Quebecois Project Members

Profile manager: Danielle Liard [send private message]

List of Quebecois Project participants. This project covers profiles who settled in Canada, Nouvelle-France (modern day Quebec) during the 17th century and up to 1763.

HOW TO add yourself. Beside your name below, please keep track of what you're currently working on for this project. This is both for your own reference, and to aid collaboration among the project participants. If you are going to be temporarily inactive in the project (eg: on vacation), please note that here. Thanks!

Leader / Coordinator

• Danielle Liard- I have accepted the job of project coordinator, and have particular interest in the early arrivals, including Filles du Roy, Filles à Marier, Carignan-Salières regiment troops, Marine Detachment troops, as well as some of my family names including Liard, Guyard, Brunelle
• Laurie Giffin I support Danielle when a leader is needed for the project.

Participants

Alphabetical list

• Brian Ross Ashley - Desrosiers dit Lafreniere ancestors, and descendants of Antoine Desrosiers - would particularly like to resolve his origins and those of his spouse Anne.
• Alexis V. Bagale-
• Jerry Baraboo- It is a pleasure being on this team. I am focusing on my Canadian military relationships. I continue to research Barbeau, Barbot, Baribeau, Baribault, Barbeaux, Menard and dit Boisdore, dit Poietvin and dit Lafontaine names, Nouvelle France, Canadian French and Louisiana family histories. Baraboo-1 22:02, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
• Janine R. Barber -
• Rose Barnett -
• Carole Bayard -
• Paul Belanger-490 -
• Joe J. Blackburn -
• Deb E. Blundell -
• Darlene E. Bora -
• Tim Boulay-121 -
• Andrea Boudreau - Working on maternal line, Lacombe. Also looking into Daignault, Trahan, Leblanc, Gendron, and Rufiange lines to further my tree as far back as possible. Trying to demolish a brick wall in my Groulx lineage. - Also currently working on cleaning up location categories for the territory of Québec in time, under the supervision of Danielle Liard.
• Denis Bourbonnais -
• Claudia Bourdon - I am working on my husband's Bourdon line, which descends from Jacque Bourdon, who was in Montreal, Quebec, in 1666.
• Denis Bourbonnais - Brunet dit Bourbonnais, Dignard/Guignard, St-Denis, Huppé, Fortin, Cormier
• Mary Ann Brandt Jensen- currently working on adding the Crevier line to Wiki-tree with intent to then move to the Choquette line, descendants of Nicolas Choquet & Anne Julien, particularly the link to my husband's family through Paschal Choquette & Patience Prudence Benoit and their descendants. Intend to move on to the Benoit line after that. At present, I've mostly added French members of the Crevier line before they came to Canada.
• Jacqueline Burch -
• Tammy Chevrette - I plan on working on the profiles which I have already created on my maternal and paternal lines to see who can be added to this project. Chevrette, Remillard, Cartier, Boucher, Rondeau and Morin to name a few.
• Paul Chisarik - I'm working primarily on my maternal grandmother's line which goes back to Cloutier, Dupont, Guyon, Jarousseau, Leblond, LeClerc, Lereau and Robin (among many others) and eventually ended up immigrating to Connecticut in the 1800's.
• Sunny Clark - Immigrants from Europe to Nouvelle-France; connecting notable cousins to one another; Noelville denizens (Sudbury area, Ontario, Canada); collecting ancestral stories.
• Bruce Codère - The Buteau's have my interest in all directions, and the connection to the Fortier's who have trickled down mostly in Quebec, though some left the province with fine traces. And others, so many others.
• Deborah Collier - I am completing work on sources for the Generation 1 ancestor of the Réaume lineage - René Réaume. I have located and am writing the biography for the youngest Filles du Roi to marry (at the age of 13) in Quebec in 1665 - Marie Chevreau. I am attempting to find some reliable sources for the Pitre family (Jean-Baptiste, Joseph, Marie and Elisabeth Pitre Vandandaique) that have no sources.
• Marlene L. Crosby -
• Dave Cushing -
• Hélène Daigneault Je travaille sur les lignées Daigneault/Daniau-dit-Laprise/Daniau, Lachance/Pépin-dit-Lachance/Pépin, Désilets/Desrosiers-dit-des-Ilets/Deronzier, et Lacasse/Cassé/Case, les comparant avec les donnés dans Geni, de mon profil ou d'autres. J'aime bien corriger les accents, fautes d'orthographe, et les lieux-dits. J'aime spécifier les endroits de naissance, mariage et décès selon les dates historiques, par exemple: Nouvelle France avant 1763, Bas-Canada/Haut-Canada après 1763 suite à la bataille des Plaines d'Abraham, et province de Québec - Canada après 1867, donc de la Confédération à nos jours (le Canada qu'on connaît aujourd'hui). Je m'intéresse aussi à tous les liens, possibles ou réels, entre ma famille et les nations autochnotes, et ma famille et le clan Fraser d'Ecosse.
• Dawn Ellis - so far...Fuseau dit Roch, Tellier, Ferland, Gervaise, Serre dit St-Jean, Beaugrand, Thibodeau
• Claude Emond - Emond on my side, actually Edmunds from Irish descent and Fournier on my wife's side.
• Chris M. Ferraiolo -
• Denis Forest-165 -
• Michaël A. Gagné -
• Nadine Giasson St-Amand Working on ancestry tree from the Kamouraska and around: Cloutier, Thibault, Caron, etc.
• Jacob A. Girard -
• Juliette Goudreau -
• Louis-Vincent Grand'Maison -
• Melissa Greenwood- I am working on Levesque/Dusablon/Bouchard/Dupuis/Beauchamin/Mercure/Marcure/Belanger all French-Canadians with many as firsts/founders/and notables.
• C. Greer -
• Chris Hampson - I initially got my badge because I was working on some Quebecois incidental to my own family, but I broke through a brick wall and discovered that a g-g-grandfather was really an Ethier (he had only been known as a Hickey). So now I'm connecting him to the existing profiles.
• John Hebert - Presently cleaning up and adding sources and images to 818 profiles in my ancestry that qualify for Quebecois Project. Some family names, Hebert, Patenaude, Morin, Faucher, Charron, Joliet, Aubuchon, Baillargeon, Belanger, Benoit, Bouchard, Boucher.....
• Sarah Heiney - Planning a One Place Study for Saint-Raymond, Portneuf, as well as research on other ancestors
• R. G. Heroux - working on hundreds *sigh* of 17th century families; need to connect all children to their parents. Need additional lifetime to complete.
• Gordon Johnson - Currently sourcing the lineage of my mother's GF Alfred Laramee though the Février dit Laramee's and dit Lacroix to Charles Gauthier and Christophe Février. Trying to keep focused!
• Phil C. Jourdeuil - Working on the Archambault family
• Yves Jolly - Jolly grandfather immigrated from France, but Therrien, Tremblay, Renauld/Renaud, Bedard and Farlardeau surnames from Charlevoix and the Quebec city region have all been here since the 17th century, and those are my focus.
• Michele Krogh, working on my maternal and paternal lines, Lemieux, Poirier, Viau, to name a few. They lived in Ottawa, Ontario, so I've been working on tracing them back to early Quebec. Looking for duplicates and adding children.
• Louis E. LaJoie -
• James LaLone - Listing of all my direct F-C ancestor's surnames on my profile as well as some I collect all male lines in certain families, especially the TREMBLAY family (database of almost 42,000 names).
• Celeste Lamoureux - Working on the Lamoureux, Mongeon, Moyen and St. Germain lines.
• Nicolas D. LaPointe -
• Stephen Lapointe - Lapointe, Audet dit Lapointe, Sasseville, Jean, Tremblay, Lalonde, Rapin
• Darrell Larocque - Extensive paternal Quebecois ancestry with 16 Carignan-Salieres regiment ancestors
• Mike Lavigne - Paternal line, Lajeunesse, Lavigne, Luneau, Morin, Nadeau, Rivard, Sauvegeau, Theroux and Tetreault.
• Greg Lavoie - My research interests are mostly in Bellechasse, Beauce, Nicolet-Yamaska, and Rimouski. I am particularly interested in researching the Labrecque and Lavoie surnames.
• Lianne Lavoie - Currently working on verifying and sourcing the lines recently connected to my tree, including Lavoie, Michaud, Ouellet, Miville, Paradis, and Boucher profiles.
• Kristen L. Louca -
• Emma MacBeath -
• Patrice MacLeod -
• Carady D. Madden -
• Bill Martin - I have grandsons whose father is French-Canadian. I've traced thousands of their grandparents, and decided adding them here would be a worthwhile project.
• Biily Matney - working on Caillot/Calliott/Lachanse/Messager profiles
• Randy Maynard - working on Ménard/Menard/Maynard profiles and also LaCroix/LaCross profiles.
• Millerd-11- Owner of the Dubreuil One Name Study. Primary research interests are Mass/Rhode Island/Connecticut French Canadians. though not officially connected as part of the Québecois project, I regularly try to update with the werelate.org name variant database with Québecois names so that the variants display on searches on Wikitree (as that is the database we use). I descend from many french Canadians on both sides of my family: Briere, Dufresne, Dubreuil, Jalbert, Forêt/Forest, Guilbault, Chevalier, and more.
• Sarah J. Murtaugh-30 -
• Doris Miller-Yetton - Working on filles du roi ancestors. Currently Claude DesCharlets and her sisters, as well as her husband, Simeon LeRoy dit Audy and their children which overlap with another project.
• Mary Beth E. Mylott-6 -
• John A. Nash -
• Darrell Parker -
• Margaret M. Persing -
• Sue L. Pombrio -
• Duane L. Poncy -
• Robin Rainford - I discovered that my parents are related through their 8th and 9th Quebecois great grandparent, thanks to small French Canadian towns on the Dakota Prairie. Working with Labrie, LaBrie, LaChance, Pepin, Hebert, Gagnon.
• Michelle Robillard - Descendants of Claude Robillard - I would like to clean up/add biographies & sources. Any help would be appreciated as I haven't much time to do so.
• Denis Rivard - Working on category Quebecois Project, sub-category Quebecois Project Maintenance to lower the backlog
• Susan Robitaille -
• Charlotte Rocheleau -
• Jeannette A. Saladino -
• N. Samorodin -
• Leslie A. Shapiro -
• Shirlea Smith -
• Louise St-Amour - Christin dit St-Amour, Chaput, Provost, Fournier dit Préfontaine and many more
• Joseph St. Denis -
• Tim J. Stuart -
• Marie Svedahl - My maternal grandmother was French-Canadian so I have a wide selection of families. These are some: Belisle, Guimond, Hazeur, Leriger-Laplante, Robidoux.
• Gaston Tardif - While still working on building my family tree - now 98% more than 1000 profiles completed to 10 generations, I am working on completing at least a basic biography for each one, refering and linking to the church records whenever I can find them. Pretty difficult task, considering the state of the old church archives. One profile at the time.... As it is said in French: <Patience et longueur de temps font plus que force et que rage>.
• Jim Tareco - working on the Lauzon, Lauzan, Lauzau lines.
• Pierre Thibault -
• Sara Thibault - working on my Thibault, Paradis and Dubé ancestors in St-Jean-Port-Joli; my Désilets, Lemire and Duguay ancestors in Nicolet; and my Quemeneur dit Laflamme ancestors based in Ste-Marguerite and Lévis. I've adopted a few profiles that run in these same familial circles and am continuing to build my family tree.
• Karen Tobo - I'm about 1/16 French-American through Emily Burdalow (baptised Amelie Victoire Bordeleau) of Vincennes, Indiana, and will work on my Baillargeon, Bonneau, Bordeleau, Cardinal, Caron, Chartier, Girardeau, Lacoste dit Languedoc, Perron, Poitevin dit Arpin, Tougas dit Laviolette, and Vallée ancestors as able
• S. Tynan -
• Richard F. Van_Wasshnova -
• AL Wellman - tracing French-Canadien ancestry of Pepin County, Wisconsin, through the migration from Quebec via Vermont and New York.
• Jess White-Phillip -Brunet dit L'Etang/L'Estang and families they married. I'll also be trying to identify and bridge Acadian-Quebecois familial connections (Pre and Post Derangement). Also interested in Percheron emigrants and Filles-de-Roi.
• Jess A. White-Phillip -
• Jim Wiborg - Adding to the Riopelle line. Still new to Wikitree, so I'll add more as I progress.
• Linda Wisking - Louis Martineau is considered a Pioneer of the province of Quebec. I am in the process of entering the family tree and details, plus the sources, for this family. I am concentrating on making this ancestors line as complete here as possible. I am also noting various other Pioneers that are confirmed as such either by the PRDH or Fichier Origine, and noting for the females whether they are Fille de Roi or Filles a marier.
• Carroll Woods -
• Cynthia Wright - Tracing Noel Langlois 1606, as well as the Hudons/ Beaulieu, and I am actively searching for reliable information on the Comeau.
• Michelle Wyman - Building my family tree and learning how to be an accurate WikiTree researcher.

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• Annette Garner-I am still in the process of adding a Roy line which extends back to Nicolas LeRoy who immigrated to Quebec from France
• Susan Sheldon Dion-310 currently working on family connections before 1700 Dion, LaForest, Guyon, Cote.
• Sue Walker- Jean Pierre Brousseau descendants, my Pierre Miville & Catherine Baillon lineage, and Robert Lizot desendants
• Douglas Laundry - Presently cleaning up and adding sources and images to profiles Landry/Laundry in my ancestry that qualify for Quebecois Project.