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Welcome "chez la famille Julien"

One page to dedicate Julien patronymic

From Bernard Julien (Oct. 2011)

 " Short of knowing where we are going, we can still know where we come from."

To this question, the answer is often and almost always no. Most people to whom you will ask this question will be unable to answer. If you go further and ask them where their ancestors lived, what they were doing or where they came from, answers would be even more evasive. This is not out of ill will. It's even more simple: no one ever taught them these notions that make a people proud of its ancestors.

And you, maybe your child asked you a question of this kind, "Say, who was Grandpa's daddy?" Were you able to answer.... Yes.. And No..... .

Genealogy is a leisure, first and foremost. Doing one's genealogy is very simple; all it takes is a pencil, some cards and some time to do research, and not much travel besides going to a library or an archive depot.

In the end, our ancestors weren't different than us. Often, it will take a lot of insight to track and find them despite civil registry errors, unexplained disappearances and especially name and surname changes.

In genealogy we must always be prepared for everything since we must prove what we say. Thus, a genealogist must prove to be careful and intuitive.

Quebec is the only place in America where almost every family can trace, from son to father and mother, up to the first ancestor who came from Europe, thanks to the community's limited size and to the registry system that has been implemented from the very beginning of the French regime.

Genealogy... what is it really?

What does genealogy do?

Some will say, "It is the search for one's ancestors."...." It is the science of searching the origin and relation of different members of a family."

These answers are true, but too general. Furthermore, they lack precision. Some will add that this can be done through certificates of baptism, marriage and obituaries. But genealogy is much more than that. In fact, beyond relations in a direct or collateral line, one must put the flesh on the genealogical skeleton.

" The history of each family deserves to be studied and told, no matter what its social rank, ancientness, origin, tribulations, components are."

FICHIER GEDCOM

This gedcom file, contains over plus de 13436 individuals et 6145 families representing 2466 patronymics.

It includes the authour's families and his complete ascendance: the Juliens, Corriveaus, Lavallée-Paquettes, Dubois etc.

His wife's family Ginette Collette and her complete ascendance: the Collettes, Payette-St-Amours, Gougeons, Archambaults, etc.

A vast array of the Julien families of America

The family of ancestors Madeleine Guérin/Jean Julien (the most important in terms of number of people), that of Marie-Josephte Deguise/Julien Hellot or Elot, Marie Valin/Olivier-Julien Sénéchal and Madeleine Tranchant/André Julien-Arel.

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