Nor'Easters during the 2022 Connect-a-Thon, and added 128 connections.
Cindy (Bourque) Cooper participated with Nor'Easters during the 2021 Connect-a-Thon, and added 127 connections.
Cindy (Bourque) Cooper participated with Nor'Easters during the 2021 Clean-a-Thon, correcting 359 suggestions.
Cindy (Bourque) Cooper participated with Nor'Easters during the 2021 Source-a-Thon, adding sources to 56 previously unsourced profiles.
Cindy (Bourque) Cooper participated with Nor'Easters during the 2020 Source-a-Thon, adding sources to 85 previously unsourced profiles.
Cindy (Bourque) Cooper participated with The Nor'Easters during the 2020 Connect-a-Thon, and added 141 connections.
Cindy (Bourque) Cooper participated with Nor'Easters during the 2020 Clean-a-Thon, correcting 723 suggestions.
Cindy (Bourque) Cooper is participating with Nor'Easters during the 2019 Clean-a-Thon, correcting 563 suggestions.
Cindy (Bourque) Cooper participated with Nor'Easters during the 2019 Source-a-Thon, adding sources to 93 previously unsourced profiles.
Cindy (Bourque) Cooper participated with Équipe Acadie - Team Acadia during the 2018 Source-a-Thon, adding sources to 365 previously unsourced profiles.
My father got me started in genealogy, though sadly I never got to actually work on it with him. He and my cousin put together one of those huge sheets of 512+ people, all from Acadie and Quebec, and all done with no internet. It was almost completely correct. Now in my own retirement, I've taken up the hobby, er, obsession. His sheet helped me locate and complete all the ancestors and their families in his family on Wikitree. And then I had to learn more and began fixing other peoples profiles as a Data Doctor (a great learning tool as well as being helpful), and on and on. In the past couple of years I got absorbed with the Acadians and am a project co-leader. I spend most of my time on profiles between 1600 and 1760. I feel as though I know many other Wikitree members, and appreciate the tips and help I've received from many.
While working on Acadians, I find that I am related to a number of the First Families, a direct line to Antoine Bourg and his wife Antoinette Landry, and also Vincent Brun and his wife Marie René Breau. Also Richard, Comeau, Hebert, Gaudet, Rimbault, at least one Mi'kmaq on my fathers father's side. On his mothers side it was Roibichaud, Boudrot, Aucoin, Theriot, Gautrot and Edmee Lejeune. Probably the most well known of my grandmothers family is Le Borgne, De La Tour, D'abbadie and his native wife and her father Madockawando. The person who links me furthest back is De Salazar.
The Quebec connection is also prevalent, coming direct from France as well as a few Acadians who fled there during the expulsion. I am not sure of the count of Filles du Roi but maybe 30+.
In my free time I do a lot of hiking and make jewelry in Tucson, AZ where I live with my husband and two cats (who have not inherited this hobby but are intensely interested in food). The kids aren't too interested either, though I hope someday will pick their children's names from among the many beautiful French names in my tree.
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DNA
Paternal relationship is confirmed by a triangulated group on GEDmatch who share a 31.7 cM segment on chromosome 6, consisting of Cindy (Bourque) Cooper, GEDmatch kit # NH7493270, and HB, her 6th cousin, GEDmatch kit # QH1026713, and TL, her 5th cousin 1x removed, GEDmatch kit # M802483. (HB and TL are 5th cousins 1x removed.) Their most-recent common ancestors are Claude Joseph Joannet and Marie Louise Edeline, the 5x great grandparents of both Cindy (Bourque) Cooper and HB and 4x great grandparents of TL. DNA test taker Cindy (Bourque) Cooper is the daughter of Philip Bourque, the son of Levi Bourque, the 3x great grandson of the common ancestors Claude Joseph Joannet & Marie Louise Edeline.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Cindy or other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Cindy:
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Diane (Bourque) Hampson
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Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum posts about Cindy:
- Cindy Cooper is a Wonderful WikiTreer! Feb 8, 2024.
- 300,000+ G2G points - Congratulations to Cindy Cooper, and thank you from all of us! Dec 10, 2023.
- Cindy (Bourque) Cooper is a Wonderful WikiTreer Sep 17, 2023.
- Cindy Cooper is a Wonderful WikiTreer Jan 26, 2023.
- Cindy Cooper is a Wonderful WikiTreer Jan 20, 2023.
- Cindy Cooper is a Wonderful WikiTreer Aug 16, 2022.
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Cindy
according to the smart wilitreers who figured it out,we are 8th cousins. with Acadian roots back to the First 100.All on my mother's maternal line. Poor Pepere, had an Irish grandfather (which explains the<.1% Irish in my very boring Ancestry DNA ethnicity profile <.1% German is thanks to my father's great grandfather who married a woman from New York whose family was Palatine and emigrated to New Amsterdam. the other49.9% were from England Scotland and Wales. Both families married within their Tribes for 15 generations. It was a little distressing to learn that when Dad's early New England ancestors weren't fighting the Native Americans, They ought the French. Ship captains and traders by profession, One had a ship used by the British to attack Louisburg . My sister and I assume he rented or sold them his ship. Our family were not Navy men.
I admit to not doing much on the Acadian side of the tree. Sooo many cousins! I loved the truckloads of Christmas cards we got each year from Canada.Glittery and religious; the postage stamps let me follow Queen Elizabeth as she grew older. When I asked Mom who sent the cards she'd answer "my cousin" 'so&so's daughter... Mom's mother was one of 13, 10 of whom married and had an average of 10 kids each. Her dad was one of 12. more cousins. From 1875- WWI they lived in 2 neighboring towns; went to the same church and the same high school where Memere was the 1st lait teacher. I knew her well. She came to live with us after my grandfather died. She hated children and couldn't cook. I guess after having taught a couple hundred nieces & nephews she deserved her rebellion. You live in AZ? Have you spent time in the Maritime Provinces? When I was a kid, they spoke English in Nova Scotia ( of course) but French in New Brunswick. Since 1990 when I've been to Atlantic Canada many times with my Swedish husband. You here only French in PQ, and English everywhere else. I remember the sign for Poulet Frite ala Kentucky. I almost drove over the curb.
Since Covid, we live inTN. a culinary wasteland.
You were already on the trusted list for Louis Lamoureux (abt.1640-1715) so I added you as manager. That should allow you to do whatever you need. Let me know if there's anything else I can help with. Paul
I do agree that Alphonse is not Rosa's father. She should be disconnected, but it seems a bit arbitrary who we say is the "real" Rosa, doesn't it? I'm not really sure of the best way to handle that.
I believe that Dandurand-582 is the same person as this Alphonse. I noticed you originally referred to him as an "other" Alphonse Dandurand but changed the note to remove this distinction. Do you have any objection to merging them? A lot of circumstantial evidence points to them being the same.
With regard to Rosa, over the years I've come across quite a few profiles that were clearly not related to the profile they were attached to. After detaching, I look for a person who was close to that and could have been the intended person and build the profile from there. Or you could find another similarly named profile and merge her away. The PM has not been active for two years but you could try leaving a message on her profile for him with a proposal. I'd go ahead and disconnect the wrong father anyway, with a note about why. Cindy
Thanks so much for all you do. It is a pleasure working for you. Ralph
Excellent job on the YouTube Acadians Project presentation last night (8/4/2023)! Thanks.
I find some solace in remembering that if 50 years ago, anyone asked me to spend hours reading a baptism record scrawled in a different language, just so I could be as certain as possible that one of the many 10th GGP was born on the 14th, not the 15th, 400 years ago. The answer would most certainly be, "Sorry, I can't. I have a date TONIGHT". One day the effort we all contribute will be a treasure to our descendants. It ain't gonna happen today.
edited by Peter Geary
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Deschamps-146 Best wishes in your tree! Cindy Bourque Cooper, co-leader, Acadians Project
Thanks for reformatting the children of Jacques - now I have an easy-to-see Wiki-standard example to follow. I’ve been diligently working my way through my very large Cajun family adding children - I’ll make my way back to the ones I’ve added and properly format them.
We’re cousins through Francoise Hebert. The thoroughness of the biographies in the Acadian and Louisiana projects hooked me. I’m still on the steep learning curve of both Wikitree and genealogy in general. Y’all are my people!!!
Get this app for your browser - WikiTree BEE. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:WikiTree_BEE I use it on Firefox but it works on other browsers too. Make sure you turn on the Auto bio function. Then a button will show up when you edit and you can click on that. There is still a little editing to do (like taking out repeated labels at the top, and removing the siblings list as we don't use that on WikiTree). I love the child list, and this is the way I did the one for that profile you made.
Feel free to ask any questions about WikiTree. If you go earlier in your ancestors, make sure to see if there already is a profile as we don't make duplicates on WikiTree. We all share the older profiles. Good luck with your family, cousin!
I appreciate her dedication. Thanks Cindy!
Cindy
By modifying a profile, I discovered the existence of "One Place Studies".
How do I get the list of "One Place Studies"?
The profile https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Langlois-1862 contains a "One Place Studies" for Neuville, Quebec, CA.
It seems incomplete to me because there is no connection.
Can you help me please. ?
Example
South Pool, Devon One Place study Space: South_Pool% 2C_Devon_One_Place_Study https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:South_Pool%2C_Devon_One_Place_Study
Thank you !
Alain Bourque
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:One_Place_Studies Cindy
I save your link in my favorites.
Since this morning, I have read several pages on the subject.
However, I was not able to correct the syntax or understand the problem of redirecting to Neuville in the profile https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Langlois-1862.
What is the solution so that OPS becomes clickable towards Neuville?
This link works:Thank you for your help !
Alain Bourque
This person, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Haywood-41
I found a site on the Places Directory. Directory of place: http://www.oneplacestudy.org/
Do we have a directory on WikiTree?
Thank you !
Alain Bourque
I have been working on my family tree since the year 2000 but i am not a genealogist and for that reason i am wondering if i made a mistake when i signed the honor code. Beatrice Boudreau Costello
Fletcher
Cindy
Armand Le Fort
Stick with it, WikiTree can be a bit confusing at first, but you might come to love it. I do. Cindy
I'm guessing that's volume 2, pages 983 - 1012. Is this his genealogy?
edited by Donna Fournier
Cindy
One possibility: (not the right children but was in PA) http://mwlandry.ca/genealog/getperson.php?personID=I10451&tree=03
I ended up going through the White list. There are 8 Charles LeBlanc's, one was born in Port Royal, a couple died around 1755-1764, one was in Massachusetts, another was married in France, then Southhampton, then went to Louisiana, another went to France and died in Bangor (Main I presume). One was married in 1744 and likely would have more than 2 children if deported in 1755. I think that leaves no good candidates for your question. There was a Charles deported in 1755 from Grand Pre but he had no wife or children. I didn't find any other candidates in Landry or Reader. There is a Charles leBlanc listed in deportees to Pennsylvania with his wife Anne LeBlanc and 3 children.
Edited to add more info.
edited by Cindy (Bourque) Cooper
Charles was 7 when deported with Charles, mother and brother Francois. Mother died on arrival in Philadelphia, father disappeared. Eventually, he changed his name to Charles White. He never married, amassed a fortune, left no will and many people claimed to be his Acadian relative as they fought over his money.
There were two others born in St. Charles aux Mines, one son of Jacques and the other the son of Francois. On the earlier end of Charles son of Charles I could find no combination of father son both named Charles. Again there were some younger Charles but none seemed to have either a later death date nor a Pennsylvania connection.
In the Pennsylvania deportations there was a Charles, hiw fie and three children, none of these others were named.
Do you have a link to that court record?
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/advanced-big-y-dna-test-results-reveal-leger-surname-marker-marie
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Rollet-132
Cindy
nice article (in French) concerning Acadian history, lots of sources. https://lebloguedeguyperron.wordpress.com/2021/03/14/286-lexpedition-du-navire-le-saint-clement-pour-lacadie-en-1643/
Danielle
Thank you for your participation in October 2020’s Source-a-thon. Your contributions helped us to clear over 57,000 profiles that needed sourcing. This makes our Shared Tree all that much better.
Keep up the great work!
Pippin Sheppard WikiTree’s Appreciation Team
Do you have an Gedmatch ID ?
Patrice
Probably because of my Acadian roots. I have four riddles in my family tree and my DNA connects me to the vast majority of newcomers to Canada, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and Louisiana. Arsenault, Aucoin, Bélanger, Bernier, Bérubé, Blanchard, Bouchard, Boudrot, Caron, Chiasson, Cloutier, Comeau, Cormier, Coté, Doiron, Dubé, Dufour, Dugas, Fortin, Fournier, Gagné, Gagnon, Gamache, Gaudet, Girouard, Hébert, Houde, Lagassie, Mélanson, Mignier, Miville, Ouellet, pelletier, Racine, Saint-Pierre, Simard, Thériault, Thibault, Thibodaux, Tremblay, and so Detchevrry, Orsiny, Lafitte .
A real hell to study as the families are so mixed together, so impossible, it is not possible at this time to identify an MRCA. Patrice
1 - René LANDRY 1618-/1686 &1645 Perrine BOURG 1626-1693/ 2 - Jean Claude LANDRY 1605 & Marie Perrine BOURG 1600-1686 i don't know if this two branch are finaly the only same branch...
There is a Perrine Rau who has an Other last name of Bourg, she was born in 1611 married to Jean Theriot (Rau-71) if you'd like to check her out. I did not find a Jean Claude Landry born in 1605 in WikiTree. If you can provide more information about him, I'll see what I can do to find one. Best wishes - Cindy
Thank you for this information. The problem is about my four riddles in my family tree, i have no direct connection to Acadian Family, just a big cluster of genetic cousins who shared with me some different segments of chromosomes. This is the difficulty, these family are too mixed for finding an only MRCA isolated like i made with my english branch of PEDIGO/ELKINS (enigma 4) or WISE/DENMARK (enigma 3).
1799 - Bordeaux France - Jacques Tobie ( given name), abandonned child, my male line with Y chromosome R1b-CTS4188 from Pays Basque 1828 - Bordeaux France - Marc Anien (given name), abandonned child. My link is by this two abandonned child, so the link is broken and i have to find MRCA by crossing information from my genetic cousins Patrice
Thanks for all the work you accomplished during our Connect-A-Thon 2020. It is amazing how many more profiles were created and added to our Shared Tree. You have every right to be pleased with your efforts!
Kind regards,
Pippin Sheppard ~ WikiTree’s Appreciation Team
One teeny tiny little thing to know is that the Acadian french women did not take their husbands last name. They kept their own throughout all the records. If you wish, you can put their spouses last name in Other last names, while their LNAB goes in the Current Last name.
Thank you for your contributions! Cindy
I noticed that you changed the birth location field on Anenontha-1. The Pays d’en Haut was claimed as part of New France, but was west of the settlement area along the Saint Lawrence River, and, as I understand it, not part of Canada itself. You can find more information on the associated Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pays_d%27en_Haut
So to correct it I should remove Canada, but would leave Nouvelle-France.
Thanks so very much for your participation in the spring Clean-a-thon! Every suggestion you cleared (over 700!) made our Tree that much better. The WikiTree community appreciates YOU!
Pip Sheppard WikiTree’s Appreciation Team
Have created the French version of Great Upheaval category, set to mirror, takes a bit of time for the program to implement, but once done people tagged with either language category will show up in both lists.
Meanwhile, taking a look at Category:Acadians, I noticed that it had among its parent categories Category:17th Century American Immigration. While many Acadians wound up in Louisiana, it somehow seems wrong to me to have Acadians under that category, since 17th century ... appears to deal with immigrants to what is now the USA only. What's the logic in this, do you know?
Danielle
There is already a sub-category of Acadians who wound up in Louisiana (Category:Acadian Immigrants to Louisiana). That one makes sense as sub of Category:Acadians.
Will let the people working on US immigration categories sort out anything else in their lines, there has been major reworking of migration categories last year, the dust hasn't settled yet. :-D And there do exist migration categories for us Frenchies already.
Please see https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/972804/looks-like-this-man-was-conflated-from-need-some-input-please as I don't know what is the best way to proceed on this, these are definitely 2 men, don't know the parentage on mine married to Marguerite Mirault
Danielle
Of possible interest to Acadian project: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pinel-65
This girl gets contracted in 1686 by the Compagnie de L'Acadie per my sources. Awaiting a reply from one source as to whether or not he has data on her departure for Acadie. Maybe you have other data on her.
Danielle
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re Pierre Boucher dit Desrosiers, Acadian project box would not belong on him. Isn't there a category for Grand-Pré, Acadie? That would be the appropriate handling of this to my mind, since he married there. He was not an Acadian at all from what I can tell.
Yes, Filles à marier are also all under project PPP. The Fille du roy in question, I forget which one she was, the only one I know of who went to Acadie. Both projects are managers on her.
Danielle
Just to let you know, ALL the Filles du roy are under PPP, by decision made about them quite some time ago. So no need to add reason for PPP on profiles.
Danielle
-Lauren
Ray