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October 2005 -- Vol 10, No. 5
In this month's COUSINS:
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WHAT'S NEW
I found The Neatest
Computer Toy.
But more on that in a bit.
THIS MONTH'S FEATURE:
In the September newsletter,
we recapped the 16 children of Jean Pépin and Marguerite MOREAU.
I know we’ve been there before, so I think I want to try something
different: a list of Robert and Marie’s descendants that lived to marry
and/or had children.
| I-- |
Robert PÉPIN and Marie CRÊTE |
| II-- |
a. |
Jean PEPIN |
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b. |
Robert PEPIN |
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c. |
Marie-Rosalie PEPIN |
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d. |
Louis PEPIN |
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IIIa-- J
e
a
n |
a. |
Marie-Marguerite PEPIN |
| b. |
Louis PEPIN |
| c. |
Charles PEPIN |
| d. |
Marie-Jeanne PEPIN |
| e. |
Marie-Thérèse PEPIN |
| f. |
Louis-Joseph PEPIN |
| g. |
Marie-Françoise PEPIN |
| h. |
Pierre PEPIN |
| i. |
Marie-Marguerite PEPIN |
| j.
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Marie-Joseph PEPIN |
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IIIb-- R
o
b
e
r
t |
k.
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Marie-Charlotte PEPIN |
| l. |
Marie-Françoise PEPIN |
| m. |
Angélique PEPIN |
| n. |
Joseph PEPIN |
| o. |
Suzanne PEPIN |
| p. |
Marie PEPIN |
| q. |
Thérèse PEPIN |
| r. |
Marie-Agnès PEPIN |
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IIIc--
M R
a o
r s
i a
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i
e |
s. |
Pierre HÉLIE |
| t. |
Françoise HÉLIE |
| u. |
Thérèse HÉLIE |
| v. |
Joseph-Philippe HÉLIE |
| w. |
Jean HÉLIE |
| x. |
Marguerite HÉLIE |
| y. |
Dorothée HÉLIE |
| z. |
Marie-Anne HÉLIE |
| aa. |
Angélique HÉLIE |
| bb. |
Catherine HÉLIE |
| cc. |
Antoine HÉLIE HÉLIE |
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IIId-- L
o
u
i
s
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dd. |
Louis-Michel PEPIN |
| ee. |
Marie-Elisabeth PEPIN |
| ff. |
Marie-Louise PEPIN |
| gg. |
Pierre PEPIN |
| hh. |
Marguerite PEPIN |
| ii. |
Jacques-François PEPIN |
| jj. |
Marie-Charlotte PEPIN |
Now this was a really great
idea, but somewhere between here and
IVjj – pppppJean-Baptiste
(SAUCIER)
I got lost and redid this
list different. Once it’s done, I’ll do generations IV & V.
If you can
add/subtract/change any of this, send it on via email.
MAILBAG
This one’s for
Chuck and Shirley.
My very first computer --a cobbled together 286)—was a side dish that came
with The Special of the Week, a great huge bowl of Lemons. It wasn’t a bad
combination. The lemons were courtesy of the traffic accident that trashed
my right wrist. With such large juicy lemons, I decided to make lemonade
and dug back into my family research, which had laid, forgot in a number
of nearly forgotten grocery bags and shoe boxes. It was the early 80s, and
most of the action was on FIDOnet.
Anyway, I dusted off the research I had done in my late teens and started
looking for new info. The Big Break came when I found a listing in the
Social Security Death index for one William PEPPAN, born in 1912. Now my
granddad, Don L. PEPPAN, had an older brother named Bill, who no one knew
a whole lot about (at least nothing those might have know would share).
Great Grand Uncle Bill was born in December of 1891, on Washington state’s
San Juan Island. He was a nice looking man. And had That Smile so many of
our Pepin men have. And he would have been 21 in 1912; the math worked.
Enter: The World Family Tree Project and submitter 3986. The 1912 William
PEPPAN was the son of a fellow named Joshua Acon PEPPAN. Though I was a
little bummed, I was far more excited that I had found another family who
spelled their last name like mine did. There were some several hoops I had
to jump through (connecting with another submitter on the World Family
Tree Project isn’t as easy as They advertise) but at last I was in touch
with one Chuck Morley, and not long after his sister Shirley, both
descendants of Joshua.
Finding Joshua’s parents has been as tricky as finding my great
grandfather Simon’s folks. In 2002, I found a census listing. To be
precise the 1860 Federal Census, film M653, Roll 630, page 98/917,
Livingston County, Missouri, 11 July, Dawn Post Office, lines 16 through
20.
In it lists one Aken PEPPAN (44), his wife Delila (42) and their three
children Bathinde (12), Elizabeth (6), and Rachel (2). Aken and the girls
were born in Missouri, but Delila was born in Tennessee.
And I wondered. In fact, I wondered enough that I posted the info on my
website, near the bottom of the page that talks about my great granddad
Simon and his wife Emma and what it took to find them. You can see the
page at (http://www.fortlangley.ca/pepin/SimonEmma.html); it includes a
picture of the 1912 William PEPPAN, also known as “Satch” Peppan, and his
sister Bessie.
So. Now. My point . . . ?
I found, in the guestbook on my website, and entry that reads, and I
quote,
“The site is wonderful. I have been working on family genealogy for over
20 years. Joshua was my great grandmother Rachel Peppin's brother. Have
lots of family info and some pictures if you are interested.”
Again, you have a great site.”
Tonja and I have been exchanging emails since then, mostly waiting for me
to get back to my computer. In her most recent email, that landed in my
inbox this morning, she says:
“ I will try to find the box that has the letter that Joshua wrote to his
sister Rachel. It is dated in the 1880's I think. Anyway you can use the
info any way you wish. I don't mind sharing with people who have
connections with the family.”
Thus as soon as I have more info, I shall first be sending the info off to
Chuck and Shirley (drop me a private email, guys), and then it’ll be going
on Joshua’s page on my website. If the familial resemblance is any
indicator, Joshua and his descendants are, as I suspected from my first
email with Chuck, close kin.
This is SO cool!
RAMBLINGS FROM THE EDITOR
I found The
Neatest Computer Toy. It’s called Google Earth. With Google Earth, you
can type in an address and it takes you there. Aerial photos, taken
from a satellite about 3 years ago. Downside, not all places have a
resolution picture so, with some of you, the area you live in is just a blur
of trees. Another downside is that the place it puts the pointers for
an address always seems to be off by two or three buildings. But it is
SO cool. I’ve gone and looked at the Eiffel Tower and Stonehenge,
Mom’s house, friend’s and relative’s homes (you were right, Robbyn, you ARE
out of town a ways). My old junior high and high school, the historic
sites I play at.
Another downside is that you needs a fairly new computer to utilize this
program. One of it features is streaming video. And, on their
web site they list the video cards their program works with. If you
are a map junkie, like I am, this is a really fun toy.
I would in fact still be looking up things --like the Great Wall of China—if
it weren’t for the fact that just before I left to look after Mom, I was
gifted with a really nice oriental rug. All the time I was gone, it
was rolled and folded and stuffed in a corner of my bedroom.
It’s your average size bedroom –9 and half feet by nine and a half feet—and,
having seen the rug on a friend’s family room floor, I figured it would be a
tight fit but it would fit. And it was a nice rug: floral and
geometric patterns of tan, black, and white on a mossy jade background.
I just couldn’t leave it stuffed in a corner, so last week I started pulling
things out of my bedroom. And as I did so, I thought to myself, “Self,
this would be The Opportune Time to catalogue your library.”
When I moved, way back when, I knew I could not take all my books. A
couple had been overwhelmed by mildew and mold (from the leaking roof and
sweaty aluminium windows on/in the mobile home I used to live in) and had to
be thrown away), and some were what I call Pleasure Reading books that would
be easily replaced and/or checked out from a library if a really felt the
need.
With great
reluctance, I stacked those Pleasure Reading books in one room and a friend
came and took them all away . . . in his full sized pickup truck. He
packed them in carefully; they fill the bed up to the rail. The rest
of my library, reduced by a good 2/3rds, I packed into boxes for the move.
And because I hadn’t kept track of what books drove away in the pickup
truck, I found and tossed the carefully kept card catalogue I’d had and
started from scratch. That was last Thursday.
It is now 6 days later. Every book I own --whether it is bound I
paper, leather, cloth wrapped cardboard or paper cover cardboard-- has been
duly entered into an Excel spread sheet. Then I discovered that it
would have been better to use Access, but <shrug> you life, you learn (and I
did learn how to link it to Access!!!)
When I entered in the very last book off the shelves that encircled my bed
room walls, I was a bit surprised. The number I came up with was
closer to the number I had guestimated on my library *BEFORE* the friend
took away a full-to-the-top-of-the-bed, full-sized pickup truck load.
That number, O Curious Reader . . . ?
1169.
Bear in mind that this does not include my magazine and comic book
collection. That weighs in at a pedestrian 162 items.
<insert lopsided grin right HERE>
I really can’t help myself; I am an info junkie.
However, I must now put all those books back on the shelves.
Then I might look for something to read.
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