Welcome to my favorite obsession: Pépin Genealogy

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The Tanguay portion of the Monster Data Base is complete, topping out at 26,142 individuals.  Yes: twenty-six thousand, one hundred and forty-two.  It started innocently enough in 2000 with a curiosity to see where the assorted collateral family lines went.  After all, there have been Pépins in North America since the 1600s.

The bulk of the information in the Monster Data Base comes from The Tanguay.  It's full title is: DICTIONNAIRE GÉNÉALOGIQUE des FAMILLES CANADIENNES depuis la fondation de la colonie jusqu'a nos jours par L'Abbé Cyprien Tanguay.  Depuis 1608 jusqu'à 1700. Province de Quebec, 1871, a seven volume set of books, published in Québec in 1871.

The rest comes from a number of sources, including but not limited to:

• The Rene Jetté aka The Jetté

• The Hudson's Bay Company Archives

• Morag Maclachlan's Fort Langley Journals 1827-30

• Vital Statistics British Columbia, Canada, and Washington State, USA

• The personal research of my many cousins.  Some of this information I've had since before I recognized the value of recording my sources.  Cousins: if you see your work here without your name on it, drop me an email and I'll fix it. (I drove cab for 11 years and have very few functioning brains cells left.)

And, yes, I know there are inaccuracies in The Tanguay. I have become quite familiar with them.  Which brings us round to the purpose of this section of the web site.

In assembling the Monster Database, I found many web sites with bits and chunks of the information here.  The difference here is that I'm showing how interrelated the First Families of Québec were-- including the three main North American Pepin lines--according to Father Tanguay.  I include Volume (Tome), page number, and any footnotes (the treasure is in the footnotes).  I hope that those of you who come from some of these lines might feel inclined to correct/add to the info from The Tanguay.  

You will find individuals who have no source notes.  Early on, I was certain I could remember whose information was whose.  HAH!  I say, HAH!, as well as Fat chance. and a few things much less polite.  As you peruse these pages, I would be mighty grateful if you would bring these individuals to my attention.

My thanks to the the folks with the LDS for PAF 4.0.4.18 Multi Language (5.75 MB) -- aka Personal Ancestral File (it's item number 77062999).  I've tried a few other genealogy programs --including Family Tree Maker and Brother's Keeper-- and my personal preference is PAF 4.0 (there are newer versions but I STILL prefer 4.0).

If you see a glaring inaccuracy, PLEASE drop me an email, and when you do, please include more than just the individual's name.  Out of the 26,142 individuals in this Monster Data Base, there are 10 Jean Pépins, 16 Jean-Baptiste Pépins, 34 Joseph Pépins, 26 Louis Pépins, 29 Pierre Pepins, 13 Marie Pépins, 36 Marie-Joseph Pépins. 

The high-end cut-off date is 1901, and I am doing my level best to include no information on living people (other than those who have told told via email that they don't mind).  If I missed someone, it was unintentional; email me and I'll fix it AND send you an email in return to let you know I've done it.

If there's a family line here that you would like to see more on, drop me an email, and I'll put it up.

The directory, below, will be updated as I add all the family lines.  Until this long and tedious process is done, this will be one long page.  When I'm done, I'll divide the resultant long page into individuals pages -- the A page, the B page, etc.  Until then, if you are looking for someone in particular, let the page load and then, on your keyboard, push the CTRL key, hold it down and then push the F key.  Then type in the name you're looking for, and click FIND NEXT.

Oh, yeah . . .

When you send in corrections please include your original source, such as the René Jetté . . . the Red Drouin . . . the Blue Drouin . . . parish records from [fill in the blank], the research you inherited from Great Grand Aunt Marie-Geneviève; I occasionally get email asking where I found certain information.

My French is not good enough yet to translate so you will see at lot of French.  Some of the most common words are:

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