January 2005 -- Vol 6, No. 1

In this month's COUSINS:

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WHAT'S NEW

I am now in the home stretch with the Monster Data Base; I am in the Rs, with I--Jean RABOUIN.  It is in fact the Monster Data Base that delayed this month's newsletter.  I really want to get it done so I can post it, which is the real work.  There are, as of right now, approximately 2000 individual family lines--according to the filters in PAF. Might be fewer, might not.  I won't know until I get to the end.

The last several weeks, I've been finding several "copies" of individuals.  When I enter the women, they are usually listed with their father's first name and generation number.  To save some time, and help me keep my place, if I haven't yet reached the father's family, he gets added by himself.  If I have already done the father's family, I go back and re-check the father/daughter/mother relationship.  In this process I am discovering families of siblings who came over from rance/Normandy/Germany/Acadia.  There may be more. RABOUIN is the third R surname (preceded by RABADY, RABASSE, and RABLEAU).

It'll be interesting to see how this all turns out - besides having to completely re-design the MDB page.

This is also the first month of the new distribution procedure. If I miss someone, email me a gentle reminder.

THIS MONTH'S FEATURE:  

Last month we looked at the children of Marie-Thérèse PEPIN, her two husbands, Jacques THOMAS, and Quentin ADAM, and her children.

This month we look at Louis-Joseph PEPIN and wife Louise-Marguerite BERGEVIN and their 10 children.

Louis-Joseph is the son and 10th child of II-Jean PÉPIN and wife Marguerite MOREAU. He was baptized 7 Sept 1710 in Charlesbourg, Québec.  The René Jetté identifies his birth place as "St. Joseph".

On 12 Nov 1736, in Beauport, he married

Louise-Marguerite BERGEVIN, daughter of II-Louis BERGEVIN dit Brechevin and wife Marguerite TESSIER.  She was baptized in 1719.

According to Tanguay, they had 10 children.

If you can add/subtract/change any of this, send it on via email.

TANGUAY SAYS

It has become apparent that Father Tanguay made lists within lists. Thus far I have seen separate lists for "Sauvages", "Nègres", "Anglais", and "Panis". As I have time I've been transcribing these lists-within-lists to a page on the website. "Sauvages" and "Nègres" are already there and I'm working up to the "Anglais". You can find this page at http://www.fortlangley.ca/pepin/TanguaySays.html

MAILBAG

From Cousin Scott, in Japan:

Re: Denise MacDonald's inquiry - she might consider subscribing to the Quebec Research list on RootsWeb (QUEBEC-RESEARCH-L@rootsweb.com) and placing an inquiry.  But unless she includes whatever dates she has in her current records, I think she might find a bit of a challenge in her research.  I have several ancestors named Joseph PEPIN-LACHANCE and a few named Marie TURGEON, none of whom were married to the other.  PRDH came up empty handed, so perhaps these two married early in the 1800s.  I did several searches on my growing collection (just over 20,000) of saved QR response e-mails; again there were lots of hits for PEPIN-LACHANCE and TURGEON, but none for a married couple with those names.  Again, if Ms. MacDonald could supply some dates to start with, I'll bet the QR researchers would find a match in short order.

From Cousin Elise in New York:

"Marie Grandin - Sent by the King", an historical novel of the Filles du Roi story has now been translated into French and will be launched on board the Jacques Cartier cruise scheduled for Aug. 27, 2005, on the St. Lawrence, leaving from Trois Rivières for Québec City with stops at historic sites
along the way.

From Cousin Jean Daneault:

Je suis de la lignée des Maclure,pouvez vous me dire les noms des enfants de Narcisse Maclure marié avec Domithilde Martineau. [I am a Maclure
descendant, can you tell me the children's names of Narcissus Maclure and Domithilde Martineau?]

RAMBLINGS FROM THE EDITOR

The post Christmas mail-blort is on. Ten million new computers, some of which are in the hands of brand new users. Not that all brand new users are bad. Or that being a brand new user is bad. It's the small number of new computer owners who are going to make email and ugly thing to wade through for a month or so.

Back a few years, when FIDOnet and BBSs were all the rage, on the writing echo I was a member of, for most of January and some of Feb we'd get new computer owners posting to the writing echo, making such broad and sweeping statements as:

"hi im a writter n wont share my writting w/u"

Made me eager to see what pearls this "writter" was going to produce. But after having his/her spelling corrected, these "writers" would storm off in a huff - without sharing.

I imagine it would be nothing new.

Nothing really is.

Mostly it's repackaging something that didn't much work that last time
round.

Was down at the library looking through old newspapers for obituaries --old being 1898. I literally laughed out loud. Scattered liberally throughout all of the --oh, now I can't remember if it was the Province or the Sun, but it doesn't much matter-- newspaper were ads for "weak men" and the "tonic" that would give them "renewed vigor" and help them with their "marital woes". The illustrations that accompanied these snake oil ads involved before and after line drawings of skinny, droopy men (who looked more like young boys than anything else), and broad shouldered, alert men with women draped round their knees, gazing up at them in worshipful adoration. Some ads were small and so discreetly worded I missed what the first few were
getting at. Others were splashy half-page ads, complete with testimonials on the efficiency of The Product, some from men, some from their "relieved" wives, but every single last ad spoke of "marital woes".

And much like the contemporary junque mail, the information was put out there for all to see.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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COUSINS
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This month's was finished 26 January 2005, 6:00 PM PST