About Me
I was born and raised in Vancouver, BC. As a western Canadian, I speak English. As a proud French-Canadian descendant I can read French, but am only just learning to speak it.
My life long journey included leaving the west coast of BC as a young bride of 22. As a forester, accountant and mother of 2 beautiful daughters I lived in the Okanagan valley of BC and then in northern Alberta. In 2005 I returned to the west coast to live in Victoria on Vancouver Island, nearly 30 years after leaving Vancouver.
My love of the outdoors together with long distance walking and travel has now being combined with a passion for my family ancestry.
I retired in 2016, and my travels have included long distance walking in Italy, Australia, Spain, England and India.
Since 2018 I have added an ancestral theme to my walking adventures in France and Quebec. Walking in the footsteps of my ancestors has been joyful and fascinating. I guess you could say I have fully embraced the idea put forth in “Ces Villes et villages de France” of walking and commemorating the places of our ancestral history.
In addition to ancestral long distance walking I have been researching and documenting my family ancestry for the past 4 years using the many resources available on the internet. Last fall (September 2021) I visited the BAnQ Grande Bibliothèque and the BAnQ Vieux-Montréal during a visit to Montreal. I consider myself lucky to be a French-Canadian as there are many records and lots of information readily available.
Hello Jacklyn, I stumbled across your site in my quest to flesh out my family tree by including names of ships that brought my ancestors to New France. I was very surprised and excited to see that two of your ancestors (Rene Reaume and Jean Mouflet dit Champagne) are on my family tree! I greatly appreciate the details you have included on your site! I read with interest about your ancestral walking. I am planning a trip to Montreal and will spend a day walking in the cemeteries to locate my ancestors’ graves so I can add photos of them to my tree. I would love to correspond with you about your work and I’m including my email address in case you have the time and interest to contact me. Thanks again for all of your research!
Laurie
rishworthlaurie@gmail.com
Hello Laurie You may have noted that I have taken a pause on my ancestral research and website postings for the past year due to family obligations. I plan to restart this wonderful work soon. I will reach out to you then.
pour mon bon plaisir je suis à faire un recueil d’histoires de nos ancêtres qu’ils soient Canadiens , Métis , Acadiens , Autochtones , hommes et femmes et j’ai ajouté l’histoire du Petit Beauchamp et surtout l’histoire de votre grand-mère possiblement devenue arrière-grand-mère et peut-être plus . Même quand ils ne nous sont pas directement reliés , comme c’est le cas pour votre famille et moi , tous les ancêtres nous appartiennent et à la fin nous formons une belle grande famille .
Merci pour votre commentaire. Tout à fait d’accord. Nous faisons tous partie de la famille humaine. J’ai beaucoup de recherches sur la lignée Beauchamp et je compte écrire des articles de blog à partir de ces recherches.
Hello Jacklyn, Recently I became interested in finding birth information or ship arrival information on my great grandfather, George Henri (Henry) Gouin. He was born “at sea” on a boat from France to Canada in 1854. According to US Census records, his daughter lists his birthplace as Canada.
I have looked ar various 1854 ship arrival/passenger lists thinking births “at sea” might be recorded, or if baby George’s birth was recorded somewhere in Canada. There are very few ships from France to Quebec in 1854 that are searchable online, although many ships are known to have departed from France to New France around that time. I have also checked Quebec 1854 church records thinking George’s mother might have registered her son’s birth in Quebec.
Would you have any tips to guide me in my geneological journey to locate information on great-grandfather George Gouin born in 1854? I realize it might just be too long ago to locate 1854 records passenger arrival records or birth records but it has been alot of fun learning about those who came before me. Thank you for any guidance!
Hello Nancy Thank you for question. The majority of my ancestors emigrated from France during the 17th Century! There is one line that emigrated from Belgium during the 19th Century. If you have not already tried Library and Archives Canada -here is the link: https://library-archives.canada.ca/?requestUrl=https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/ Try entering passenger lists in the search box, then you can filter on the dates, from 1850 to 1869 there are 66 records. Happy Research!
Hi! I just wanted to let you know that I enjoyed your writing on the Cote family. My grandmother was a Cote (Louise).
Her father was Gilbert, his father was Simon, his was Ambroise and so on… all which lead to my discovery of Jean Cote and his father Abraham M. Cote
I’d love if you can point me to the right direction for more information on this line? I would be the 10th Generation Great Grandson, I’m thinking? If i’m doing this correctly.
Looking forward to chatting with you!
Anthony William Romeo
Alternative email: anthonywilliamromeo@gmail.com
Hello Anthony. Thanks for writing a comment. Here is a website about the Cote family: https://association-cote.com/2011/index.php/jean-coste-lancetre/ There has been a lot of research to determine where in France Jean Cote actually originated from, his birth documentation has proved elusive to this day. Here is another website to visit: https://www.perche-quebec.com/perche/individus/cote-jean.htm
Merci beaucoup pour votre recherche exhaustive sur vos ancêtres. Notre lignée se sépare à partir de Moïse car son frère,Olivier, est mon ancêtre.
Mon fils se nomme d’ailleurs Markus-Olivier.
L’histoire des Meloche en Amérique est sans fin:premier colons dans la région de Detroit ,Cleveland etc. Premier ancêtre en Amérique ,François, est probablement un Huguenot fuyant les persécutions après l’abolition de l’édit de Nantes par Louis XIV en 1685.