April 2005 -- Vol 6, No. 4

In this month's COUSINS:

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WHAT'S NEW

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It's the April COUSINS!

THIS MONTH'S FEATURE:  

Last month we looked at Pierre PEPIN, his wife Marie BEDARD, and their 9 children.

This month we look at Marie-Marguerite PEPIN, her husband Mathieu HIANVEU dit Lafrance, and their 7 children.

Marie-Marguerite is the 15th child of II--Jean PÉPIN and wife Marguerite MOREAU.  She was born in St Joseph (according to René Jetté), and baptized 10 Mar 1720 in Charlesbourg, Québec.

On 28 August 1752, in Charlesbourg, she married

Mathieu HIANVEU dit Lafrance, son of Mathieu HIANVEU and wife Marie SEENEY.  A First Generation North American, he was baptized 19 Dec 1724.  He was buried 7 Mar 1793, in Québec.

According to Tanguay, they had 7 children.

1.	Joseph-Louis HIANVEU, baptized 28 Sept 1753; buried 26 Aug 1754
2.	Marie-Thérèse HIANVEU, baptized 29 Dec 1754; buried 7 Sept 1755
3.	Etienne-Joseph HIANVEU dit Lefrance, baptized 18 Aug 1756; married 27 June 1780, Marie-Françoise DANIEL; buried 27 Dec 1838
4.	Louise-Catherine HIANVEU, baptized 20 Nov 1757; married 29 April 1783, Québec, Louis-Joseph DROLET; buried 14 April 1798
5.	Thomas HIANVEU, baptized 4 Feb 1760
6.	Marie-Marguerite HIANVEU, baptized 15 Mar 1762; married 25 Sept 1787, Pierre Langlois
7.	Julien HIANVEU, baptized 12 April 1764

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

RAMBLINGS FROM THE EDITOR

Weather is a funny thing.

Last week, it was warm and sunny. This week it's warmish and raining.  In some places it's snowed recently.  Might snow tonight in Toronto, Ontario.

It's cloudy Seattle, Portland, Ore; Portland, ME; Portland, AR; Portland, CT; Portland, IN; Portland, MI; Portland, OH; Portland. PA; Toronto, OH; London, AR; London, OH; Paris, AR; Paris, IL; Paris, ME; Paris, MI; Paris, MS; Paris, MO; Paris, TX; Lima, IL; Lima, MT; Lima. OH; Reno, PA; Delhi, IA; Delhi, LA; and Pepin, WI.

Mostly cloudy in Hong Kong, China; London, KY; London, TX; Paris, France; Paris, ID; Paris, KY; Paris, OH; Paris, TN; Lima, Peru; Lima, NY; Reno, NV; Delhi, NY; Kansas City, KS; Kansas City, MO; and Smith, KY.

And it's partly cloudy Sydney, Australia; Portland, Texas; Portland, MO; Portland, NY; London, WV; Tahiti/Papeete, French Polynesia; Honolulu, HI; Paris, VA; Long Beach, CA; Long Beach, WA; Reno, OH; Pine Ridge, SD; Pine Ridge, KY; Tehran, Iraq; Delhi, Ontario; Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan; Sapporo, Japan; and Smith, NV.

Fair in London, England; Prague, Czech Republic; Pforzheim, Germany; Los Angeles, CA; Tuscaloosa, AL; and Oxnard, CA.

Sunny in Portland, ND; Toronto, KS; Toronto, SD; Long Beach, MS (with flood warnings); and Delhi, CA.

A light rain falls on Dublin, Ireland; Toronto, Canada; and Long Beach, NY.

Light rain showers in London, Ontario.

And it's dusting in Delhi, India.

Humans are funny critters.  A fundamental requirement, it appears, is to have something familiar nearby.  Even for some looking for new horizons, they brought the name of the old home town with them and give it to the new town
they formed.  For the above weather listings, I sat here, at my desk, and typed names into the search bar of my Weather Channel desk top weather thingy.  Got it at

http://www.weather.com/?par=Desktop

Desktop weather also shows a 12 hour forecast, Sever weather warnings, news headlines, and other goodies one might watch the Weather Channel to get.

The above list got its start when I got curious about the weather in Portland.  I knew about Portland, Maine, and was a bit surprised by 13 Portlands.  I then moved on the One Name Cities.  Cairo, for instance, I think of Egypt, but there are also Cairos in Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, and West Virginia.

This is probably why some genealogy records on the Internet can be confusing.  And frustrating.  The ones that give only a city name, no county name, not even a state name, just a city name.  Sometimes one can puzzle it out from other info, but there remains a small percentage that there isn't one clue.  Local-centric thinking, and it works if you live in say, Seattle, Kennebunkport, Tacoma, Argyll, Enumclaw, Honolulu, Hokkaida, Humptulips, Xi'an, Waterproof, Puyallup, Schenectady, Inukjuak, Murmansk, or Sequim.

It doesn't work for Portland (13), Cairo (8), Tripoli (4), Ontario (5), Waterford (11), Bristol (16), Paris (13), Long Beach (4), Long Island (3), Lima (5), Eureka (11), Memphis (7), Toronto (), Greenwood (15), Jersey (4), Smyrna (8), Detroit (5), or Springfield (24).

The Weather Channel's Desktop weather does have its limitations.  Whereas it will show the weather in the southern most city in the world, Ushuaia, Argentina (partly cloudy), it will not show the weather in the city billed
as the northernmost town in the world, Hammerfest, Norway, (70 degrees north latitude; Barrow, Alaska is at 71 degrees north latitude) through it's probably safe to say it's cold there right now. In Murmansk, Russia (68 degrees, 59 minutes north) it's mostly cloudy, 25F/-4C light breeze out of the WSW, and being as it's 1 degree and 1 minute further north than Hammerfest.

Amazing what one can find on the Internet.

Amazing how time flies when doing free form searches like this.  When I started with Ramblings, it was just a bit past 2pm, it's now 6:21pm.  It's still warmish and raining.  And dinner time.

But before I go, a quick list of what the two letter state abbreviations mean:

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