tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40115041642078852782024-03-13T04:40:42.980-04:00Lucie's LegacyA family history blog - Remembering loved ones from the past, sharing their stories in the present, and preserving our memories for the future.Lucie LeBlanc Consentinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13480035657625949265noreply@blogger.comBlogger168125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011504164207885278.post-37239634992931486072016-11-10T05:05:00.000-05:002016-11-10T15:25:54.994-05:00George Charles White LeBlanc - Veteran's Day 2016 - <span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0lOX03NAhDuW0QYgXWJGcobgnxoLuBLSmA9qJ4fO3g4Z3lfYr27VODMslhhKwKswmVLsLf8DDLy-Xel4Rh4PsIcfhw_-2jUzI8LqprTXC-OukpvCW9oLDx5bniAyTuZ1FMH5jcMyxpEQ6/s1600-h/george-1916.gif" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="color: black;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339735394725725266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0lOX03NAhDuW0QYgXWJGcobgnxoLuBLSmA9qJ4fO3g4Z3lfYr27VODMslhhKwKswmVLsLf8DDLy-Xel4Rh4PsIcfhw_-2jUzI8LqprTXC-OukpvCW9oLDx5bniAyTuZ1FMH5jcMyxpEQ6/s320/george-1916.gif" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 288px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 180px;" /></a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: black;">This Veterans Day, we remember all of our military past and present especially those who fought two wars to keep us all free from terrorists who harm the innocent and resent the freedoms we enjoy.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"> These numbers might need to be updated but I recall that 6,717 </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;">men and women in the U.S. military have died since the wars began in Iraq and Afghanistan; 50,987 wounded - this does not even account for the military from other countries who have made the ultimate sacrifice so that their loved ones and the citizens of their countries might live free. </span> <span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;">Today, we remember them all and we are grateful as individuals, as Americans and as citizens of the world!</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;">My father, George Charles LeBlanc knew something about fighting for our freedoms that we have long enjoyed. The photo above captures him in his World War I uniform. He fought with Yankee Division.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;">It was said at the time that World War I was the war to end all wars. How wonderful if that had been true. It was a war that incurred many deaths and a great many wounded.</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0V7FQvnV5XSrJo9cvyoIcQqHpdsEu0DmkcD25L-9K0fmX2ioOCFJ4TW1wevWyqigBZ0cQ4aZEyjd-5VGiLb2h5PdEQoTNmJEB5dcHfDiGtDkmUNrSvHcmA0TfSjdovC6FCrhFf_nYjrLz/s1600-h/YDPatch.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="color: black;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339739927348854194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0V7FQvnV5XSrJo9cvyoIcQqHpdsEu0DmkcD25L-9K0fmX2ioOCFJ4TW1wevWyqigBZ0cQ4aZEyjd-5VGiLb2h5PdEQoTNmJEB5dcHfDiGtDkmUNrSvHcmA0TfSjdovC6FCrhFf_nYjrLz/s320/YDPatch.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 150px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 152px;" /></a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;">Members of the Yankee Division were cast into the worse of the battles. </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;">Activated and Inducted into Federal Service: July 1917 (National Guard Division from </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut" style="color: black;" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;">, </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine" style="color: black;" title="Maine">Maine</a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;">, </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts" style="color: black;" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;">, </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire" style="color: black;" title="New Hampshire">New Hampshire</a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;">, </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhode_Island" style="color: black;" title="Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;">, and </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont" style="color: black;" title="Vermont">Vermont</a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;">).<br />
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Overseas: October 1917.<br />
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Major Operations: </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_the_Marne" style="color: black;" title="Second Battle of the Marne">Champagne-Marne</a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;">, </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Battle_of_the_Aisne" style="color: black;" title="Third Battle of the Aisne">Aisne-Marne</a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;">, </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mihiel" style="color: black;" title="St. Mihiel">St. Mihiel</a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;">, </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meuse-Argonne" style="color: black;" title="Meuse-Argonne">Meuse-Argonne</a></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: 100%;">Days of combat: 210</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 100%;">Casualties: Total-13,664</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 100%;">Killed in action: 1,587</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Inactivated, and returned to National Guard service: May 1919</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;">The Yankee Division was re-activated in World War II and continues as a viable part of the military today.<br />
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As an aside, one day while searching for information regarding the 26th Yankee Division, I came across a photo on E-bay that was for sale by Zazzle. Zazzle has purchased many photos from the National Archives and have made "reasonable" sizes of the photos available for purchase. I say "reasonable" because an inquiry I made to the National Archives informed me that 1. the originals photos as huge landscape size photos and 2. very expensive if purchased from the archives.<br />
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Zazzle had two sizes of the photo I wanted. The photo is of the final review at Fort Devens, Massachusetts before the Yankee Division was inactivated after World War I. It is a great photo and I know that my Dad is "somewhere" among all of the military on the parade grounds for the last time.<br />
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I decided to inquire as to whether the company might have a photo of the company my Dad was part of - they did not but they purchased it from the National Archives and a few months later I was able to purchase a copy from Zazzle. Amazingly, what could have cost me in the hundreds of dollars from the National Archives cost me only $25 and $35 respectively in a much more manageable size that I framed and that hang on the wall in this, my work space or home office as some might call it. Next to those two photos is the photo of my Dad in his World War I uniform <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE2f5m9f_qzm_cLkrpclbslmVPDdkkZIp5mgS8J11mtTuFdBYziHJSym2omsn46h6UOI5uzwA8cok0iXVrPwIIO-H4QZn6KoHku9x2FZ4fslb-DGpKYvzBwcNvypPItjiM8K0RLWt0-Lm7/s1600-h/Victory-Medal.gif" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339745120599009346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE2f5m9f_qzm_cLkrpclbslmVPDdkkZIp5mgS8J11mtTuFdBYziHJSym2omsn46h6UOI5uzwA8cok0iXVrPwIIO-H4QZn6KoHku9x2FZ4fslb-DGpKYvzBwcNvypPItjiM8K0RLWt0-Lm7/s320/Victory-Medal.gif" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 213px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 144px;" /></a> encased in a frame that also holds his Victory Medal with clasps or bars described as follows: "</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">battle clasps were awarded for each of the major operations for individuals actually present under competent orders. The clasps, with a star on each side of the name of the campaign or one of the defensive sectors, were worn on the suspension ribbon."</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">To the right is what the WWI Victory Medal looks like. I was able to find this on the Internet - my father's medal has four clasps representing the four battles he fought in. I treasure the fact that my mother kept my father's enlistment and discharge papers, including his medal, safely among her treasured items.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 85%;">[ I sometimes see these things on E-bay and people just do not realize the history they've given away. Some of these items can never again be retrieved in any way. A few years ago I tried to obtain new copies of my father's papers. There had been a fire some years ago where the military records were housed. My father's papers were among those lost in that fire. So had my mother not kept these I would never have known my father's military history.]</span></span></span><br />
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World War I sources: Wikipedia, Free pages military on Ancestry.com, <a href="http://www.zazzle.com/102nd_supply_company_yankee_photo_1917_poster-228620142652792221" target="_new">Zazzle Company</a><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;">Patriotic holidays bring back great memories of when I was growing up. As children, we would be playing out in the yard and suddenly we would hear the drum and bugle corps coming up the street. Yup, a parade! It just seems to me that everyone was so patriotic back then. We didn't need a war to bind us together and to be proud of who we were. I was so impressed with my family's patriotism that I have always been very patriotic as has been my husband and his family.<br />
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Family cookouts were great but if we had not been celebrating something American, we would not have been gathering to remember. I hope every child grows up knowing what it is to be bound together with the pride of being American.</span></span></span><br />
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</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: black;">No matter our country, we should always remember the brave men and women who fought that we might all be free - and... don't forget to thank a Veteran for his or her service!</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">September 11th, 2001 will long be remembered as one of the most horrific days in the history of the United States.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">I've no doubt that everyone remembers where they were when news hit the air waves that a plane had crashed into one of the towers in New York City.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">I was at the American-Canadian Genealogical Society for a meeting with the Fall Conference Committee. One member walked in and said a plane had hit one of the towers. Not believing for one moment there was anything sinister involved, I remember telling her that some ridiculous person must have tried a stunt of some kind. We went about our business, but as other members arrived, it was clear that the United States of America had been attacked and a second plane had crashed into the second tower. Then there was the plane brought down in Pennsylvania.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">We quickly ended our meeting and headed home. I still remember how desolate the highway was coming home to Methuen from Manchester, New Hampshire. Though not all that long a drive, this highway is usually teaming with some kind of traffic all day long. It was obvious everyone who could was off the highways and in a "safe" place.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">When I arrived home our daughter who is a college professor in Boston was there and told me she had called the college and they were allowing their staff to remain at home. Nobody else knew if more attacks would take place and those two airline jets had flown out of Boston.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">All afternoon we watched television and saw the devastation played over and over again - we saw people searching all over NYC in search of loved ones who worked in the towers and financial district. Mid afternoon as the list of names that had been passengers on both airlines were listed on the television screen, we could not believe that some people from our town were among them and even worse, one of our neighbors Doug Gowell</span><b><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;"></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuMmsHHghI_WDFwwxzwpeVrxapSA3sh_mpYGDC1GUPsDal_03RCaJPUaDlmRdeey8nK5zu1GAWRUDvuJgauTWyBLQH02CVcPf92HcJB2-53hxvBeji9yQNQGsbzKWEyboR7rB7F_viRcFl/s1600-h/Doug-Gowell.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380098753410291090" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuMmsHHghI_WDFwwxzwpeVrxapSA3sh_mpYGDC1GUPsDal_03RCaJPUaDlmRdeey8nK5zu1GAWRUDvuJgauTWyBLQH02CVcPf92HcJB2-53hxvBeji9yQNQGsbzKWEyboR7rB7F_viRcFl/s320/Doug-Gowell.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 175px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 149px;" /></a></span></b><span style="color: black;">was on the United flight 175 . I think just about everyone somewhere was affected by the loss of a family member, neighbor or acquaintance that day as so many lives were lost.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">I still get pretty emotional when I remember how for so many nights Doug's wife Barbara would put a candle out on the front porch as though waiting for Doug to come home from his business trip . It was heart wrenching.</span> <span style="color: black;">Just the night before flew out of Boston, I saw him working in front of their home; I also remember the limo driving in front of our house the morning of that fateful flight - Doug was on his way to Logan Airport in Boston.</span><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: black;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJpWZUL9UF5pkR77IhHu0ZzfMGYX5AkrpTbwji-NocxV9gZr4kAzwImfcFq5ophbS2aimbPNQLAHeMyCIev4gWMU654Pj_WPoBPa7l2YBVGX_ZQhvzEhp-ZUUuCoS4OLUgin4ZolR4Cp7G/s1600-h/Robert-G-LeBlanc.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380106965636944722" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJpWZUL9UF5pkR77IhHu0ZzfMGYX5AkrpTbwji-NocxV9gZr4kAzwImfcFq5ophbS2aimbPNQLAHeMyCIev4gWMU654Pj_WPoBPa7l2YBVGX_ZQhvzEhp-ZUUuCoS4OLUgin4ZolR4Cp7G/s320/Robert-G-LeBlanc.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 110px;" /></a></span></span></b><span style="color: black;">Robert George LeBlanc of Lee, New Hamsphire was on the same flight as Doug. Robert is well known to us in the Acadian community. A Geography Professor at New Hampshire College, Robert was the creator of the map Acadian Odyssey.</span><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: black;"> </span><br /><span style="color: #000099;">The memories of that day are imbedded in our minds, hearts and souls forever.</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: black;">So on today, the anniversary of this attack on our country and the loss of so many Americans and visitors to our country, we will pause to remember all who died that fateful September 11th. Below is a list of those who were on the American and United airlines flights... May they rest in peace. We stand with their families and the efforts they have made these past ten years to keep the memory of their loved ones alive. </span><b><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;"> </span></b><br />
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<b>from Boston, Massachusetts on way to Los Angeles, California</b><br />
<b>crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center with 92 people on board.</b></div>
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Barbara Arestegui, 38, Marstons Mills, Massachusetts<br />
Karen A. Martin, 40, Danvers, Mass.<br />
First Officer Thomas McGuinness, 42, Portsmouth, New Hampshire<br />
Kathleen Nicosia, 54, Winthrop, Mass.<br />
John Ogonowski, 52, Dracut, Massachusetts<br />
Betty Ong, 45, Andover, Massachusetts<br />
Jean Roger, 24, Longmeadow, Massachusetts<br />
Dianne Snyder, 42, Westport, Massachusetts<br />
Madeline Sweeney, 35, Acton, Massachusetts</div>
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Anna Williams Allison, 48, Stoneham, Massachusetts<br />
Myra Aronson, 52, Charlestown, Massachusetts<br />
Christine Barbuto, 32, Brookline, Massachusetts<br />
Kelly Ann Booms, 24, Brookline, Mass.<br />
Carol Bouchard, 43, Warwick, Rhode Island<br />
Neilie Anne Heffernan Casey, 32, Wellesley, Massachusetts<br />
Jeffrey Coombs, 42, Abington, Massachusetts<br />
Tara Creamer, 30, Worcester, Massachusetts<br />
Thelma Cuccinello, 71, Wilmot, New Hampshire<br />
Patrick Currivan, 52, Winchester, Mass.<br />
David DiMeglio, 22, Wakefield, Mass.<br />
Donald Americo DiTullio, 49, Peabody, Mass.<br />
Paige Farley-Hackel, 46, Newton, Mass.<br />
Alex Filipov, 70, Concord, Massachusetts<br />
Carol Flyzik, 40, Plaistow, N.H.<br />
Paul Friedman, 45, Belmont, Massachusetts<br />
Karleton D.B. Fyfe, 31, Brookline, Massachusetts<br />
Peter Gay, 54, Tewksbury, Massachusetts<br />
Linda George, 27, Westboro, Massachusetts<br />
Lisa Fenn Gordenstein, 41, Needham, Massachusetts<br />
Peter Hashem, 40, Tewksbury, Massachusetts<br />
Robert Hayes, 37, from Amesbury, Massachusetts<br />
Edward (Ted) R. Hennessy, 35, Belmont, Mass.<br />
Cora Hidalgo Holland, 52, of Sudbury, Massachusetts<br />
Nicholas Humber, 60, of Newton, Massachusetts<br />
John Charles Jenkins, 45, Cambridge, Mass.<br />
Charles Edward Jones, 48, Bedford, Mass.<br />
Robin Kaplan, 33, Westboro, Massachusetts<br />
David P. Kovalcin, 42, Hudson, New Hampshire<br />
Judy Larocque, 50, Framingham, Mass.<br />
Natalie Janis Lasden, 46, Peabody, Mass.<br />
Daniel C. Lewin, 31, Charlestown, Mass.<br />
Susan A. MacKay, 44, Westford, Massachusetts<br />
Christopher D. Mello, 25, Boston, Mass.<br />
Antonio Jesus Montoya Valdes, 46, East Boston, Mass.<br />
Carlos Alberto Montoya, 36, Bellmont, Mass.<br />
Laura Lee Morabito, 34, Framingham, Massachusetts<br />
Mildred Rose Naiman, 81, Andover, Mass.<br />
Renee Newell, 37, of Cranston, Rhode Island<br />
Jacqueline J. Norton, 61, Lubec, Maine<br />
Robert Grant Norton, 85, Lubec, Maine<br />
Jane M. Orth, 49, Haverhill, Mass.<br />
Sonia Morales Puopolo, 58, of Dover, Massachusetts<br />
David E. Retik, 33, Needham, Mass.<br />
Philip M. Rosenzweig, 47, Acton, Mass.<br />
Richard Ross, 58, Newton, Massachusetts<br />
Jessica Sachs, 22, Billerica, Massachusetts<br />
Rahma Salie, 28, Boston, Mass.<br />
Heather Lee Smith, 30, Boston, Mass.<br />
Douglas J. Stone, 54, Dover, N.H<br />
Michael Theodoridis, 32, Boston, Mass.<br />
James Trentini, 65, Everett, Massachusetts<br />
Mary Trentini, 67, Everett, Massachusetts<br />
Kenneth Waldie, 46, Methuen, Massachusetts<br />
Candace Lee Williams, 20, Danbury, Conn.<br />
Christopher Zarba, 47, Hopkinton, Massachusetts</div>
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Amy N. Jarret, 28, North Smithfield, R.I.</div>
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Amy R. King, 29, Stafford Springs, Conn.</div>
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Kathryn L. LaBorie, 44, Providence, R.I.</div>
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Michael C. Tarrou, 38, Stafford Springs, Conn.
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Garnet Edward (Ace) Bailey, 54, Lynnfield, Mass.</div>
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Mark Bavis, 31, West Newton, Mass.</div>
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Graham Andrew Berkeley, 37, Boston, Mass.</div>
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John Brett Cahill, 56, Wellesley, Mass.</div>
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Christoffer Carstanjen, 33, Turner Falls, Mass.</div>
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John (Jay) J. Corcoran, 43, Norwell, Mass</div>
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Lynn Catherine Goodchild, 25, Attleboro, Mass.</div>
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Peter Morgan Goodrich, 33, Sudbury, Mass.</div>
<b><span style="color: #000099;">Douglas A. Gowell, 52, Methuen, Mass.</span></b><br />
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The Rev. Francis E. Grogan, 76, of Easton, Mass.</div>
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Carl Max Hammond, 37, Derry, N.H.</div>
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Peter Hanson, 32, Groton, Mass.</div>
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Sue Kim Hanson, 35, Groton, Mass.</div>
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Christine Lee Hanson, 2, Groton, Mass.</div>
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Eric Samadikan Hartono, 20, Boston, Mass.</div>
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James E. Hayden, 47, Westford, Mass.</div>
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Herbert W. Homer, 48, Milford, Mass.</div>
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Robert Adrien Jalbert, 61, Swampscott, Mass.</div>
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Ralph Francis Kershaw, 52, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass.</div>
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Brian Kinney, 29, Lowell, Mass.</div>
<b><span style="color: #000099;">Robert George LeBlanc, 70, Lee, N.H.</span></b><br />
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Maclovio Lopez, Jr., 41, Norwalk, Calif.</div>
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Marianne MacFarlane, 34, Revere, Mass.</div>
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Louis Neil Mariani, 59, Derry, N.H.</div>
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Juliana Valentine McCourt, 4, New London, Conn.</div>
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Ruth Magdaline McCourt, 45, New London, Conn.</div>
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Shawn M. Nassaney, 25, Pawtucket, R.I.</div>
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Patrick Quigley, 40, of Wellesley, Mass.</div>
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Frederick Charles Rimmele, 32, Marblehead, Mass.</div>
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James M. Roux, 43, Portland, Maine</div>
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Jesus Sanchez, 45, Hudson, Mass.</div>
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Mary Kathleen Shearer, 61, Dover, N.H.</div>
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Robert Michael Shearer, 63, Dover, N.H.</div>
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Jane Louise Simpkin, 36, Wayland, Mass.</div>
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Brian D. Sweeney, 38, Barnstable, Mass.</div>
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William M. Weems, 46, Marblehead, Mass.</div>
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<b>UNITED AIRLINES FLIGHT 93 </b></div>
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<b>from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco, California,</b><br />
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All victims of a senseless attack, they and all who died that day were American martyrs! We shall never forget!<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">Peace and love to all of their families. </span></div>
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<br />Lucie LeBlanc Consentinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13480035657625949265noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011504164207885278.post-55536450625269709742016-05-07T15:00:00.000-04:002016-05-08T06:04:07.184-04:00Mama and Me<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFvnY-kaX5Ol6s6hWMo_o2moC21pJVWdqrM2U5yZxoXm9knOJy2WJadW3n2qvuS29ZjAfSCSWWA3YGXsl4wy-Wgd9gwj3zMqzrLJfCm3dPcPm0WR4aFFB-bhpkm6kbNQ1eRDpX0RzX5O7C/s1600-h/lucieros-2.gif" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331612743835288866" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFvnY-kaX5Ol6s6hWMo_o2moC21pJVWdqrM2U5yZxoXm9knOJy2WJadW3n2qvuS29ZjAfSCSWWA3YGXsl4wy-Wgd9gwj3zMqzrLJfCm3dPcPm0WR4aFFB-bhpkm6kbNQ1eRDpX0RzX5O7C/s320/lucieros-2.gif" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 144px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 201px;" /></a><br />
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When I was a little girl, I thought there was nobody more wonderful and special than my mother who we fondly called "Mama". Of course, I suppose children feel that way about their mothers and why wouldn't they? Parents are their whole world. As infants, toddlers and young children, we ultimately rely on our parents to fulfill our every need. My parents were no different.. especially Mama</div>
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Growing up in a French-Canadian ethnic neighborhood was the best. Why? Because we grew up with all of our aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents. Families today do not often have that same kind of connection.</div>
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Our parish church was in our neighborhood as were all businesses owned by French-Candians and that allowed our immigrant grandparents to take care of business in their customary language which was French. So whether they went grocery shopping, were in need of pharmacy or other services, attending church (which was most important to them), they could conduct business comfortably in their mother tongue with which they had spoken since they had been born in French speaking province of Quebec. Dubrule Pharmacy was where they had prescriptions filled. As children we loved going to Dubrules because there was a soda fountain. We enjoyed many ice cream cones in the summer and ice cream sundaes on Sunday afternoons. Each ethnic neigborhood had its own grocery stores, fish markets, fruit stores etc. These neighborhoods were great microcosms of the larger world but best of all we felt safe. Our doors were never locked and nobody was a stranger to us.<br />
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When searching for teachers to staff Ste-Anne parish school, the leaders of the parish wanted bilingual teachers to teach the children in both English and French languages. I believe we were pretty fortunate to grow up in that kind of situation with our heritage always at the forefront of their minds. Since our great-grandparents and grandparents were the founders and leaders of the parish, had they not insisted on this, a part of who we were as Franco-Americans would have been lost. Admittedly, as children we didn't realize just how fortunate we were.<br />
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From "baby room" (called kindergarten today) through 8th grade we were taught in two languages. No, we did not have a French "period" or "class" in those days. Rather we had a half day of English and a half day of French. During French classes we were taught the catechism, church history, French grammar, spelling and literature. During English classes, we were taught the usual classes of reading, grammar, spelling, writing, and arithmetic. Of course, classes did not begin at 8:00 a.m. and end at 2:00 p.m. as they often do today. We were in school from 7:45 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. until the schedule was changed to 3:00 p.m. half way through elementary school.<br />
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To their credit, les Soeurs du Bon-Pasteur de Québec/Sisters of the Good Shepherd of Quebec who had a provincial house in Maine did a great job. Some of the nuns/teachers were from Quebec while others were Americans. We had the best of both. How fortunate we were to be fluent in both French and English. As a child I spoke French before I spoke English and I do suppose that was because my Mémère and Pépère (grandmother and grandfather) lived next door for a while and Mémère Lévesque used to baby sit me quite a bit. Wherever we went in our neighborhood we could converse in French at anytime. Of course, like all young American children, we had a tendency to speak in English more than French. My parents were both both in Massachusetts so speaking in either language was a lark. My parents wanted us to be well versed in English so we would be true Americans.<br />
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Thanks to them, we have grown up as true Americans but today we long for those days when there was someone with whom we could speak in the tongue of our grandparents and forebears.<br />
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I digress.. growing up with Maman was both interesting and fun for us as children. Just about every summer Sunday the extended family would go to Canobie Lake for a family picnic. Most of us had no automobiles so we would all take the bus that we could board at the corner of our street and head out for the day. Most often we would go to 6:00 a.m. Mass and be on the 7:15 a.m. bus so we could get the picnic tables closest to the lake while at other times we would arrive just early enough to reserve a kiosk so we would be in the shade if it was going to be a very hot day. Everything depended on how fast the bus could get us there. Usually the bus would have a hard time making the hill as we approached the road to Canobie. Buses were not what they are today!<br />
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At the end of the day, our extended family would take the last bus home at 10:00 p.m. and sing all the way home. It was great fun for us kids and everyone on the bus seemed to enjoy our renditions.<br />
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In those days going to Canobie Lake was free admission and it was still a pretty rustic forest full of big pine trees. We would tie our bottles of drinks together and lower them into the lake to keep them cool. There were no coolers then.<br />
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There were a few amusement rides and a few food booths and life was simple. Today it is quite expensive at Canobie because there are mega rides available. I'd take the good old days anytime.<br />
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Of course, as great as Mama was in getting us ready for the day and sending us off on the bus with my brother and sister so we would arrive with the rest of the family, she always came later. I don't remember her ever being ready to leave when it was time to go. But that was part of who she was. Her main purpose was to get us ready so we could have a fun day from beginning to end. She would usually arrive at the Lake a couple of hours later with my Mémère who would usually go to 8:00 a.m. Mass.<br />
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Once in a while we would spend a Sunday at Salisbury Beach. That was more unusual though. Canobie was only a half hour from home in those days whereas Salisbury was an hour by bus. Today you can get to Canobie in 10-15 minutes by car and Salisbury in 35-40 minutes depending on traffic.<br />
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Wherever we went Mama made sure we had a good time. She loved to laugh, tease and have fun. She always put me on the "dobbie horses" aka carousel. At certain times of the day or evening you could try to "catch" a "gold" ring as the dobbies passed a certain area. If you could grab onto one you got a free ride. I didn't get one often because I loved the dobbie horses that went up and down - the ones closest to the edge of the carousel did not move. Often parents would stand there to grab a ring for their child to get a free ride. I just loved the dobbie horses so much that I used to fantasize owning my own horse some day.<br />
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Now at Canobie Lake there was a "fortune teller". My mother and aunts would go have their fortunes told. You know it was taboo in those days but they did it for fun and didn't believe a word the fortune teller would say. One day when they were done having their fortunes told, my father told us that his mother used to be a fortune teller. Everybody laughed and thought he was joking. I never knew my grandmother Odille because she died at age 42 when my father was just a young boy. Let me tell you though that as I plodded through our family history, one day I went to the public library to look through City Directories and lo and behold my grandmother was listed as a "clairvoyant" aka fortune teller. So my father was right. I sure wish I'd known her! Not because she claimed to be a clairvoyant but rather because she did what she must to help support a large family. I see her as having been a very strong woman doing what needed doing to help her family survive. They were very poor and when she died there was no money for a grave. She is buried with in a grave belonging to friends of the family.<br />
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So that is also how I always perceived my Mama to be: a very strong woman from who I learned much about surviving the ups and downs of every day life and hanging in there when things were difficult.<br />
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As Mama grew older and more frail I realized that my perception of how strong a person she was might not be entirely true or correct - I wondered whether or not I was mistaken. As she shared some of her fears and concerns in her aging years, I realized more and more that she imparted to me the strengths she would have wanted for herself in the up and down years of her life: however, no matter what she thought of and for herself, she had a greater and deeper strength than she ever imagined.<br />
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I am the last of six children. Three children died at young ages. My two oldest siblings, Rita and Emile died one month apart at ages 3 and 4. A year later my sister Claudia was born, three years later my brother Albert, two years later my brother Alphee who died the age of 9 months. Five years later I was born.<br />
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One time I remember my father telling me that when their children passed away, Mama would just sit in a rocker with their toys rocking back and forth. They had died of whooping cough which was untreatable back then. When I was under a two years old I contracted scarlet fever. Quarantined to the hospital during that illness when I returned home my Mama patiently taught me once again to walk as I had been so decimated from the illness that I could not walk and was not "talking" much for an 18 month old.<br />
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There was never a day that passed when she did not tell us how much she loved us no matter how old we were and no matter how ill she was at the end of her life. Today I do the same with our daughters and now our grandsons.<br />
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So in spite of the lack of strength she thought lacking, Mama was a much stronger woman than she believed herself to be and I attribute so much of who I am because of who she was in my life.<br />
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Mama I love you and think of you every day. Here is a photo of what I look like today with your four great grandchildren, Theo, Alexander, Xavier (Rebecca's children) and Mil (Sarah's son). Watch over us all! With all our love...<br />
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Lucie LeBlanc Consentinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13480035657625949265noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011504164207885278.post-27445652577757526592015-11-11T05:00:00.000-05:002015-11-11T05:04:58.318-05:00Veterans Day 2015<span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0lOX03NAhDuW0QYgXWJGcobgnxoLuBLSmA9qJ4fO3g4Z3lfYr27VODMslhhKwKswmVLsLf8DDLy-Xel4Rh4PsIcfhw_-2jUzI8LqprTXC-OukpvCW9oLDx5bniAyTuZ1FMH5jcMyxpEQ6/s1600-h/george-1916.gif" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="color: black;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339735394725725266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0lOX03NAhDuW0QYgXWJGcobgnxoLuBLSmA9qJ4fO3g4Z3lfYr27VODMslhhKwKswmVLsLf8DDLy-Xel4Rh4PsIcfhw_-2jUzI8LqprTXC-OukpvCW9oLDx5bniAyTuZ1FMH5jcMyxpEQ6/s320/george-1916.gif" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 288px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 180px;" /></a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: black;">This Veterans Day, we remember all of our military past and present especially those who fought two wars to keep us all free from terrorists who harm the innocent and resent the freedoms we enjoy.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"> These numbers might need to be updated but I recall that 6,717 </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;">men and women in the U.S. military have died since the wars began in Iraq and Afghanistan; 50,987 wounded - this does not even account for the military from other countries who have made the ultimate sacrifice so that their loved ones and the citizens of their countries might live free. </span> <span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;">Today, we remember them all and we are grateful as individuals, as Americans and as citizens of the world!</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;">My father, George Charles LeBlanc knew something about fighting for our freedoms that we have long enjoyed. The photo above captures him in his World War I uniform. He fought with Yankee Division.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;">It was said at the time that World War I was the war to end all wars. How wonderful if that had been true. It was a war that incurred many deaths and a great many wounded.</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />
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</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;">Activated and Inducted into Federal Service: July 1917 (National Guard Division from </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut" style="color: black;" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;">, </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine" style="color: black;" title="Maine">Maine</a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;">, </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts" style="color: black;" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;">, </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire" style="color: black;" title="New Hampshire">New Hampshire</a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;">, </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhode_Island" style="color: black;" title="Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;">, and </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont" style="color: black;" title="Vermont">Vermont</a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;">).<br />
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Overseas: October 1917.<br />
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Major Operations: </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_the_Marne" style="color: black;" title="Second Battle of the Marne">Champagne-Marne</a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;">, </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Battle_of_the_Aisne" style="color: black;" title="Third Battle of the Aisne">Aisne-Marne</a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;">, </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mihiel" style="color: black;" title="St. Mihiel">St. Mihiel</a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;">, </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meuse-Argonne" style="color: black;" title="Meuse-Argonne">Meuse-Argonne</a></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: 100%;">Days of combat: 210</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 100%;">Casualties: Total-13,664</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 100%;">Killed in action: 1,587</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Inactivated, and returned to National Guard service: May 1919</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;">The Yankee Division was re-activated in World War II and continues as a viable part of the military today.<br />
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As an aside, one day while searching for information regarding the 26th Yankee Division, I came across a photo on E-bay that was for sale by Zazzle. Zazzle has purchased many photos from the National Archives and have made "reasonable" sizes of the photos available for purchase. I say "reasonable" because an inquiry I made to the National Archives informed me that 1. the originals photos as huge landscape size photos and 2. very expensive if purchased from the archives.<br />
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Zazzle had two sizes of the photo I wanted. The photo is of the final review at Fort Devens, Massachusetts before the Yankee Division was inactivated after World War I. It is a great photo and I know that my Dad is "somewhere" among all of the military on the parade grounds for the last time.<br />
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I decided to inquire as to whether the company might have a photo of the company my Dad was part of - they did not but they purchased it from the National Archives and a few months later I was able to purchase a copy from Zazzle. Amazingly, what could have cost me in the hundreds of dollars from the National Archives cost me only $25 and $35 respectively in a much more manageable size that I framed and that hang on the wall in this, my work space or home office as some might call it. Next to those two photos is the photo of my Dad in his World War I uniform <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE2f5m9f_qzm_cLkrpclbslmVPDdkkZIp5mgS8J11mtTuFdBYziHJSym2omsn46h6UOI5uzwA8cok0iXVrPwIIO-H4QZn6KoHku9x2FZ4fslb-DGpKYvzBwcNvypPItjiM8K0RLWt0-Lm7/s1600-h/Victory-Medal.gif" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339745120599009346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE2f5m9f_qzm_cLkrpclbslmVPDdkkZIp5mgS8J11mtTuFdBYziHJSym2omsn46h6UOI5uzwA8cok0iXVrPwIIO-H4QZn6KoHku9x2FZ4fslb-DGpKYvzBwcNvypPItjiM8K0RLWt0-Lm7/s320/Victory-Medal.gif" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 213px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 144px;" /></a> encased in a frame that also holds his Victory Medal with clasps or bars described as follows: "</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">battle clasps were awarded for each of the major operations for individuals actually present under competent orders. The clasps, with a star on each side of the name of the campaign or one of the defensive sectors, were worn on the suspension ribbon."</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">To the right is what the WWI Victory Medal looks like. I was able to find this on the Internet - my father's medal has four clasps representing the four battles he fought in. I treasure the fact that my mother kept my father's enlistment and discharge papers, including his medal, safely among her treasured items.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 85%;">[ I sometimes see these things on E-bay and people just do not realize the history they've given away. Some of these items can never again be retrieved in any way. A few years ago I tried to obtain new copies of my father's papers. There had been a fire some years ago where the military records were housed. My father's papers were among those lost in that fire. So had my mother not kept these I would never have known my father's military history.]</span></span></span><br />
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World War I sources: Wikipedia, Free pages military on Ancestry.com, <a href="http://www.zazzle.com/102nd_supply_company_yankee_photo_1917_poster-228620142652792221" target="_new">Zazzle Company</a><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;">Patriotic holidays bring back great memories of when I was growing up. As children, we would be playing out in the yard and suddenly we would hear the drum and bugle corps coming up the street. Yup, a parade! It just seems to me that everyone was so patriotic back then. We didn't need a war to bind us together and to be proud of who we were. I was so impressed with my family's patriotism that I have always been very patriotic as has been my husband and his family.<br />
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Family cookouts were great but if we had not been celebrating something American, we would not have been gathering to remember. I hope every child grows up knowing what it is to be bound together with the pride of being American.</span></span></span><br />
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</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: black;">No matter our country, we should always remember the brave men and women who fought that we might all be free - and... don't forget to thank a Veteran for his or her service!</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">September 11th, 2001 will long be remembered as one of the most horrific days in the history of the United States.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">I've no doubt that everyone remembers where they were when news hit the air waves that a plane had crashed into one of the towers in New York City.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">I was at the American-Canadian Genealogical Society for a meeting with the Fall Conference Committee. One member walked in and said a plane had hit one of the towers. Not believing for one moment there was anything sinister involved, I remember telling her that some ridiculous person must have tried a stunt of some kind. We went about our business, but as other members arrived, it was clear that the United States of America had been attacked and a second plane had crashed into the second tower. Then there was the plane brought down in Pennsylvania.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">We quickly ended our meeting and headed home. I still remember how desolate the highway was coming home to Methuen from Manchester, New Hampshire. Though not all that long a drive, this highway is usually teaming with some kind of traffic all day long. It was obvious everyone who could was off the highways and in a "safe" place.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">When I arrived home our daughter who is a college professor in Boston was there and told me she had called the college and they were allowing their staff to remain at home. Nobody else knew if more attacks would take place and those two airline jets had flown out of Boston.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">All afternoon we watched television and saw the devastation played over and over again - we saw people searching all over NYC in search of loved ones who worked in the towers and financial district. Mid afternoon as the list of names that had been passengers on both airlines were listed on the television screen, we could not believe that some people from our town were among them and even worse, one of our neighbors Doug Gowell</span><b><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;"></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuMmsHHghI_WDFwwxzwpeVrxapSA3sh_mpYGDC1GUPsDal_03RCaJPUaDlmRdeey8nK5zu1GAWRUDvuJgauTWyBLQH02CVcPf92HcJB2-53hxvBeji9yQNQGsbzKWEyboR7rB7F_viRcFl/s1600-h/Doug-Gowell.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuMmsHHghI_WDFwwxzwpeVrxapSA3sh_mpYGDC1GUPsDal_03RCaJPUaDlmRdeey8nK5zu1GAWRUDvuJgauTWyBLQH02CVcPf92HcJB2-53hxvBeji9yQNQGsbzKWEyboR7rB7F_viRcFl/s320/Doug-Gowell.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380098753410291090" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 175px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 149px;" /></a></span></b><span style="color: black;">was on the United flight 175 . I think just about everyone somewhere was affected by the loss of a family member, neighbor or acquaintance that day as so many lives were lost.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">I still get pretty emotional when I remember how for so many nights Doug's wife Barbara would put a candle out on the front porch as though waiting for Doug to come home from his business trip . It was heart wrenching.</span> <span style="color: black;">Just the night before flew out of Boston, I saw him working in front of their home; I also remember the limo driving in front of our house the morning of that fateful flight - Doug was on his way to Logan Airport in Boston.</span><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: black;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJpWZUL9UF5pkR77IhHu0ZzfMGYX5AkrpTbwji-NocxV9gZr4kAzwImfcFq5ophbS2aimbPNQLAHeMyCIev4gWMU654Pj_WPoBPa7l2YBVGX_ZQhvzEhp-ZUUuCoS4OLUgin4ZolR4Cp7G/s1600-h/Robert-G-LeBlanc.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJpWZUL9UF5pkR77IhHu0ZzfMGYX5AkrpTbwji-NocxV9gZr4kAzwImfcFq5ophbS2aimbPNQLAHeMyCIev4gWMU654Pj_WPoBPa7l2YBVGX_ZQhvzEhp-ZUUuCoS4OLUgin4ZolR4Cp7G/s320/Robert-G-LeBlanc.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380106965636944722" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 110px;" /></a></span></span></b><span style="color: black;">Robert George LeBlanc of Lee, New Hamsphire was on the same flight as Doug. Robert is well known to us in the Acadian community. A Geography Professor at New Hampshire College, Robert was the creator of the map Acadian Odyssey.</span><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: black;"> </span><br /><span style="color: #000099;">The memories of that day are imbedded in our minds, hearts and souls forever.</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: black;">So on Sunday, the 10th anniversary of this attack on our country and the loss of so many Americans and visitors to our country, we will pause to remember all who died that fateful September 11th. Below is a list of those who were on the American and United airlines flights... May they rest in peace. We stand with their families and the efforts they have made these past ten years to keep the memory of their loved ones alive. </span><b><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;"> </span></b><br />
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<b>AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT #<span style="font-size: 100%;">11 </span></b></div>
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<b>from Boston, Massachusetts on way to Los Angeles, California</b><br />
<b>crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center with 92 people on board.</b></div>
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Barbara Arestegui, 38, Marstons Mills, Massachusetts<br />
Karen A. Martin, 40, Danvers, Mass.<br />
First Officer Thomas McGuinness, 42, Portsmouth, New Hampshire<br />
Kathleen Nicosia, 54, Winthrop, Mass.<br />
John Ogonowski, 52, Dracut, Massachusetts<br />
Betty Ong, 45, Andover, Massachusetts<br />
Jean Roger, 24, Longmeadow, Massachusetts<br />
Dianne Snyder, 42, Westport, Massachusetts<br />
Madeline Sweeney, 35, Acton, Massachusetts</div>
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Anna Williams Allison, 48, Stoneham, Massachusetts<br />
Myra Aronson, 52, Charlestown, Massachusetts<br />
Christine Barbuto, 32, Brookline, Massachusetts<br />
Kelly Ann Booms, 24, Brookline, Mass.<br />
Carol Bouchard, 43, Warwick, Rhode Island<br />
Neilie Anne Heffernan Casey, 32, Wellesley, Massachusetts<br />
Jeffrey Coombs, 42, Abington, Massachusetts<br />
Tara Creamer, 30, Worcester, Massachusetts<br />
Thelma Cuccinello, 71, Wilmot, New Hampshire<br />
Patrick Currivan, 52, Winchester, Mass.<br />
David DiMeglio, 22, Wakefield, Mass.<br />
Donald Americo DiTullio, 49, Peabody, Mass.<br />
Paige Farley-Hackel, 46, Newton, Mass.<br />
Alex Filipov, 70, Concord, Massachusetts<br />
Carol Flyzik, 40, Plaistow, N.H.<br />
Paul Friedman, 45, Belmont, Massachusetts<br />
Karleton D.B. Fyfe, 31, Brookline, Massachusetts<br />
Peter Gay, 54, Tewksbury, Massachusetts<br />
Linda George, 27, Westboro, Massachusetts<br />
Lisa Fenn Gordenstein, 41, Needham, Massachusetts<br />
Peter Hashem, 40, Tewksbury, Massachusetts<br />
Robert Hayes, 37, from Amesbury, Massachusetts<br />
Edward (Ted) R. Hennessy, 35, Belmont, Mass.<br />
Cora Hidalgo Holland, 52, of Sudbury, Massachusetts<br />
Nicholas Humber, 60, of Newton, Massachusetts<br />
John Charles Jenkins, 45, Cambridge, Mass.<br />
Charles Edward Jones, 48, Bedford, Mass.<br />
Robin Kaplan, 33, Westboro, Massachusetts<br />
David P. Kovalcin, 42, Hudson, New Hampshire<br />
Judy Larocque, 50, Framingham, Mass.<br />
Natalie Janis Lasden, 46, Peabody, Mass.<br />
Daniel C. Lewin, 31, Charlestown, Mass.<br />
Susan A. MacKay, 44, Westford, Massachusetts<br />
Christopher D. Mello, 25, Boston, Mass.<br />
Antonio Jesus Montoya Valdes, 46, East Boston, Mass.<br />
Carlos Alberto Montoya, 36, Bellmont, Mass.<br />
Laura Lee Morabito, 34, Framingham, Massachusetts<br />
Mildred Rose Naiman, 81, Andover, Mass.<br />
Renee Newell, 37, of Cranston, Rhode Island<br />
Jacqueline J. Norton, 61, Lubec, Maine<br />
Robert Grant Norton, 85, Lubec, Maine<br />
Jane M. Orth, 49, Haverhill, Mass.<br />
Sonia Morales Puopolo, 58, of Dover, Massachusetts<br />
David E. Retik, 33, Needham, Mass.<br />
Philip M. Rosenzweig, 47, Acton, Mass.<br />
Richard Ross, 58, Newton, Massachusetts<br />
Jessica Sachs, 22, Billerica, Massachusetts<br />
Rahma Salie, 28, Boston, Mass.<br />
Heather Lee Smith, 30, Boston, Mass.<br />
Douglas J. Stone, 54, Dover, N.H<br />
Michael Theodoridis, 32, Boston, Mass.<br />
James Trentini, 65, Everett, Massachusetts<br />
Mary Trentini, 67, Everett, Massachusetts<br />
Kenneth Waldie, 46, Methuen, Massachusetts<br />
Candace Lee Williams, 20, Danbury, Conn.<br />
Christopher Zarba, 47, Hopkinton, Massachusetts</div>
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<b>UNITED AIRLINES FLIGHT #175 </b></div>
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<b>from Boston, Massachusetts on way to Los Angeles, California </b><br />
<b>second plane crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.</b></div>
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<b>Two pilots, seven flight attendants and 56 passengers were on board.</b></div>
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Amy N. Jarret, 28, North Smithfield, R.I.</div>
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Amy R. King, 29, Stafford Springs, Conn.</div>
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Kathryn L. LaBorie, 44, Providence, R.I.</div>
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Michael C. Tarrou, 38, Stafford Springs, Conn.</div>
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Garnet Edward (Ace) Bailey, 54, Lynnfield, Mass.</div>
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Mark Bavis, 31, West Newton, Mass.</div>
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Graham Andrew Berkeley, 37, Boston, Mass.</div>
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John Brett Cahill, 56, Wellesley, Mass.</div>
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Christoffer Carstanjen, 33, Turner Falls, Mass.</div>
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John (Jay) J. Corcoran, 43, Norwell, Mass</div>
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Lynn Catherine Goodchild, 25, Attleboro, Mass.</div>
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Peter Morgan Goodrich, 33, Sudbury, Mass.</div>
<b><span style="color: #000099;">Douglas A. Gowell, 52, Methuen, Mass.</span></b><br />
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The Rev. Francis E. Grogan, 76, of Easton, Mass.</div>
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Carl Max Hammond, 37, Derry, N.H.</div>
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Peter Hanson, 32, Groton, Mass.</div>
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Sue Kim Hanson, 35, Groton, Mass.</div>
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Christine Lee Hanson, 2, Groton, Mass.</div>
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Eric Samadikan Hartono, 20, Boston, Mass.</div>
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James E. Hayden, 47, Westford, Mass.</div>
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Herbert W. Homer, 48, Milford, Mass.</div>
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Robert Adrien Jalbert, 61, Swampscott, Mass.</div>
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Ralph Francis Kershaw, 52, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass.</div>
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Brian Kinney, 29, Lowell, Mass.</div>
<b><span style="color: #000099;">Robert George LeBlanc, 70, Lee, N.H.</span></b><br />
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Maclovio Lopez, Jr., 41, Norwalk, Calif.</div>
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Marianne MacFarlane, 34, Revere, Mass.</div>
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Louis Neil Mariani, 59, Derry, N.H.</div>
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Juliana Valentine McCourt, 4, New London, Conn.</div>
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Ruth Magdaline McCourt, 45, New London, Conn.</div>
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Shawn M. Nassaney, 25, Pawtucket, R.I.</div>
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Patrick Quigley, 40, of Wellesley, Mass.</div>
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Frederick Charles Rimmele, 32, Marblehead, Mass.</div>
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James M. Roux, 43, Portland, Maine</div>
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Jesus Sanchez, 45, Hudson, Mass.</div>
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Mary Kathleen Shearer, 61, Dover, N.H.</div>
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Robert Michael Shearer, 63, Dover, N.H.</div>
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Jane Louise Simpkin, 36, Wayland, Mass.</div>
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Brian D. Sweeney, 38, Barnstable, Mass.</div>
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William M. Weems, 46, Marblehead, Mass.</div>
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<b>from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco, California,</b><br />
<b>crashed in rural southwest Pennsylvania,</b><br />
<b>with 45 people on board.</b></div>
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All victims of a senseless attack, they and all who died that day were American martyrs! We shall never forget!</div>
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<span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">Peace and love to all of their families.</span>
<span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">God bless them and GOD BLESS AMERICA!</span></div>
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We have quite a few relatives who served in various wars. Because of the service of my ggg grandfather, Michel Bourque/Burke who fought under Jonathan Eddy to retake Fort Cumberland, I am a Daughter of the American Revolution. <br />
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My father-in-law, Philip/Fillipo Consentino served in the Navy in WWI. Imagine being on those ships in the early 1900s!<br />
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My husband Anthony A. Consentino followed in his father's footsteps and also served in the Navy as the Korean Conflict was winding down. A musician, he played in the Navy Band in Washington, D.C., Kodiak, Alaska, New York attaining rank of Musician First Class, Solo Clarinetist, Lead Alto Saxophone, Director of the Dance Band. He holds a Bachelor degree in Music Education from Lowell State College which is today University of Massachuetts, a Master of Music from Boston University and is a graduate of the Navy School of Music.<br />
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I have many cousins who served in various branches of the military during WWII. They were all older than me but I remember well seeing them in their uniforms. Marines, Navy, Army and Air Force. My brother-in-law served in the Air Force and made a career of it.<br />
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Today, I would like to share with you my father's service as well as my research on his service so I could document as much as possible the role he played in World War I. <br />
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My father served proudly in World War I. He was a Wagoner in the 26th Yankee Division - 102nd Supply Company. <br />
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On April 13, 2002 I went to Hartford, Connecticut with our daughter Sarah who was attending a workshop. While she went to the workshop, I went to the Hartford Public Library. I found an old book entitled: "Service Records Connecticut Men and Women in the Armed Forces of the United States during World War 1917 - 1920" published by the Office of the Adjutant General, State Armory, Hartford, Connecticut. What a find!</div>
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This book contains the names of all who served in the military from the various Connecticut cities and towns. In the Hartford portion on page 1204, my father is listed as follows: </div>
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"WHITE, GEORGE C. 66,586, White - Hartford, Conn. - Enlisted NG Hartford, Conn, June 7, 1917. Br (born) New Bedford, Mass, 21 yrs. Sup Co 1 Inf CNG (Sup Co 102nd) to disch (discharge). Wag (wagoner) June 8, 1917. AEF (American Expeditionary Forces) Nov 13, 1917 to Apr 7, 1919. Hon disch (Honorable discharge) Apr 29, 1919." (My father had changed his LeBlanc name to White until he asked my mother to marry him.)</div>
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The 26th Yankee Division returned from France in April 1919 and was demobilized in May 1919 at Camp Devens, Massachusetts. Thanks to the Zazzle Company I have a photo of the demobilization.</div>
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The 26th INFANTRY DIVISION -- The YANKEE Division in WWI and WWII. Formed by the assimilation of dozens of militia units from throughout New England, the 26th was first assembled as the 26th Infantry Division in August 1917 and was thus called the Yankee Division. The heroic 26th achieved fame at Belleau, St. Miihiel, Verdun and the Marne.</div>
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During WWI Wagoners were like truck drivers. The name Wagoner is a hold over from the old horse days. Wagoners drove trucks that supplied the battery with ammunition, powder and other supplies that the battery needed.</div>
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World War I Draftees were registered on 5 June 1917, on 5 Jun 1918 and on 12 September 1918. This draft included males 21 to 30 who were not already serving in the military, regardless of their declared nationality. Men older than 30 and younger than 21 sometimes registered for the draft, but their registration was not required. </div>
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On my father's tombstone at Veterans' Lot at Immaculate Conception Cemetery in Lawrence, Massachusetts we read the following:</div>
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George C. LeBlanc - Massachusetts - Wagoner 102 INF 26 DIVISION - World War I - September 30, 1896 - September 6, 1956. Though the tombstone says "Massachusetts" he was living in Hartford when he enlisted and was living there when discharged.</div>
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Thanks to my mother, today I am proud to have my father's Victory Medal with four clasps. The clasps represent the Aisne-Marne, St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne and Defensive Sector offensives.<br />
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My father never talked about his experiences in the war and it seems like none of the servicemen from that era did. It was indeed one of the worse wars but then, all wars are the worse.<br />
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As I child I remember playing with his helmet he had kept. I've often wondered whatever became of that. Of course, I am also very fortunate to have my father's World War I enlistment and discharge papers. These papers tell their own story as to my father's service. I never realized just how fortunate I was to have these papers until I wrote to the Military asking for a new copies since these are beginning to fade. The response was that my father's military records had burned in a fire some years ago when many military records were also destroyed. What a loss! Recently there has been news that the records are being reconstructed. That would be great.<br />
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To all of our Veterans, whatever war they fought in or whether they served during peace time, we are forever grateful. They have been and are our watchful Warriors who fight for the freedoms we continue to enjoy. It is just sad that all peoples around the world do not treasure freedom as we do - it is so precious!<br />
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Some time ago a long lost cousin who found me through my Family Tree Maker site sent me the above photo hoping that I could identify the four people in it.</div>
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Actually, they are four LeBlanc brothers. I think the fellow to the far right is my uncle Albert LeBlanc but I cannot be positive. </div>
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There were five brothers living when this photo was taken. Two had died in the early 1900s and one is missing from this photo. </div>
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The five living brothers were Joseph Edmond born 1888, Frederick (Fred) born 1889, Albert born 1891, my father George born 1896 and Henri born 1901.</div>
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George is my father but of course, I did not know him when he was this young and I didn't know any of my LeBlanc uncles (most unfortunately!). </div>
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If anyone can identify this photo please let me know. It will mean we are related.</div>
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These four LeBlanc brothers were the children of my grandparents Damien S. LeBlanc and OdilleDoiron.</div>
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If you descend from this family, we are closely related and I would love to hear from you. The family name was changed to White.</div>
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<b>As told by George Gale ~ Published in 1923</b></div>
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Jacques Cartier, a famous sea captain of St. Malo, France, the discoverer of Canada, sailed up the majestic St. Lawrence in 1535, and wintered his fleet of three small sailing vessels, the "Grande Hermine", the "Petite Hermine" and the "Emerillon" at the mouth of the stream still known as the Lairet - named after a pioneer settler of Charlesbourg - which flows into the St. Charles river, now within the limits of the city. It was Jacques Cartier who named a bay on the north shoreof the gulf, which he entered on the feast of St. Laurent, August 10, "Baye Saint Laurent", translated St Lawrence. It was not until 1608 that Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec and built his "Abitation" or fort in the Lower Town, directly below Dufferin Terrace. The Recollet monks, the first French missionaries in Canda, arrived in 1615. It ws on the 20th July, 1629, that the Kirkes captured Quebec from the French in the name of King Charles I of England, who held it until the 13th July 1632, when it was restored to the Crown of France, who remained in possession of the colony until 1759, when it again fell into the hands of the British following Wolfe's siege of Quebec and the battle of the Plains of Abrahan on the 13th September of the last mentioned year. In all, France ruled the country for over one hundred and fifty years, while the flag of Engand has waved over the lofty Cape Diamond continuously for one hundred and sixty-four years [as of 1920s].<br />
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The following is a list of the historic tables in Quebec in the 1920s together with the inscriptions and where located according to George Gale:<br />
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<b>1613:</b> In the playground of the Quebec Seminary: "Here stood the house of Guillaume Couillard, employé of the Company of the Hundred Associates, who arrived in Quebec in 1613 and who died on the 4th of March, 1663."<br />
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<b>1615:</b> On the face of building at corner of Sous-le-Fort and Little Champlain streets (foot of Breakneck Steps): - "The approximate site of the first chapel erected in Quebec by Champlain in 1615. It was destroyed by fire during the occupation of Quebec by the Kirkes from 1629 to 1632."<br />
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<b>1620:</b> Beside the Upper-Lower Town elevator office on the Terrace - "Here stood the Fort and Chateau St. Louis. The Fort was erected in the year 1620; within its walls the founder of Quebec died on December 25th, 1635. The Chateau was the residence of Governors of Canada. Begun by the Chevalier de Montmagny, reconstructed by Count de Frontenac, enlarged by Sir James Craig. This building was destroyed by fire on the 23rd of January, 1834".<br />
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<b>1633:</b> Outside of the gate leading to the Bishop's Palace at the top of Mountain Hill - "Here was erected, in 1633, the Church of Notre-Dame de Recouvrance under the direction and in fulfillment of a vow of Samuel de Champlain, first Governor of New France. Restored and enlarged in 1634. It was destroyed by fire on the 14th of June, 1640".<br />
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<b>1635: </b>On the front southeast corner of the City Hall - "On this site stood the Jesuits' College, founded in 1635. Destroyed by fire in 1640, rebuilt in 1647, considerably enlarged in 1725. It was occupied partly by British troops and public officers, from 1759 to 1776 as a barrack from 1776 to 1871, and finally demolished in 1877. The church attached to it, which extended towards Ste. Anne street, was erected in 1666 and demolished in 1807."<br />
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<b>1639:</b> On face of Blanchard's Hotel, opposite the front of the Notre-Dame des Victoires Church, Lower Town - "On this site stood in 1639 a house belonging to Noel Juchereau des Chatelets, which was the first residence of the Venerable Mother Marie de l'Incarnation and of the Ursuline Nuns in Quebec".<br />
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<b>1640: </b>At the corner of Garden and Anne streets, northwest corner of the English Cathedral grounds - "On this ground stood the trading house of the Company of the Hundred Associates. It served as a parish church after the burning down of Notre-Dame de Recouvrance on the 14th of June, 1640, and also served as a place of residence for the Jesuit Fathers from 1640 to 1657".<br />
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<b>1644: </b>Beside the Ursuline Chapel on Parlor street - "On this site stood the house of Madame de la Peltrie. It was built in 1644 and within it r esided for two years (1659-1661) Monseigneur de Laval, first Bishop of quebec. It was replaced by the present day-school of the Ursulines in 1836".<br />
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<b>1650:</b> On the northeast corner of the Court House, Place d'Armes - "This ground, which formerly extended to the east, and was occupied by the Seneschal's Court about the year 1650, became in 1681 the property of the Recollets, who erected on it a church and monastery which were destroyed by fire in 1796. The old Court House built at the beginning of the 19th century was also destroyed by fire in 1873, the present edifice taking the place shortly afterwards. The adjoining Anglican cathedral occupies part of the grounds once held by the Recollets".<br />
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<b>1668:</b> On the face of the Boswell Brewery Office at the foot of Plaace Hill, (Nicholas street) - "On this site the Intendant Talon erected a brewery in 1668 which was converted into a Palace for the intendants by M. de Meulles, in 1686. This building was destroyed by fire in 1713, reconstructed by M. Bégon; it was again damaged by fire in 1728, restored by M. Dupuys in 1729; it was finally destroyed during the siege of Quebec in 1775".<br />
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<b>1686:</b> On the hillside of the Chinic Hardware Co.'s building at the foot of Mountain Hill, (corner of St. Peter street) - "Here stood in 1681 the dwelling house of Charles Aubert de la Chesnaye, one of the most prominent merchants of quebec in the seventeenth century, the ancestor of the de Gaspé family".<br />
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<b>1687:</b> Half way down Mountain Hill (opposite Chabot's bookbindery) - "Within this enclosure was located the first graveyard of quebec, where interments were made from the early days of the Colony up to 1687".<br />
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<b>1688:</b> On Notre-Dame des Victoires Church, Lower Town - "This church, erected in 1688, under the name of L'Enfant Jésus, on the site of the old "King's Store", took the name of "Notre-Dame de la Victoire" in 1690, and of "Notre-Dame des Victoires" in 1711. The square in front of the church was used as the market place of Quebec during the French Regime and around it stood the residences of the principal merchants of that time. In the centre of the square in 1686, the Intendant Champigny erected a bronze bust of Louis XIV".<br />
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<b>1690:</b> On the fence of the garden at the upper end of Mont-Carmel street (up Haldimand street and to right on Mont-Carmel street) -"On this height, called Mont-Carmel, there stood in 1690 a stone windmill whereon was mounted a battery of three guns, and which served for a redoubt during the siege of Quebec by Phipps. It was called "Le Cavalier du Moulin'".<br />
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<b>1691:</b> On the wall of the Cartridge Factory, half way down Palace hill - "Here stood Palace, or St. Nicholas Gate, built in 1691, restroed successively in 1720 and 1790; it was rebuilt from 1823 to 1832, and finally demolished in 1874".<br />
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<b>1692:</b> Corner of St. Peter and Mountain Hill on the McCall & Shehyn Building, (northwest corner) - "On this site stood the convent of the Nuns of the Congregation, established by Sister Bourgeoys in 1692, and occupied by the said religious community up to 1842, when it removed to St. Roch".<br />
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<b>1746:</b> On the Marine Department Building, Champalin street - "In 1746, Louis SV, King of France, took possession of this area of ground in order to establish a new shipyard for the building of his vessels. Here stood the first custom House erected by the British Government in Quebec after the cession".<br />
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<b>1758:</b> Located on the Ramparts, between St. Flavien and Hamel streets, (previous residence of Sir Lomer Gouin, Premier of Quebec Province) - "On this site stood the house where Montcalm resided during the years of 1758 and 1759".<br />
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<b>1775:</b> On the Molson's Bank Building, Lower Town (St. James street, between St. Peter and Sault-au-Matelot streets - "Here stood her old and new defenders uniting, guarding, saving Canada, defeating Arnold at the Sault-au-Matelot barricade on the last day of 1775; Guy Carleton commanding at Quebec".<br />
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<b>1775:</b> tablet on the cliff above Champlain street, near Allan-Rae Steamship Company's Wharf - "Here stood the Undaunted Fifty safeguarding Canada, defeating Montgomery at the Pré-de-Ville barricade on the last day of 1775; Guy Carleton commanding at Quebec".<br />
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<b>1776:</b> On the Citadel Hill, not far from St. Louis street (right hand side going up) - "In this place was buried, on the 4th of January, 1776, along with his two aides-de-camp, McPherson and Cheeseman, and certain of his soldiers, Richard Montgomery, the American General who was killed during the attack on QAuebec on the 31st of December 1775. In 1818 his remains were exhumed and removed to the precincts of St. Paul's Church, New York".<br />
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<b>1784:</b> By the baggage office of the Chateau Frontenac, (St. Louis street) - "Here stood the Chateau Haldimand or Vieux Chateau, occupying part of the outworks of the Fort St. Louis. Begun in 1784, completed in 1787. this edifice was displaced by the erection of the pressent Chateaeu Frontenac in 1892".<br />
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<b>1791: </b>On the front of the "Kent House" at the corner of St. Louis and Haldimand streets - "This bilding was the residence of the Duke of Kent, father of Queen Victoria, during his stay in Quebec, from 1791 to 1794".<br />
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<b>1797:</b> On the new portion of the City Post Office, Mountain Hill (Table removed during construction of Post Office) - "Prescott Gate built in 1797; rebuilt 1815; torn down, 1871-1872".<br />
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<b>1806:</b> On the dwelling No. 22, Ferland Street - "Here was established in 1806, "Le Canadien", the first French newspaper published in Quebec".<br />
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<b>1806:</b> Corner of St. Flavien and Couillard streets, (no. 14 St. Flavien) - "In this house Francois-Xavier Garneau, the historian of Canada, lived for several years and here he died on the 3rd February 1866".<br />
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<b>Red River Expedition at Kakabeka Falls, Ontario</b></div>
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<b>by Frances Anne Hopkins (1838-1919)</b></div>
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<b>The first Europeans to cross the continent of North America came from East to West. They were the fur trade explorers of the North West and Hudson's Bay trading companies.</b></div>
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<b>Traveling in birch bark canoes, they explored west from Hudson's Bay or Lachine, Quebec. </b><br />
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<b> Following the inland river and lake systems, and led by MacKenzie, Fraser and Thompson, they built trading posts, explored the waterways and created the first maps of those regions. These were the Voyageurs! </b><br />
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<b> Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC)incorporated in England in 1670 hoping to find the northwest passage to the Pacific. Its object was also to occupy the lands surrounding Hudson’s Bay and carry on commerce and trade in those lands. The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) became the most powerful company in Canada, contributing significantly to the political and economic structure of the nation. During the first two hundred years of its existence the HBC engaged primarily in the fur trade industry by setting up fur trading outposts on all of the major waterways in the country in order to trade with the Native populations and gaining a monopoly in the industry after 1821. In 1870 the HBC sold its lands that consisted of all of Western Canada to the Government of Canada.</b><br />
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<b> The Voyageurs typically spoke French, and were French Canadian from Quebec, or Métis. They were often employees of French, French-Canadian, or later British trading operations who traveled by canoe deep into uncharted North America to trade fur with the Native American peoples. The voyageurs typically interacted with the native peoples more closely than the settlers who were to follow in their footsteps. Many served as interpreters and guides for the French or the English.</b><br />
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<b> During the struggle for supremacy in the fur trade in the late 18th century, the upstart North West Company challenged the more-established Hudson's Bay Company by employing a network of Voyageurs. Unlike the Hudson's Bay traders, who traditionally stayed inside coastal posts and required Natives to come to them, the Voyageurs roamed along the river valleys as far as present-day Oregon, doing business directly with the Natives. The success of the Voyageurs prompted a change in strategy by the Hudson's Bay Company, which began sending out its own expeditions into the continental interior.</b><br />
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<b>In 1779, several of these operators formed the North West Company (NWC). The NWC was led by several businessmen, including Simon McTavish. By 1787, McTavish<br />controlled eleven of the company’s twenty shares. Among the other shareholders were Alexander Mackenzie, Simon Fraser, and Peter Pond, all fur traders and three of Canada’s best-known explorers. The NWC became known for its bold and aggressive approach to business.</b><br />
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<b>The company had twenty-three partners, but more than 2000 guides, interpreters, and voyageurs. McTavish and other Scots shareholders married French Canadian women and French Canadians played key roles in the company.</b><br />
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The canoe above was often referred to as a Montreal canoe or "canot du Maitre" and was most commonly used in the fur trade by voyageurs of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In the late 1700s, at the peak of their use, they were built to carry as much as four tons of cargo, crew and provisions, and measured nearly 2m (6 feet) at their widest point. <br />
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Under normal conditions, a loaded canoe such as this was paddled by eight to twelve voyageurs. Over each of the many portages between Montreal and Lake Superior, only half of the crew was required to carry the emptied, inverted canoe, as the others began the arduous task of packing over its contents. Due to its large size, the range of the Montreal canoe was generally limited to the larger waterways and portages connecting the St. Lawrence valley, the Upper Great Lakes and the Mississippi. Large bark canoes were not an invention of the fur trade. The source of these particular great canoes was squarely rooted in the Algonquin tradition of bark canoe building. They were, in essence, an expanded or modified version supplied to meet the needs of these long-haul travelers. Accounts of large canoes appear in early European observations, but the awkwardness of these vessels on the smaller portages and canoe routes likely limited their traditional use.<br />
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<b>The canoes themselves were built by Native men and women, as well as Metis and French builders. As such, the Montreal canoe came to bear, in many subtle ways, the influences of the people and cultures that produced them. Today, this great canoe has become an icon for that formative period in early Canadian history: the fur-trade era.</b></div>
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Ste-Anne Church was located at the corner of Haverhill and Franklin Streets - the chapel was on Haverhill Street. This is where my family as well as all French-Canadian immigrants worshiped when they migrated to Lawrence from Quebec. The church on the right of the street is where the parish began. It was soon too small to accommodate the growing French-Canadian population.<br />
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Once the larger church was built under the leadership of Father Forestier s.m., who was pastor at the time, the original parish church became a chapel for daily mass on the lower level and the upper lever was converted into a parish hall with stage and all where the parish school would hold its plays, graduations and all its events.</div>
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In yet later years, as the parish population began to purchase homes in the suburbs, the number of parishioners began to dwindle and Ste Anne Chapel was dismantled and became a second "hall" where parish meetings as well as other activities were conducted. Eventually and many years later, the Marist Fathers who had ministered since the early 1900's no longer had enough priests to continue on. Ste Anne Parish would come to and end as would eventually Our Lady of Mount Carmel, St. Theresa and more recently Sacred Heart. The Augustian Fathers took over ministry at St. Theresa's merging it with St. Augustine's of Lawrence renaming it Our Lady of Good Counsel. Most recently, Diocesan priest have assumed its ministry.<br />
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Anyhow, that big beautiful church that was Ste Anne still stands empty today. The Archdiocese in recent years finally removed all of the beautiful stained glass windows parishioners had sacrificed to obtain for their beautiful house of worship and those a now in storage. There was a magnificent weather vane on top of the church and family oral history is that my grandfather and his brother climbed to the very top of that huge building to install it. I have not been able to verify whether or not this is true.</div>
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Ever since I can remember, Lawrence was known as the "Immigrant City."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Cole_5-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence,_Massachusetts#cite_note-Cole-5"> </a></sup> Starting with the Irish in the 1840's, it has been home to numerous different immigrant communities, mostly arriving during the great European immigration to America that ended in the 1920's. Since early 1970s, Lawrence has become home to a sizable Hispanic population, reaching over 68% of the population of Lawrence by 2006.<br />
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Lawrence became home to large groups of immigrants from Europe, beginning with the Irish in 1845, Germans after the social upheaval in Germany in 1848, and French Canadians seeking to escape hard northern farm life from the 1850s onward. A second wave began arriving after 1900, as part of the great mass of Italian and Eastern European immigrants, including Jews from Russia, Poland, Lithuania and neighboring regions. Immigration to the United States was severely curtailed in the 1920's with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924" title="Immigration Act of 1924">Immigration Act of 1924</a>, when foreign born immigration to Lawrence virtually ceased for over 40 years.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Cole_5-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence,_Massachusetts#cite_note-Cole-5"> </a></sup> In 1890, the foreign-born population of 28,577 was comprised as follows, with the significant remainder of the population being children of foreign born residents: 7,058 Irish; 6,999 French Canadians; 5,131 English; 2,465 German; 1,683 English Canadian. In 1920, towards the end of the first wave of immigration, most ethnic groups had numerous social clubs in the city. The Portuguese had 2; the English had 2; the Jews had 3; the Armenians, 5; the Lebanese and Syrians, 6; the Irish, 8; the Polish, 9; the French Canadians and Belgian-French, 14; the Lithuanians, 18; the Italians, 32; and the Germans, 47. However, the center of social life, even more than clubs or fraternal organizations, was churches. Lawrence is dotted with churches, many now closed, torn down or converted into other uses. These churches signify, more than any other artifacts, the immigrant communities that once lived within walking distance of each church.</div>
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French Canadians were the second major immigrant group to settle in Lawrence. In 1872, they erected their first church, St. Anne’s, at the corner of Haverhill and Franklin Streets. Within decades, St. Anne’s established a “missionary church”, Sacred Heart on South Broadway, to serve the burgeoning Québécois community in South Lawrence. Later it would also establish the "missionary" parishes in Methuen: Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St. Theresa's (Notre-Dame du Mont Carmel et St-Thérèse). The French-Canadians arrived from various farming areas of Quebec where farms had grown arrid for lack of knowledge that crops needed to be rotated after a time. Others who integrated themselves into these French-Canadian communities were actually Acadians who had left the Canadian Maritimes of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia also in search of work. </div>
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Irish immigrants arrived in Lawrence at its birth, which nearly coincided with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_%28Ireland%29" title="Great Famine (Ireland)">Great Potato Famine</a> of 1842, the event that drove great numbers of Irish out of Ireland. The Great Stone Dam, constructed in from 1845–1848 to power the nascent textile mills, was largely built by Irish laborers. The first Irish immigrants settled in the area south of the Merrimack River near the intersection of Kingston Street and South Broadway. Their shantytown settlement put them close to the dam being constructed, but away from the Essex Corporation row houses built north of the river to attract New England farm girls as mill workers. The religious needs of the Irish were initially met by the Immaculate Conception church, originally erected near the corner of Chestnut and White Street in 1846, the first Roman Catholic church in Lawrence. By 1847, observers counted over ninety shanties in the Irish shantytown. In 1869, the Irish were able to collect sufficient funds form their own church, St. Patrick’s, on South Broadway.</div>
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The first sizable German community arrived following the revolutions of 1848. However, a larger German community was formed after 1871, when industrial workers from Saxony were displaced by economic competition from new industrial areas like the Ruhr. The German community was characterized by numerous school clubs, shooting clubs, national and regional clubs, as well as men’s choirs and mutual aid societies, many of which were clustered around the Turn Verein, a major social club on Park Street.</div>
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Some Italian immigrants celebrated Mass in the basement chapel of the largely Irish St. Laurence O’Toole Church, at the intersection of East Haverhill Street and Newbury Street, until they had collected sufficient funds to erect the Holy Rosary Church in 1909 nearby at the intersection of Union Street and Essex Street. Immigrants from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lentini" title="Lentini">Lentini</a> (a city in the Sicilian province of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Syracuse" title="Province of Syracuse">Syracuse</a>) and from the Sicilian province of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catania" title="Catania">Catania</a> maintained a particular devotion to three Catholic martyrs, Saint Alfio, Saint Filadelfo and Saint Cirino, and in 1923 began celebrating a procession on their feast day. Although most of the participants live in neighboring towns, the Feast of Three Saints festival continues in Lawrence today. My husband's Consentino family came from Mistretta, Italy. They lived next door to St. Lawrence O'Toole Church but eventually became parishioners of Holy Rosary since it was the Italian ethnic parish of the neighborhood just a few blocks away from where they lived. This parish was ministered to by the Augustinian Fathers but Diocesan priest have taken the helm and the parish was merged and renamed Corpus Christi Parish.</div>
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Lawrence residents frequently referred to their Arabic-speaking Middle Eastern community as "Syrian". In fact, most so-called Syrians in Lawrence were from present-day Lebanon, and were largely Maronite Christian. Lebanese immigrants organized St. Anthony’s Maronite Church in 1903 . Pictured here is St. George’s Orthodox Church, the oldest Greek Orthodox-rite Church in the United States.</div>
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Jewish merchants became increasingly numerous in Lawrence and specialized in dry goods and retail shops. The fanciest men's clothing store in Lawrence, Kap's, established in 1902 and closed in the early 1990s, was founded by Elias Kapelson, born in Lithuania. Jacob Sandler and two brothers also immigrated from Lithuania in approximately 1900 and established Sandlers Department Store, which continued in business until 1978. In the 1880s, the first Jewish arrivals established a community around Common, Valley, Concord and Lowell Streets. In the 1920s, the Jews of Lawrence began congregating further up Tower Hill, where they erected two synagogues on Lowell Street above Milton Street, as well as a Jewish Community Center on nearby Haverhill Street. All three institutions had closed their doors by 1990 as the remaining elderly members of the community died out or moved away.</div>
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The Polish community of Lawrence was estimated to be only 600–800 persons in 1900. However by 1905, the community had expanded sufficiently to fund the construction of the Holy Trinity Church at the corner of Avon and Trinity Streets. Their numbers grew to 2,100 Poles in 1910. Like many of their immigrant brethren from other nations, most of the Poles were employed in woolen and worsted goods manufacturing.</div>
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A sizable English community, comprised mainly of unskilled laborers that arrived after 1880, sought work in the textile mills where they were given choice jobs by the Yankee overseers on account of their shared linguistic heritage and close cultural links.</div>
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Not all immigrants to Lawrence were foreign-born or their children. Yankee farmers, unable to compete against the cheaper farmlands of the Midwest that had been linked to the East coast by rail, settled in corners of Lawrence. Congregationalists were the first Protestant denomination to begin worship in South Lawrence, with the erection in 1852 of the first South Congregational Church on South Broadway, near the corner of Andover Street.</div>
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Of course, the very first settlers were the English who pioneered our villages back in the 1600's and early 1700's. In 1776 the American Revolution ensued - the rest is history!</div>
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: black;">Back row: Armand Levesque, Raymond Levesque, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: black;"> Jeanne Soucy Levesque, Lucien Delcour, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: black;"> my brother Albert LeBlanc, Mathilda Doyon Levesque, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: black;"> Alphee Levesque, Albert Levesque, </span></span><br />
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</span></b><span style="color: black;">Front row: Me, my mother Rosanna Levesque LeBlanc, <br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: black;">Mémère Arthémise </span><st1:personname><span style="color: black;">Dumais</span></st1:personname><span style="color: black;"> Levesque - on her lap Ronald Levesque, Pépère Étienne Levesque, </span></span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: black;">Emile Levesque, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: black;">Malvina Gallant Levesque, Patricia VanCoillie - absent: Gerard Levesque and Gabrielle Rousselle Levesque</span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The above is a family photo taken when we celebrated my grandparent's Golden Wedding Anniversary. Fifty years of marriage is certainly an occasion to celebrate and celebrate we did.</span> <span style="color: black;">My grandparents, Étienne Lévesque and Arthémise Dumais were married 15 October 1895 at Ste Anne Church, Lawrence, Massachusetts. <br />
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They were the parents of nine children. Three died shortly after birth and one died in child birth at the age of 22. Her name was Alexina. I've always like that name.</span> <span style="color: black;"> <br />
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All of their living children married. Their son Emile and his wife Malvina five sons and two daughters for a total of eight. One son and one daughter died sometime after birth. Albert and Viola had one daughter; Alphee and Mathilda had one son and two daughters; Claudia and Lucien had no children; my parents Rosanna and George had three sons and three daughters. Two sons and one daughter died at young ages. Two great grandchildren are in the photo - they were grandchildren of my uncle Emile and his wife Malvina.</span> <br />
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<span style="color: black;">The anniversary celebration for our grandparents began with the renewal of their marriage vows at Ste Anne's where they had married fifty years earlier. The same "witnesses" participated - my grandmother's sister Beatrice and her husband Philibert. From the church we went to a hall where a gala celebration took place. It was a wonderful time.</span> <br />
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<span style="color: black;">This year my husband Tony and I will celebrate our 39th wedding anniversary. Our youngest daughter Sarah will be 4 years in May. Our oldest daughter Rebecca will be married 13 years at the end of September.
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2. Keep your love for one another alive <br />
3. Never let anyone come between you and your spouse (especially your own parents) <br />
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If you are having an anniversary this day, this week, this month or this year, CELEBRATE! An anniversary is the time to celebrate all you have lived as a couple committed to one another. <br />
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Some time ago a long lost cousin who found me through my Family Tree Maker site sent me the above photo hoping that I could identify the four people in it.</div>
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Actually, they are four LeBlanc brothers. I think the fellow to the far right is my uncle Albert LeBlanc but I cannot be positive. </div>
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There were five brothers living when this photo was taken. Two had died in the early 1900s and one is missing from this photo. </div>
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The five living brothers were Joseph Edmond born 1888, Frederick (Fred) born 1889, Albert born 1891, my father George born 1896 and Henri born 1901.</div>
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George is my father but of course, I did not know him when he was this young and I didn't know any of my LeBlanc uncles (most unfortunately!). </div>
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If anyone can identify this photo please let me know. It will mean we are related.</div>
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These four LeBlanc brothers were the children of my grandparents Damien S. LeBlanc and OdilleDoiron.</div>
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The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. <br />
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The first telephone "book" was published by the New Haven District Telephone Company, in Connecticut, in 1878. It was one page long and contained fifty names - and because, in those days, the operator would connect callers, it was a telephone directory that didn't actually list any telephone numbers.<br />
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Before push-button telephones, people used dial telephones. Before dial telephones were invented, operators connected every call.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #330000;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> Dear Cousins,<br />
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<span style="color: black;">Time flies and that old song keeps running through my mind "As time goes by.." and it certainly does.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="color: #330000;"> <span style="color: black;">The other day I was thinking about how I first became interested in history and in particular, family history - our family's history.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">One day when I was in sixth grade (I won't say how long ago that was... ha!) our teacher gave us an assignment that remained with me to this very day. She said "I want you to write an essay on your family. Go talk to your grandparents and asked them about your family, where they were from and so on."</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Right after school I dutifully went to visit my Mémère Lévesque (née Dumais). She was the only grandmother I could interview as my father's parents passed away when he was young so I never knew them.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Anyhow while talking with Mémère she told me that there was someone in the family who had married an "Indian Princess" - well that was of great interest to a wide eyed eleven year old. She gave me little tidbits here and there just enough to make me curious - a curiosity that would keep me collecting little pieces of information here and there over the years until as a young adult I realized that though I thought I had gathered enough information, I began to realize that there were gaps that needed to be filled. Mémère had not given me the information I really needed such as the names of her parents of and of Pépère's parents and all the pertinent information that goes with it all. At that point, I did not even know that her parents and my grandfather's parents had lived in Lawrence and were the ones who had brought them all there. I never knew my great grandparents so after a while, I was all the more intrigued.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">For many years I had collected information but that information was entirely for my mother's side of the family. My mother's family was French-Canadian and my grandparents had come to Massachusetts as teenagers. Of course, as time passed and I found all of the family genealogy I realized that, as I had heard, everyone was related in one way or another.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">But what of my father's family? I recalled only one conversation with my father in which he told me the names of his parents and how young he was when they died. My grandmother died at age 42. After searching for many years, I recently found a death record or my grandfather I believe who was 67 and had died just a few years after his wife. This was a second marriage for my grandfather and he was older. Between the two marriages seventeen children were born. It would be several years after my father passed away when I decided I needed to know more about his family.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">I joined the American-Canadian Genealogical Society of Manchester, New Hampshire and my quest began. After three trips to the society I had pretty much lost hope of finding anything there on my grandparents. That day as I decided to call it a day I glanced over to one side of the library where odds and ends used to be placed on shelves. I strolled over there and looking through these papers and things saw a thin booklet with the title "New Bedford Births". Well when my grandparents migrated from New Brunswick, they went to New Bedford, Massachusetts. My father George and three of his siblings were born in New Bedford. I looked at that booklet for a few moments and thought "I'm foolish to think it could be this easy!" In spite of myself, I opened this typewritten booklet and there was an index in the back. I looked at the index and among the surnames were *many* entries for the LeBlanc surname and no given names were included in this index.<br />
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I picked a page number and could not believe my eyes when I saw my father's name, George Charles LeBlanc and especially the names of his parents, Damien S. LeBlanc and Odille Doiron, whom I'd never known. I must tell you a few tears were shed from shear joy and awe. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Now I had the names of my grandparents. I began to look for their marriage and did find both marriages for my grandfather first in the Blue Drouin as it is referred to. However, my grandfather's parents were not mentioned in either marriage record that I then found in the New Brunswick microfilmed records. Drat!</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">From census records that I could now access I searched for my grandfather's birth record based on the age given in the census. Well it was not meant to be that easy. There were two (!) Damien LeBlanc born in the same year.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">I decided to write to Stephen White at the Centre d'études acadienne, Université de Moncton, Moncton, New Brunswick. I sent him all of the information I had found regarding the children from each marriage, etc. People at the society told me he was so busy that I'd never hear from him. I was so happy when only two weeks later I received a response from him. He was able to tell me where my grandfather was born and who his parents were but he had not found the baptismal record.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Having scoured the microfilmed records as I had, when I read his letter I knew immediately where to find his baptismal record and I was finally on my way to getting to know my Acadian roots.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">From that point on I was able to find my LeBlanc line and my grandmother's Doiron line and I've been at it ever since! Our research is never done.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">At one point I had so much data that I thought it was a shame it could not be shared to help others. With the encouragement of our daughter Rebecca who was in college at the time, I decided to give it a try. That was 13 years ago and with time I have been able to share much information though my website, the </span><a href="http://www.acadian-home.org/frames.html" target="_new">Acadian Ancestral Home</a> web site as well as through my two blogs <a href="http://acadian-ancestral-home.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Acadian & French-Canadian Ancestral Home blog</a> and Lucie's Legacy blog.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: black;">Now let me say that I never found an "Indian Princess" on my mother's side of the family. First of all, there is no such thing as an Indian "Princess" (and just about all Acadian and French-Canadian families have told their children there was one in their family); secondly none of the records to date have pointed to a Native woman in our Lévesque, Dumais or collaterate lineages.<br />
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On the other hand, I did find one on my father's Acadian side of the family. Marie Christine Aubois who married Jean Roy dit Laliberté in 1686.<br />
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So there is a moral to my story: to anyone and to all have are still hoping to find that or those elusive ancestors, don't stop digging. Sometimes they turn up when you least expect them to as they did for me that Wednesday afternoon in Manchester, New Hampshire!<br />
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Lucie<br />
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</span></span></span></span>Lucie LeBlanc Consentinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13480035657625949265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011504164207885278.post-42045593741972690392012-09-05T12:56:00.000-04:002012-09-05T12:56:06.107-04:00<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: #4c1130;">In Memory of my lost found cousin William Dumais dit Goodrich</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #4c1130;">August 2, 1937 - August 23, 2012 </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #4c1130;"> Raquel (Rachel) Del Castillo Dumais</span></b></div>
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On
January 10, 2010 I blogged about Raquel/Rachel Del Castillo who was my
great aunt. I think she was also one of my mother's favorite aunts
through marriage. From the time I was quite young I remember my mother
talking about "ma tante Rachel" (aunt Rachel). </div>
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My
mother spoke often of her and she thought she was one of the most
stylish women she had ever known and she loved her for the wonderful
person she was. </div>
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The
difficulty I encountered in doing our family genealogy and history was
that I never knew how she fit into the family until I had a get-together
with some of my mother's first cousins (my first cousins once
removed). Their mother was my grandmother's sister thus Dumais sisters
so I figured they might be able to tell me something about the Dumais
side of the family that I did not yet know.</div>
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While
sharing and chatting, my cousin Rita asked if I had ever found
information about Napoleon Dumais and his wife Raquel Del Castillo!
Though only 5 years old when they returned to Lawrence from Cuba, now in
her 90's, Rita remembered them and over the years wondered what had
become of them. Wow! I finally had a connection that I could dig into!</div>
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In
my blog of January 10th I asked that if anyone knew anything about
Rachel/Raquel Del Castillo to please contact me. Lo and behold toward
the end of June while I was painting our bathroom, I received a phone
call from Florida. Thinking it might be a telemarketer I almost did not
pick up. Then I decided I should so that this "person" would not keep
calling. I was floored when I heard the caller say "Hi, I believe we
are related - Raquel Del Castillo was my great grandmother" - stunned, I
asked her to repeat what she had just said... I was totally elated to
have finally found this lost part of our family and our history.<br />
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This
second cousin was none other than Adrianna Goodrich Blanco. She was
excited.. I was excited.. and we had a difficult time putting our words
together! She told me that her uncle Bill Goodrich would call me later
as he had been doing the family history.<br />
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<b> Cousin Bill Goodrich and his father Danilo</b> <b>Goodrich</b></div>
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Since
that wonderful June 28th after Cousin Bill Goodrich called, we have
exchanged photos and a good deal of information. His son Jimmy has
taken up the baton of family historian and I will share with him all of
the information that I have on the Dumais family going back to the first
progenitor, Jean Dumais who married Marguerite Richard in 1695 in
France.</div>
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We have lots of ground to cover after all of these years!</div>
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Next: Part 2: How Dumais becomes Goodrich - what happened to Napoleon Dumais, Raquel Del Castillo and their children.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>How Dumais became Goodrich</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">After
many email exchanges and a couple of conversations with cousin Bill
Goodrich, no one really knows how this name change occurred or why. One
can only assume it might have had to do with work or business relations
in Cuba.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cousin
Bill told me that had his father not told him about the Dumais name he
never would have known. It seems that Napoleon Dumais had gone to Cuba
and was working as a civil engineer of sorts, this information based on a
ship's list that I also found. I've no idea what kind of engineer he
might have been as the Dumais children had no more education than when
they arrived with in Massachusetts from Ste-Anastasie de Lyster, QC,
Canada where they were all born.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> Raquel Del Castillo and Napoleon Dumais</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <b>What became of Napoleon, Raquel </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>and their Children?</b></span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Napoleon
Dumais was born 21 August 1884 to Georges Dumais and Sara Demers in
Ste-Anastasie. He was the ninth of thirteen children and the fifth
oldest of children who were still alive at the time of the family's
migration to Lawrence, Massachusetts. According to a notebook I
inherited from my grandmother Arthemise who was Napoleon's sister, the
family arrived in Lawrence in 1891. That means that Napoleon was only
seven years old at the time. He was only thirteen years old when his
mother died in 1897. It had to be a difficult time for Napoleon and the
family.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">As
a young adult he made his way to Cuba - it looks like we might never
know the why of it all though I hope that someday we might find some
clue. I interviewed two of my elderly cousins whose mother was
Napoleon's sister Beatrice. Rita who is in her 90s was a little girl at
the time but she remembers Napoleon and then his wife Raquel visiting
their home often.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">With
the help of Cousin Bill Goodrich in Florida and the research I've been
able to do, Napoleon and Raquel Del Castillo would have married abt.
1910 in Cuba. While there, they had four children: Noel Joseph,
Gobley, George and Danilo who was Cousin Bill's father. After their
arrival in Lawrence two more children were born: Gladys Marie Rachel
and Norma Ida Clementine.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">According
to the family history Cousin Bill was told, Napoleon was
entrepreneurial. It seems he would have been the first to bring dry
cleaning operations to Cuba. The family seemed to think he was in the
dry cleaning business in Lawrence but I've not been able to find any
proof of that. What I have found is that he worked as an insurance
agent for Liberty Mutual. This was what he gave for his
employment/employer in the WWI U.S. Draft Registration. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Be
that as it may, it seems that one day little George drank some cleaning
fluid and died shortly thereafter. Napoleon was never the same after
that. At some point he became very ill and died in 1923 at the age of
thirty-nine. His wife Raquel and the children returned to Cuba after
saying their goodbyes to husband and father.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> Dr. Roman Del Castillo and Clementine Rodriguez</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Back
in Cuba, Raquel seems to have provided well for herself and her
children. Born abt 1889 to Dr. Roman Del Castillo and Clementine
Rodriguez she apparently received an excellent education both in Cuba
and in the United States. She died in 1949 in Cuba.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Interestingly,
though Raquel retained the name of Goodrich when she returned to Cuba,
while living in Lawrence, Massachusetts the family had resumed the name
of Dumais - Dumas is the spelling I found in the 1920 Federal </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Napoleon Dumais Genealogy</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Napoleon Dumais 1884-1923 married </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">circa 1910 </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Raquel Del Castillo abt. 1889-1949</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Georges Dumais 1839-1903 married 1871 Sara Demers 1853-1897</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Narcisse Dumais 1808-1834 married 1829 Marguerite Marquis1813-1873</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Joseph Jean-Pierre Dumais 1764-1831 married 1790 Marie-Anne-Françoise Plourde1777-1816</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pierre Dumais 1714-1803 married 1755 Catherine Michaud abt. 1716-1755</span></span></div>
Jean Dumais 1626----- married 1695 in France Marguerite Richard 1695 <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>My
sincere thanks to Cousin Bill Goodrich of Florida for providing all of
the truly amazing Goodrich and Del Castillo photos I did not have. He
has a treasure trove of family photos and lots of good family history. </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>N.B. Later this week, I will post what I've learned about Cousin Bill and his family as well as the many messages we've exchanged since we first connected. </b></span></span></div>
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<b>Just call me Lois!</b><br /><br />When the enumerator came to our home, my French-Canadian grandmother must have been caring for me while my parents were at work as I was just a toddler. My Mémère spoke little English, we were never allowed to speak English to her and never ever did she call me Lucie - I was baptized Lucienne so she and my mother always called me by that name. The rest of the world called me Lucie, sometimes Lou (especially my sister) as Lucienne does not pronounce well in English. As a child I didn't like my name when Scout leaders or other non-French would call me Loushiene. UGH!<br />
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Anyhow, I can picture Mémère Levesque repeating the name to the enumerator so he'd get it right: "Lucie Enne" anyhow what the Irish, English-only speaking enumerator came away with and wrote down was LOIS E - so as I say, just call me Lois. <br />
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To be honest, I am enjoying going through the 1940 Census and finding all of my family and extended family. Seeing where they lived, who lived near them, what kind of work they were doing and how they fared where their education or work was concerned and how they did financially since they had all lived through the Great Depression.<br />
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At the same time, I must say that as much as the 1940 Census is both interesting it is also sad. I am
seeing relatives, neighbors, classmates who lived in my neighborhood
who are no longer with us today. You look at that and realize just how
fleeting life is knowing that the many people you knew are gone. Where have the years gone? Where have our ethnic neighborhoods filled with families and extended families gone? <br />
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Now remember that if you decide to look for me in the 1940 Census, look for Lois E otherwise
you'll not find me. Just think, all this time I've waited to see me in a census and
now that the census has been released, I'm still not in it. What can I say? Perhaps this is a way to be forever young.<br />
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April 1940 ~ forever young</div>
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<br />Lucie LeBlanc Consentinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13480035657625949265noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011504164207885278.post-75514201277585528542012-03-10T09:20:00.001-05:002013-01-18T07:21:42.328-05:00Will You Be In The 1940 Census? - Part 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2012
<i>I'm On It, But Not In It.
No, it's not a riddle. It's the 1940 United States Census. I am not old enough to be IN the census listings (I'll be in the 1950 Census, though when it's released in April 2022).
But I'm ON the case for Indexing the 1940 United States census. </i>(Randy Seaver)<br />
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The statement above comes from Randy Seaver's blog <a href="http://www.geneamusings.com/2012/02/im-on-it-but-not-in-it.html" target="_blank">Genea-Musings</a>. Ever since I read Randy's opening comment on February 27th, I've thought about it quite a bit because not only am I on it but I am *in* it. I have volunteered to help index the 1940 census with <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/1940census" target="_blank">Family Search</a> - You can help to index this census too.<br />
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Needless to say, I am looking forward to seeing exactly what is on this census about my family. It is also supposed to tell us where our grandparents were born more precisely than in past censuses. For instance, that means that not only would the census tell us the country (example: Canada) it would tell us the town, village or city (example: Ste Anastasie) I know all of that but want to see what the census says.<br />
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Everyone is abuzz about the 1940 census. Census records are released every ten years. April 2, 2012 will make ten years the enumeration for the 1940 census began. It also means that the 72 year privacy wait ends on that date. No one will receive a copy of this census before April 2nd. Not ancestry.com, not familysearch, no one. This is why it is critical that as many as possible sign up to index so it can be done perhaps within six months. How many indexers there are will determine the length of time it will take. Because it is not indexed is also why I suspect the NARA site will crash shortly after 9:00 a.m. when millions of people try to access the NARA site for a first glimpse at the census. I hope I'm wrong!<br />
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I attended a lecture about this census presented by Walter Hickey who has worked for many years at the National Archives, Waltham, Massachusetts. This morning I also listened to a webinar by Thomas MacEntee of <a href="http://www.geneabloggers.com/" target="_blank">Geneabloggers</a> fame . Both pretty much said the same thing but I enjoyed the refresher provided by the webinar.<br />
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When the census is released you can access it on the <a href="http://1940census.archives.gov/" target="_blank">National Archives Government</a> site. This is a b<span style="text-align: center;">lank copy of the 1940 census form:</span><br />
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The following questions were asked (from the NARA site):</div>
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<span style="color: #30302e; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em;"><b>Questions Asked on the 1940 Census</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Many of the questions on the 1940 census are the standard ones: name, age, gender, and race, education, and place of birth. But the 1940 census also asks many new questions. The instructions ask the enumerator to enter an [a circled x] after the name of the person furnishing the information about the family; whether the person worked for the CCC, WPA, or NYA the week of March 24-30, 1940; and income for the 12 months ending December 31, 1939. The 1940 also has a supplemental schedule for two names on each page. The supplemental schedule asks the place of birth of the person's father and mother; the person's usual occupation, not just what they were doing the week of March 24-30, 1940; and for all women who are or have been married, has this woman been married more than once and age at first marriage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The complete list of the questions follows:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4011504164207885278" name="loc" style="color: #386199;"></a><b style="font-weight: bold;">Location:</b></span></div>
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<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Street, avenue, road, etc.</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">House number (in cities and towns).</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4011504164207885278" name="data" style="color: #386199;"></a><b style="font-weight: bold;">Household Data:</b></span></div>
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<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Number of household in order of visitation.</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Home owned (O) or rented (R).</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Value of home, if owned, or monthly rental, if rented.</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Does this household live on a farm? (Yes or No).</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4011504164207885278" name="name" style="color: #386199;"></a><b style="font-weight: bold;">Name:</b></span></div>
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<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Name of each person whose <i>usual place of residence</i> on April 1, 1940, was in this household. Be sure to include:</span><ul style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 14px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; padding-left: 3px;">
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Persons temporarily absent from household. Write "Ab" after names of such persons.</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Children under 1 year of age. Write "Infant" if child has not been given a first name.</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Enter X after name of person furnishing information.</span></li>
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<b style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Relation:</span></b></div>
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<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Relationship of this person to the head of the household, as wife, daughter, father, mother-in-law, grandson, lodger, lodger's wife, servant, hired hand, etc...</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4011504164207885278" name="desc" style="color: #386199;"></a><b style="font-weight: bold;">Personal Description:</b></span></div>
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<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sex - Male (M), Female (F).</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Color or race.</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Age at last birthday.</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Marital status - Single (S), Married (M), Widowed (Wd), Divorced (D).</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4011504164207885278" name="ed" style="color: #386199;"></a><b style="font-weight: bold;">Education:</b></span></div>
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<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Attended school or college any time since March 1, 1940? (Yes or No)</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Highest grade of school completed.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4011504164207885278" name="birth" style="color: #386199;"></a><b style="font-weight: bold;">Place of Birth:</b></span></div>
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<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If born in the United States, give State, Territory, or possession. If foreign born, give country in which birthplace was situated on January 1, 1937. Distinguish Canada-French from Canada-English and Irish Free State (Eire) from Northern Ireland.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4011504164207885278" name="citz" style="color: #386199;"></a><b style="font-weight: bold;">Citizenship:</b></span></div>
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<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Citizenship of the foreign born.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4011504164207885278" name="1935" style="color: #386199;"></a><b style="font-weight: bold;">Residence, April 1, 1935:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">IN WHAT PLACE DID THIS PERSON LIVE ON April 1, 1935? For a person who, on April 1, 1935, was living in the same house as at present, enter in Col. 17 "Same house," and for one living in a different house but in the same city or town, enter "Same place," leaving Cols. 18, 19, and 20 blank, in both instances. For a person who lived in a different place, enter city or town, county, and State, as directed in the Instructions. (Enter actual place of residence, which may differ from mail address.)</span></div>
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<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">City, town, or village having 2,500 or more inhabitants. Enter "R" for all other places.</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">County.</span></li>
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<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">On a farm? (Yes or No).</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Persons 14 Years Old and Over - Employment Status:</span></h4>
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<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Was this person AT WORK for pay or profit in private or nonemergency Gov't. work during week of March 24-30? (Yes or No).</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If not, was he at work on, or assigned to, public EMERGENCY WORK (WPA, NYA, CCC, etc.) during week of March 24-30? (Yes or No).</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If neither at work nor assigned to public emergency work. ("No" in Cols. 21 and 22).</span></div>
<ul style="color: #30302e; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 14px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; padding-left: 3px;">
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Was this person SEEKING WORK? (Yes or No).</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If not seeking work, did he HAVE A JOB, business, etc.? (Yes or No).<br /><br />For persons answering "No" to question 21, 22, 23 and 24.</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Indicate whether engaged in home housework (H), in school (S), unable to work (U), or other (Ot).<br /><br />If at private or nonemergency Govt. work. "Yes" in col. 21.</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Number of hours worked during week of March 24-30, 1940.</span><div style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.2em;">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If seeking work or assigned to public emergency work. ("Yes" in Col. 22 or 23).</span></div>
</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Duration of unemployment up to March 30, 1940 - in weeks.</span></li>
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<b style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Occupation, Industry and Class of Worker:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For a person <i>at work, assigned to public emergency work, or with a job</i> ("Yes" in Col. 21, 22, or 24), enter<i>present</i> occupation, industry, and class of worker. For a person seeking work ("Yes" in Col. 23): a) if he has previous work experience, enter <i>last </i>occupation, industry, and class of worker; or b) if he does not have previous work experience, enter "New worker" in Col. 28, and leave Cols. 29 and 30 blank.</span></div>
<ul style="color: #30302e; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 14px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; padding-left: 3px;">
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Occupation: Trade, profession, or particular kind of work, as <i>frame spinner, salesman, laborer, rivet heater, music teacher</i>.</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Industry: Industry or business, as <i>cotton mill, retail grocery, farm, shipyard, public school</i>.</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Class of Worker.</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Number of weeks worked in 1939 (Equivalent full-time weeks).</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Income in 1939 (12 months ended December 31, 1939):</span></h4>
<ul style="color: #30302e; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 14px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; padding-left: 3px;">
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Amount of money wages or salary received (including commissions).</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Did this person receive income of $50 or more from sources other than money wages or salary? (Yes or No).</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Number of Farm Schedule.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4011504164207885278" name="bp" style="color: #386199;"></a>Supplementary Questions 35-50:</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For persons enumerated on lines 14 and 29 [about a 5% sample of the population]</span></div>
<ul style="color: #30302e; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 14px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; padding-left: 3px;">
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Name.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For Persons of All Ages:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4011504164207885278" name="pb" style="color: #386199;"></a><b style="font-weight: bold;">Place of Birth of Father and Mother</b><br />If born in the United States, give State, Territory, or possession. If foreign born, give country in which birthplace was situated on January 1, 1937. Distinguish: Canada-French from Canada-English and Irish Free State from Northern Ireland.</span></div>
<ul style="color: #30302e; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 14px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; padding-left: 3px;">
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Father.</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Mother.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4011504164207885278" name="lan" style="color: #386199;"></a>Mother Tongue (or Native Language):</span></h4>
<ul style="color: #30302e; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 14px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; padding-left: 3px;">
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Language spoken in home in earliest childhood.</span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4011504164207885278" name="vet" style="color: #386199;"></a><b style="font-weight: bold;">Veterans:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Is this person a veteran of the United States military forces; or the wife, widow, or under-18-year-old child of a veteran?</span></div>
<ul style="color: #30302e; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 14px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; padding-left: 3px;">
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If so, enter "Yes."</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If child, is veteran-father dead? (Yes or No)</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">War or military service.</span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4011504164207885278" name="ss" style="color: #386199;"></a><b style="font-weight: bold;">Social Security:</b></span></div>
<ul style="color: #30302e; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 14px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; padding-left: 3px;">
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Does this person have a Federal Social Security Number? (Yes or No)</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Were deductions for Federal Old-Age Insurance or Railroad Retirement made from this person's wages or salary in 1939? (Yes or No)</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If so, were deductions made from (1) all, (2) one-half or more, (3) part, but less than half, of wages or salary?</span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4011504164207885278" name="occ" style="color: #386199;"></a><b style="font-weight: bold;">Usual Occupation, Industry, and Class of Worker:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Enter that occupation which the person regards as his usual occupation and at which he is physically able to work. If the person is unable to determine this, enter that occupation at which he has worked longest during the past 10 years and at which he is physically able to work. Enter also usual industry and usual class of worker. For a person without previous work experience, enter "None" in column 45 and leave columns 46 and 47 blank.</span></div>
<ul style="color: #30302e; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 14px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; padding-left: 3px;">
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Usual occupation.</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Usual industry.</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Usual class of worker.</span></li>
</ul>
<div style="color: #30302e; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.7em;">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4011504164207885278" name="mar" style="color: #386199;"></a><b style="font-weight: bold;">For all women who are or have been married:</b></span></div>
<ul style="color: #30302e; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 14px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; padding-left: 3px;">
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Has this woman been married more than once? (Yes or No)</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Age at first marriage.</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.archives.gov/global-images/layout/icon-bullet.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0em 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4011504164207885278" name="child" style="color: #386199;"></a>Number of children ever born (do not include stillbirths).</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Symbols and Explanatory Notes</span></h4>
<table border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" class="striped" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-bottom-color: rgb(85, 85, 85); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-collapse: collapse; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(85, 85, 85); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(85, 85, 85); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(85, 85, 85); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: #30302e; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;" summary="codes"><tbody>
<tr><th style="background-color: #566b6f; color: white; font-size: 0.9em; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 8px; text-align: left;">Column Number<br />
and Heading</th><th style="background-color: #566b6f; color: white; font-size: 0.9em; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 8px; text-align: center;">Codes Used</th><th style="background-color: #566b6f; color: white; font-size: 0.9em; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 8px; text-align: left;">Code Meaning</th></tr>
<tr class="alt"><td style="background-color: #f3f0f0; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.8em; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 6px;"><i>Column 10:</i><br />
Color or Race</td><td style="background-color: #f3f0f0; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.8em; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 6px;">W<br />
Neg<br />
In<br />
Chi<br />
Jp<br />
Fil<br />
Hin<br />
Kor</td><td style="background-color: #f3f0f0; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.8em; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 6px;">White<br />
Negro<br />
Indian<br />
Chinese<br />
Japanese<br />
Filipino<br />
Hindu<br />
Korean</td></tr>
<tr><td style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.8em; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 6px;"><i>Column 11:</i><br />
Age at Last Birthday</td><td style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.8em; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 6px;">11/12<br />
10/12<br />
9/12<br />
8/12<br />
7/12<br />
6/12<br />
5/12<br />
4/12<br />
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1/12</td><td style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.8em; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 6px;">April 1939<br />
May 1939<br />
June 1939<br />
July 1939<br />
August 1939<br />
September 1939<br />
October 1939<br />
November 1939<br />
December 1939<br />
January 1940<br />
February 1940</td></tr>
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Highest Grade of<br />
School Completed</td><td style="background-color: #f3f0f0; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.8em; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 6px;">0<br />
1 to 8<br />
H-1 to H-4<br />
C1 to C4<br />
C-5</td><td style="background-color: #f3f0f0; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.8em; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 6px;">None<br />
Elementary School, 1st to 8th<br />
High School, 1st to 4th year<br />
College, 1st to 4th year<br />
College, 5th year or more</td></tr>
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Citizenship of<br />
the Foreign Born</td><td style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.8em; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 6px;">Na<br />
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Am Cit</td><td style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.8em; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 6px;">Naturalized<br />
Having First Papers<br />
Alien<br />
American Citizen Born Abroad</td></tr>
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Class of Worker</td><td style="background-color: #f3f0f0; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.8em; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 6px;">PW<br />
GW<br />
E<br />
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NP </td><td style="background-color: #f3f0f0; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.8em; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 6px;">Wage/Salary Worker in Private Work<br />
Wage/Salary Worker in Gov't Work<br />
Employer<br />
Working on Own Account<br />
Unpaid Family Worker</td></tr>
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War or<br />
Military Service</td><td style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.8em; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 6px;">W<br />
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SW<br />
R<br />
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Ot</td><td style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.8em; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 6px;">World War<br />
Spanish-American War; Philippine<br />
Insurrection or Boxer Rebellion<br />
Spanish-American War & World War<br />
Regular Establishment or<br />
Peace-Time Service<br />
Other War or Expedition</td></tr>
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<br />Lucie LeBlanc Consentinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13480035657625949265noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011504164207885278.post-10550916617180012482012-03-08T06:58:00.003-05:002014-03-17T06:01:11.573-04:00The iPad and Power Point Presentations<br />
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After purchasing an iPad2 the day after Christmas, I wanted to learn how to use it at its full potential. I'm not there yet but certainly am getting there.<br />
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One day when speaking with our daughter Sarah I told her how<br />
I l-o-v-e my iPad but wished I could use it for Power Point Presentations. She said I could as someone at work had done so about a week or two earlier. The search began to find out just how this could be done.<br />
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At first I found SlideShark, a free app, that looked like it could do the job. I gave it a try. While it seemed to work well I did not like that in converting my presentation it changed some things - I won't go into that here since that really isn't the focus I want to share at this time.<br />
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The same afternoon, my friend Gerry Savard posted a message on Facebook that I should try the *Keynote* App. I did a search and everything I read about it sounded good. What I especially liked was the fact that I could also download the *Keynote Remote* to my iPod Touch and use it as a remote control during my presentations. I learned all that I could about it online especially at apple.com. Everyone seemed quite happy with these two apps. <br />
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Having done my homework, I decided that before I purchased *Keynote* app for $9.99 and
*Keynote Remote* for 99 cents that I should go to the Apple store to confirm that this would work very well and satisfy my needs when setting up and when presenting a Power Point presentation. So armed with what I had learned in those few hours, I packed up my iPad2 and my iPod Touch and headed to the Apple store.<br />
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When I arrived at the store I checked in, I explained why I was there and that I wanted someone to show me how this would all work with the iPad and iPod Touch. (This is what you do when going to the Apple store for help.) I was put on the list and about ten minutes later someone was available to consult with me. <br />
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He told me how great the *Keynote* app is but said *Keynote Remote* did not work with the iPad. Ah ha!.. and this is why it pays to do your homework. I told him I had done my homework and that the Apple site said it did work with the iPad. He pulled up the Apple site and was so excited by this news that he immediately loaded the app to his iPhone. After his excitement he showed me exactly how it all worked. I then went to the App store with my iPad and purchased *Keynote* for my iPad and *Keynote Remote* for my iPod Touch. He then watched me as I duplicated what I had seen him do on the store iPad, etc. I didn't want to have any doubt about how this worked after leaving the store. [*Keynote Remote* app works with the iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone].<br />
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In order to do Ppt presentations with the iPad on a projector, it is necessary to buy a VGA adapter at the Apple store ($39.99). Loading one of my presentations to *Keynote* was easy and the conversion kept my presentation intact and made no changes as it had on SlideShark. <br />
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After playing with all of this for a few weeks I still had not tried this with a computer projector and thought I should give this a try before doing a presentation in real time. I contacted Gerry who is president of ACGS and asked him if it would be possible to try it with the society's projector. He was happy to accommodate and a couple of other interested people/members came along.<br />
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What I immediately realized is that I should purchase a VGA extension cord like the one on the projector. I had wondered where I would be able to place my iPad given that the VGA adapter is short. This is a great solution. With the extension cord you can have the iPad in front of you in a safe place.<br />
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iPad connected to the projector and presentation up on the wall/screen next we wanted to see how well my iPod Touch would work as a remote. It was *perfect*. The presentation shows up on the iPod Touch (or iPhone) either one or two slides at a time depending on whether you choose portrait or landscape mode. It works so well that I was able to go out in the hall and change slides - nice! This meant there was plenty of range. Too, the room we were in is a conference room and quite large.<br />
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We did this using WiFi. Next Gerry put settings on both devices on Bluetooth. As he said, everywhere I go will not have WiFi. This is where we ran into a problem. My devices would not connect and they should have. We put everything away and Gerry did a search on the Internet and found that IOS5 had some kind of "bug" that caused the devices to not always connect with Bluetooth. In my case they would not connect at all. He found an app called Bluetooth Photo Image that I downloaded (free app). It worked well at ACGS but then would not work quite as well when I got home. Dilemma and chagrin!<br />
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The new iPad had been unveiled earlier in the day so I decided to go take a look at that all while charging my iPod with my PC. As soon as iTunes opened there was a message that the IOS5 was going to be upgraded to IOS5.1 - I did a search and the upgrade was to correct certain "bugs" in 5. As soon as the iPod was upgraded I connected the iPad to upgrade the IOS. I then tried connecting using Bluetooth and I am very happy to say they connect! Tried it a few times last evening and again this morning and the connection works just fine. Dilemma and chagrin all gone!<br />
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To do Power Point presentations with your iPad (all models) you need to do the following - click into the App store and purchase<br />
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1. Keynote App for your iPad<br />
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2. Get Keynote Remote for the iPhone or iPod Touch (won't work with earlier models of iPod).<br />
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2. Go to the Apple Store and purchase the VGA adapter.<br />
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I highly recommend you purchase your own VGA extension cord - under $10 for a Belkin on Amazon.<br />
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I'm enthralled with the idea that I can travel to do presentations without lugging around my laptop and its accessories. Nice to travel light.<br />
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I've not spoken yet where there is no WiFi and I always ask when being booked for a talk. When there is, I have duplicates of my presentation in DropBox and another on my PC at home. <br />
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Using SplashTop on my iPad (about $4.99) and SplashTop Streamer on my PC, I can access my home computer from anywhere. I would never go out to speak without a back up plan for my presentations.<br />
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When there is no WiFi connection available, I will work out a back-up plan when the time comes.<br />
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As Gerry mentioned in his comment below - something I forgot to say - is that another reason you would want your iPad close to you is that you can user your finger as a laser pointer if you place it where you want to point on your presentation. So when I want to point out a particular spot on a document, I just place my finger on that spot and it shows up as a pointer on the presentation.<br />
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That's the scoop - it was fun to try this out and now I am eager to do it in real time. I recommend this to anyone doing presentations. Be daring and give it a whirl - get the most out of that iPad, iPod Touch and/or iPhone.<br />
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My thanks to Gerry for all his help. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. <br />
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I love technology and as everybody knows *I L-O-V-E MY iPAD*!!!!<br />
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Soon I will put together a workshop entitled "Technology, Genealogy and You". Stay tuned<br />
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<u><b>MARCH 17, 2014 UPDATE</b></u>:<br />
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1. Apple updated its KEYNOTE app so that remote is built in so that it is no longer necessary to purchase Keynote Remote. That said, I have no plan to purchase a newer iPod Touch that I presently use for my remote and the new Keynote cannot be loaded to it as it is not the latest iOS. Nonetheless, the remote should continue working as it has always. Because Apple is discontinuing its use does not mean it will not work if you already have it.<br />
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2. I have no plan to ever own a Smartphone so I have purchased an iPad Mini with cellular. That will solve the problem if ever I need to retrieve data and there is no WiFi where I am speaking. You must tremember to turn off cellular when doing your presentation unless you need it during your talk.<br />
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3. When purchasing an extension cord, I got a 10 foot but should have a 20 foot cord. You never know how far you will be from the projector. That said though, when using a remote for your presentation, you can change slides from anywhere in the room so it depends on where you want to be during your talk.<br />
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Cadie was a Parakeet (aka Budgie) and yes, she was a feisty little bird.<br />
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Born thirteen years ago, our daughter Rebecca bought her while attending Boston University. She had her own apartment and this little bird was good company. Once in a while I would take Cadie home with me and we called it "Budgie Camp". I fell in love with that beautiful little creature from the get-go. Cadie was coming to "Budgie Camp" so often that our daughters and then recently married son-in-law decided to gift me with my own budgie for my birthday. (That's another story for another blog.)<br />
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Cadie was an independent little girl. If she didn't like something, she let you know it in her own little way. After Rebecca and Tyler were married they brought Cockatiels to live with them named Charlie, Reggie and Tommy. Cadie seemed to get along find with them. When they moved to the Philadelphia area while Rebecca attended Temple U., I drove my car to help them with the move and Cadie came in my car for the trip. She was a very good traveler and always had been. When we stopped for lunch, I opened my car door and Rebecca opened hers (she had the Charlie and Reggie in her car) and both Cadie and Charlie were "talking" to one another. We got a kick out of that.<br />
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A few years later they all moved back to Massachusetts. Charlie began laying eggs and before we knew it there were quite a few baby Tiels in their home. That many birds surrounding little Cadie was more than she could take so Rebecca called one evening and asked if I would take Cadie. It was a no brainer. Within minutes we were on our way to Peabody to pick up Cadie. She was familiar with Whisper (the Budgie given me for my birthday). She was happy to be here and I was happy to have her. <br />
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Many afternoons I would go in the bedroom with them, shut the door and allow them the freedom to fly, play, sit or whatever. They would sit on my shoulders one on each side all the while chattering and cooing.<br />
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During the cold weather months I kept them in my home office as it was warmer with the computer running all the time. After I covered them for the night, Cadie would let me know she was unhappy if I came into the room with a ch ch ch type of chatter like you are disturbing me.<br />
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In her earlier years she was very feisty. When we opened her cage she would squawk and tried to bite us but after a few moments, she would readily get up on a finger and enjoy being with us. Budgies are such social birds and that is what makes them enjoyable pets. In later Spring and throughout Summer she would chatter up a storm when I'd be rolling the cage to the living room. She enjoyed watching television and being with us. When in the other room with me, she would "whistle" when I had music playing. As the years rolled by Cadie mellowed.<br />
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Yes, Cadie mellowed so much so that the past few weeks not only would she fly to my shoulder when I opened the door to her cage, but because at thirteen old age was setting in and she wasn't feeling her usual self, she would prefer to get on my lap and snuggle under my sweater to keep warm or fly to my shoulder and snuggle along my neck for the same reason. I would hold her in the palm of my hand covering her with the other hand and she would sleep... she needed body warmth to help her along. By last week, every time I came into the room she would get near the door of the cage for me to pick her up. I would take her into the living room with me holding her on my chest and covering her with a small blanket - there she would stay.. never budging.. just warm and comfortable she would sleep.<br />
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Cadie was losing weight - never a good thing for a bird. She had always been a solid kind of bird when picked up. Never overweight, just good and solid. Last Friday, it was obvious she was losing weight. She was no longer eating her pellets or millet (which birds love). Rather all she seemed to be able to eat was bread that used to be her morning treat. She used to wait on her perch each morning for me to give her a small piece as her treat of the day. Little did I know that someday it would be all she could eat to sustain her little body.<br />
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Saturday Cadie looked like she was making a come back. She felt heavier and she was spry: ah yes, the tempest before the storm! Sunday her weight was down again and having a difficult time to swallow she ate very little and was no longer drinking water. Through it all, the only thing this little bird wanted was to be with me. She wanted to be held and kept warm. At that stage I always imagine it must feel good for birds to be off their feet for a bit. I've had other birds and at end stages it was always like this but Cadie was different in so many ways. I believe that her feistiness was often her strength and when she loved you it was as strong as she was feisty. <br />
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When in Pennsylvania she was very sick. The vet ordered special shots for her and she made a full recovery. She was a fighter! Another thing about her is that she seemed to really like a clean cage and I cleaned her cage religiously every morning. She loved to take longggg baths, her last one a week and a half ago.<br />
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I don't know where she found the strength but on Sunday, twice when I opened her cage, she flew to my shoulder - that is just how much she wanted to be with me in her last days.<br />
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Early yesterday morning, January 30th, our beloved Cadie passed. The wind picked up and I just knew Cadie was flying as fast as she could to be with our other birds - if there is a bird heaven they are all together now. When there is a thaw, I will bury her under the Rose of Sharon with the other birds that passed on. She will be in good company with Budgies Whisper, Sweet Pea, Kiwi; Tweety Bird (a Canary) and Tommy (a Tiel). As you see Cadie is now in good company with our own familiy of birds.<br />
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Yesterday was a very sad day and I cried a lot but at the same time I was very happy that Cadie and I had such a strong bond that she could trust me to the very end. Throughout the day I wondered how many little birds would climb onto someone, snuggle under a sweater to keep warm and allow themselves to held in the palms of one's hands to warm them up. This was very consoling as it spoke to me of the trust Cadie had that I would provide and protect her the best I could. Yes, she was a truly exceptional bird!<br />
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I now miss her chatter when I come to the computer to write or to work. This room has become so quiet and empty. Isn't it funny how such a little creature can fill a room? Of course, with her personality, Cadie was bigger than life! I miss that feisty and independent little bird who endeared herself to all our hearts. She was our girl and we loved her.<br />
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There will never be another little Cadence/Cadie. <br />
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<b><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">My mother sometimes talked about this strike. She was already working in the mills. Immigrant families left Canada in search of work and in hopes of a better life. Agriculture had dried out because our ancestors knew nothing back then about crop rotation but they'd heard there was lots of work in the mills of Fall River, Lawrence and Lowell, Massachusetts as well as Manchester, New Hampshire.</span> M<span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">ills sprung up in many cities and towns. It became a way of life until the mills left in the 1950's and headed south where labor was cheaper than in these northern mills where workers had learned to unionize to protect their rights.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">On January 12th, 1912 the labor protest that became known as the "Bread and Roses" strike began in Lawrence.<br />
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A new state law had reduced the maximum workweek from 56 to 54 hours. Factory owners responded by speeding up production and cutting workers' pay. Polish women were the first to shut down their looms and leave the mill. As they marched through the streets, workers from all the city's ethnic groups joined them. Over the next months, increasingly violent methods were used to suppress the protest, but the strikers maintained their solidarity. After Congress held hearings on the situation, the mill owners were anxious to avoid bad publicity. They settled with the strikers, bringing to an end a watershed event in American labor history.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">The Bread and Roses Strike of 1912 changed U.S. labor laws forever.</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">On January 12, 1912, workers in the American Woolen Company Mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts, opened their pay envelopes to find that their wages had been cut. They took to the streets in protest, beginning a history-making confrontation between labor and capital.</span> <span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">The "Bread and Roses Strike," as it became known, broke new ground in several ways. More than half of the workers in the Lawrence textile mills were women and children, and women played a major role in the strike. Most of the workers were unskilled newcomers from the Middle East, southern and eastern Europe. They spoke more than a dozen different languages and practiced a variety of religions and ethnic customs. What bound them together was the need to improve their living and working conditions.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">By the turn of the twentieth century, New England's factory towns were generally miserable places. Wages were low, rents were high, and living conditions were crowded and unhealthy. The factory floors were brutally hot in summer and painfully cold in winter. The machinery was dangerous; pressure to speed up production increased the risk of accident and injury.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">The photo below is that of a "spinner" girl. Girls and boys worked as young as ten years of age in the mills.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> It was the same for bobbin girls or lap boys, bobbin girls kept the spinners supplied with bobbins as needed. I really don't know what my mother started as in the mills but I do know that as far back as I can remember she was a weaver in the weave room. I remember my brother being a bobbin boy when he started working in the mills. </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Later he worked in the "Mule Room". Actually, it was really the Spinning Room but it was called the "Mule Room" simply because the spinning machine was called a "spinning mule". </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> My grandfather, aunts and uncles were all weavers. During World War II the Lawrence Mills wove material for army uniforms as well as blankets.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCY8ytscZ7VSYcgiI9L1SIiZj05kwM-12OrM5FYPDIeOtnPKV00C2v0PoF2FCbb5aM1Ic4aCQmmkkE0t6D9OGWU12M3y9PJ5sgZZYVInVv3gw5z2n_z_SyXZ5d8Yj9o13eONgfqbiG0x8r/s1600-h/child-mill.gif"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363218051035504226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCY8ytscZ7VSYcgiI9L1SIiZj05kwM-12OrM5FYPDIeOtnPKV00C2v0PoF2FCbb5aM1Ic4aCQmmkkE0t6D9OGWU12M3y9PJ5sgZZYVInVv3gw5z2n_z_SyXZ5d8Yj9o13eONgfqbiG0x8r/s320/child-mill.gif" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 212px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 125px;" /></a><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">Under Massachusetts law, schooling was compulsory for children under age 14, but poverty forced many parents to lie about their sons' and daughters' ages and send them to work in the mills. One boy, asked if he'd like to go to school, said that he would love to, but he wanted to eat.</span> <span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">My mother was eleven years old in January of 1912 and had left school in sixth grade to work in the mills.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">In response to reports on the deplorable conditions at the mills, the Massachusetts legislature voted to reduce the maximum workweek from 56 to 54 hours. The law took effect on January 1, 1912. Although the legislation was intended to help the workers, many of them feared, correctly, that the mill owners would simply speed up production and cut their pay by two hours a week.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">When workers opened their first paychecks in January and discovered that what they feared had in fact come to pass, a near-riot broke out. Polish women were the first to shut down their looms and leave the factory; they marched through the streets of Lawrence shouting "short pay!" They were soon joined by other workers drawn from the city's many different ethnic groups.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzpuJLhUUgwpmE1ZQWpuYvYTk52gj4jwiDe9i6y8Kj5n7o0svQjBDbgU1xFKVXUWS5NXOHlyZ3tDglzGNgfKFVoJhu1ron4xNaXV-7vZUrWvyz8TIfwWDxIePYB0ecekL4uROaT0pEpfo3/s1600-h/breadandroses-3.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363213260549183794" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzpuJLhUUgwpmE1ZQWpuYvYTk52gj4jwiDe9i6y8Kj5n7o0svQjBDbgU1xFKVXUWS5NXOHlyZ3tDglzGNgfKFVoJhu1ron4xNaXV-7vZUrWvyz8TIfwWDxIePYB0ecekL4uROaT0pEpfo3/s320/breadandroses-3.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">Because the country's most established labor organization, the American Federation of Labor, drew its membership from mostly white, English-speaking skilled craftsmen, it had no interest in a strike that involved women and unskilled, foreign-born workers. The AFL denounced the Lawrence protest as "revolutionary" and "anarchistic."</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">The owners were initially unconcerned. Without the assistance of the AFL, the Lawrence workers would never be able to sustain a strike. But the more radical Industrial Workers of the World, (I.W.W.) stepped in and sent organizers to Lawrence. Relief committees were formed to provide food, medical care, and clothing to strikers and their families. One magazine reported, "At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to mold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, comparatively few [broke the strike and] went back to the mills...."</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">The strikers employed some new tactics. Large groups went in and out of stores, not buying anything but effectively disrupting business. Huge marches were organized, with strikers singing songs, chanting, and carrying banners. One reporter wrote, "It was the spirit of the workers that was dangerous. They are always marching and singing.</span>"<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">One group of women carried a banner proclaiming, "We want bread and roses too." Roses signified the respect due to them as women, rather than just as cheap labor. The slogan caught on and provided the refrain for a popular new song—and the name of one of the most important events in American labor history.</span> <span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">Once it was clear that the strikers had solidarity and leadership, management and city officials responded with force. The state militia broke up meetings and marches; soldiers sprayed protesters with fire hoses in frigid winter weather.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">Bread and Roses by James Oppenheim</span><br />
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<tr><td width="6%"><br /></td> <td valign="top" width="91%"><pre><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 100%;">As we come marching in the beauty of the day,
A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill lofts gray,
Are touched with all the radiance that a sudden sun discloses,
For the people hear us singing "Bread and roses, bread and roses."
As we come marching, marching, we battle too for men,
For they are women's children and we mother them again,
Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;
Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread but give us roses!
As we come marching, marching, unnumbered women dead
Go crying through our singing their ancient cry for bread.
Small art and love and beauty their drudging spirits knew.
Yes it is bread we fight for but we fight for roses too!
As we come marching, marching, we bring the greater days.
The rising of the woman means the rising of the race.
No more the drudge and idler - ten that toil where one reposes,
But a sharing of life's glories: Bread and roses, bread and roses!</span></pre>
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<span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">In February, children of strikers were sent to live with sympathetic families in other cities, a tactic that had been used successfully in Europe. The exodus of the children was a public relations disaster for the Lawrence authorities, and they forbade children to leave the city. On February 24th, a group of defiant mothers accompanied their children to the railroad station. Police surrounded and brutally clubbed women and children alike, then threw them into patrol wagons; 30 women were detained in jail.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">Newspapers reported this ugly scene, and people all around the country were outraged. A congressional investigation began. As witnesses described working conditions in the mills and the events of the strike, President William Howard Taft ordered an investigation into industrial conditions in Lawrence and throughout the nation.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">By March, the hearings had caused so much negative publicity that the American Woolen Company decided to settle. On March 12, 1912, management agreed to the strikers' demands for a 15% pay raise, double pay for overtime, and amnesty for strikers. The striking workers had demonstrated a powerful lesson: even traditionally powerless groups such as women and recent immigrants could prevail if they worked together.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Here is what the Massachusetts AFL-CIO Labor Union said about it:</span><br />
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"One of the most prolific strikes in United States history was the Bread and Roses strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912. On the heals of a labor victory in legislation, reducing the work week from fifty-six to fifty-four hours, employers in Lawrence’s mills reacted by slashing wages to compensate for lost work. The mill owners expected their workers to be unhappy about the slash in pay, but did not expect the full scale retaliation that followed.</div>
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Lawrence at the turn of the century was a city of immigrants from many different backgrounds. These immigrants worked in Lawrence’s mills, and because of their different ethnic backgrounds, mill owners believe that the workers would not be able to organize because of ethnic differences. The owners proved to be wrong. In the first week of the strike, angry workers walked from mill to mill hurling bricks and stones through mill windows encouraging workers in those mills to walk off the job as well as a result of the pay cut. During the first week 14,000 workers walked off the job in Lawrence and were followed by 9,000 more in the coming weeks.</div>
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The Industrial Workers of the World, the IWW or “Wobblies,” took a major role in orchestrating and leading the strike. They successfully organized the different ethnic groups who lived and worked together and raised the money necessary to feed and provide for the strikers and their families. Many children were sent away to other cities in order to maintain the resources for the striking workers. This move gained tremendous sympathy from the public, and therefore the factory owners attempted to make sure this practice was stopped immediately. On February 24, 1912, they sent police officers to prevent some mothers and children from leaving Lawrence on a train to Philadelphia. The officers beat up the women and children and caused a public relations nightmare that led to a Congressional investigation of the strike. The owners realized that they had been beaten and finally came to terms with the IWW.</div>
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The true heroes of this strike were the women of the city of Lawrence. Women’s neighborhood associations were focused more the womanhood than ethnic identity, and thus became more inclusive and unifying which significantly helped the IWW to organize the striking workers and their families. Women also were prolific forces on the picket lines. They were better than the men at finding scabs who were attempting to cross picket lines, and were often more militant than their male counterparts."</div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Sources</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">Mass Moments</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">Commonwealth of Toil: Chapters in the History of Massachusetts Workers and Their Unions, by Tom Juravich, William F. Hartford, James R. Green (University of Massachusetts Press, 1996).</span> <span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology, by Joyce Kornbluh (Charles H. Kerr Publishing, 1988).</span> <span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream by Bruce Watson (Viking, 2005).<br />
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Massachusetts AFL-CIO at http://www.massaflcio.org/1912-bread-and-roses-strike<br />
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Labor Notes http://labornotes.org/node/679<br />
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In my last post I spoke about how, as a family, we did not exchange Christmas presents. Being together meant more than any gifts we might exchange.<br />
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By the time I was either 7 or 8 years old, I received my very first Christmas present. My sister Claudia was ten years older. She had left high school to go work in the mills as did many children at that time.<br />
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The first Christmas she was working she bought me my first doll and carriage that she gave me for Christmas. As a child I thought it was the prettiest dolly ever. She even had "hair"! The carriage was grey with some kind of design on the sides and a canopy that went up and down over the doll's head. I spent countless hours playing with this doll. After that Christmas I really don't remember any Christmas presents until I was in high school but again, it didn't matter to us as long as we could all be together. Whenever I think about it, I find it is amazing that the thought of a present never entered our minds. In fact, one Christmas I remember my uncle Albert giving my brother Albert a fountain pen for Christmas. Uncle Al was my brother's godfather. I remember wondering why he was giving him a present! Of course, my brother was five years older than I was so there were many things I didn't understand yet.<br />
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Christmas was so simple then and we were focused on the true meaning of Christmas: the birth of the Christ Child, sharing love with family, wanting to be nowhere but with family. Now that was Christmas!<br />
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My wish for all is that we will once again embrace the true meaning of Christmas. <br />
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In my last post I spoke about how, as a family, we did not exchange Christmas presents. Being together meant more than any gifts we might exchange.<br />
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By the time I was either 7 or 8 years old, I received my very first Christmas present. My sister Claudia was ten years older. She had left high school to go work in the mills as did many children at that time.<br />
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The first Christmas she was working she bought me my first doll and carriage that she gave me for Christmas. As a child I thought it was the prettiest dolly ever. She even had "hair"! The carriage was grey with some kind of design on the sides and a canopy that went up and down over the doll's head. I spent countless hours playing with this doll. After that Christmas I really don't remember any Christmas presents until I was in high school but again, it didn't matter to us as long as we could all be together. Whenever I think about it, I find it is amazing that the thought of a present never entered our minds. In fact, one Christmas I remember my uncle Albert giving my brother Albert a fountain pen for Christmas. Uncle Al was my brother's godfather. I remember wondering why he was giving him a present! Of course, my brother was five years older than I was so there were many things I didn't understand yet.<br />
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Christmas was so simple then and we were focused on the true meaning of Christmas: the birth of the Christ Child, sharing love with family, wanting to be nowhere but with family. Now that was Christmas!<br />
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My wish for all is that we will once again embrace the true meaning of Christmas. <br />
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Love,<br />
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Your cousin Lucie<br />
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1. <b> </b><i>Acadian Odyssey, </i>Oscar William Winzerling,<b> </b>Louisiana State University Press; First Edition (1955). <b>Price: <strike>$100 </strike></b><b <="" at="" b="" priced="" reduced!="" sell="" to=""><b><span style="color: blue;">REDUCED! PRICED TO SELL AT $50</span><strike><br /></strike></b></b></div>
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<li>This hard cover book is in really good condition. The previous owner
used a red pencil for check marks in a margin here and there,
"Maryland" with underscores of names in the index. No dust jacket.</li>
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<li> Content: Exile without end; The Acadian Exiles in England; Nivernois Rescues the Acadians in England; Nivernois Rallies the Acadians in the American Colonies; Acadians Appeal to Louis SV at Compiegne, 1772; The Acadian Colony of the Grand' Ligne; Disillusioned Acadians, 1777; Peyroux de la Coudreniere; Aranda Acieves Removal of the Acadians, The Seven Acadian Expeditions to Louisiana; The New Acadia in Louisiana. 224 pages - Condition: Good because of markings - otherwise, very good.</li>
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<b <="" at="" b="" priced="" reduced!="" sell="" to="">2. <i>The Founding of New Acadia </i>The Beginnings of Acadian Life in Louisiana 1765-1803, Carl Brasseaux, Louisiana State University Press 1997-01 (1997). <b>Price: $50</b></b></div>
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<li>This hard cover book is in very good condition.No dust jacket.</li>
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<li>Content: Children of the Frontier; Dispersal and Survival; Acadians in
the Middle Atlantic Colonies; Frontiersmen in Feudal France; Allons a
la Louisiane: Aadian Immigration 1765-1769; Acadian Settlement Patters;
From Barachois to Bayou: The Metamorphosis of Acadian Culture In
Spanish Louisiana; Acadian Anticlericalism; Cultures In Conflict:
Acadian-Creole Relations; Red Men and Refugees: Acadian-Indian
Relations; The Rise of Slavery in New Acadia; and much more. 229 pages -
Condition: Very Good </li>
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3. <i>Acadian Reminiscences, </i>Felix Voorhies, The Jacobs News Depot Co., Publishers, Opelousas, Louisiana (1907) <strike><b>Price: $100</b></strike><b> <span style="color: blue;">REDUCED! PRICED TO SELL AT $50</span></b></div>
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<li>This is a First Edition with grey hard cover. Title is printed in Gold lettering. Considering the age of this book it is in very good condition.</li>
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<li>The Acadian Reminiscences is a word painting of the life of the
Acadians in the Teche Country in the long ago. The plain, simple
frugal life of these people, their devotion to principle, their unbound
faith in the goodness of God, their love for each other during all
their misfortunes and perilous wanderings, appeal to the heart. The
simple pathos of the grandmother's story comes to us with such
consummate art, that the eye unwittingly grows moist, as the reader
follows the journeyings of this little band, self-exiled and noble in
their poverty, from desolated homes on the bleak Acadian coast, to
their final destination in the hospitable valley of the Teche. . . .
With them [the Acadians] we hear in their peaceful Acadian homes the
first war-cry that startles the country, and shudder at the near
approach of the cruel and merciless foe. We hope against hope that God
or man will interfere in their behalf-till the dreaded day dawns, on
which they must decide whether or not they will be true to their God,
their King, their country, lose all and become wanderers on the face of
the earth; or sacrificing these, supinely yield to Britain, and
continue to live at ease and in plenty in the homes of their youth, and
till the soil hallowed by the graves of their forefathers. When these
issues were presented to them, much as they loved their homes, and the
land that gave them birth, they cried out with one accord: No, no a
thousand times! Sacrifice our religion, our King, our country? No, let
ruin, desolation, despair, let death overtake us, we cannot, we will
not give up those. And so the die was cast. In the utmost haste
valuables were gathered together or thrown into wells, objects of spoil
were destroyed, and they themselves applied the torch that soon
reduced their beloved village to ashes. In the darkness of the night,
lighted only by the lurid glare of their burning homes, they left their
devoted St. Gabriel forever. -Andrew Thorpe from the Introduction. 107 pages - Condition: Very Good</li>
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4. <i>Along The Shores of Saint Mary's Bay The Story of a Unique Community</i><i> Volume I: The First Hundred Years,</i><i> </i>J. Alphonse Deveau, Sainte Anne University Press/Imprimerie de L'Universite Sainte-Anne, Church Point, Nova Scotia (1977). <b>Price: $50</b><br />
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<li>This blue soft cover book is a first edition signed by the author. The first 16 pages have sustained a bit of water damage before I purchased it but the text is intact. </li>
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<li>Contents: Topography, Climate, and Soil; Toponomy, or Origin of Place Names; The First Inhaitants of Saint Mary's Bay, the Micmac Indians; The First Acadian Settlers of Saint Mary's Bay; The Pre-Loyalist English Settlers; The Loyalist Settlements on the Shores of Saint Mary's Bay; The Post-Loyalist Settlements on the Shores of Saint Mary's Bay; The Economy of the First Hundred Years; Family Life Along Saint Mary's Bay; Everyday Life along Saint Mary's Bay Area; Diary of Francois Bourneuf; The Great Fires and Other Disasters; Bibliography. 165 pages - Condition: Good</li>
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5. <i>Histoire du Cap-Sable de l'An Mil Au Traite de Paris Volume 3 (1763), </i>Clarence-J. d'Entremont, Priest, Hebert Publications, Eunice, Louisiana (1981). <strike><b>Price: $100</b></strike><b> <span style="color: blue;">REDUCED! PRICED TO SELL AT $75</span></b><br />
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<li>French hard cover book in good condition. </li>
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<li>Content: Philippe Mius d'Entremont; Les Enfants La Tour-Motin; La Famillle d'Entremont; Les Mius; La Branche Acadienne et la Branche Micmaque; Les Suites de la Concession Hervieux: Bajolet, Pesseley, Pitre, Amirault; Autres Failles refugiees au Cap-Sable: Aubois, Roy, Guy, Sicot, Dugas. 737 pages - Condition: Good</li>
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6. <i>Missing Links Of A Lost Chapter in American History, </i>Volume II, Edouard Richard, Home Book Company, New York (1895). First Edition. <b>Price: $125 </b><br />
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<li>This greatly desired book by Acadian researchers was written by an Acadian who was an ex-member of The House of Commons of Canada. The previous owner was a priest who signed his name and year he obtained the book. The map in the front of the book is a bit loose as are a few pages but as a whole the book is intact. </li>
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<li>Content: The author begins with the Deportation of the Acadians and takes us through their years of exile ending with a letter from Jean Baptiste Galerme to the Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania.</li>
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<li>Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s
and before, as is this one, are now extremely scarce. I considered myself extremely fortunate when I was able to purchase this book quite a few years ago. 384 pages - Condition: Good </li>
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7. <i>Le Drame Acadien Depuis 1604, </i>Antoine Bernard, Clerc de Saint-Viateur, Les Clercs de Saint-Viateur, Montreal (1936). <b>Price: <strike>$100</strike> <span style="color: blue;">REDUCED! PRICED TO SELL AT $50</span> </b><br />
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<li>In French and in its original paperback edition is again greatly desired by Acadian researchers. </li>
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<li style="color: black;">Content: Volume I contains fifteen chapters as follows: Premieres exploration; Poutrincourt a Port-Royal; Premiers missionnaires d'Acadie; Sir William Alexander et les deux Latour; richelieu, Razilly et l'acadie; Charles d'Aulnay a Port-Royal; Nicolas Denys, chef d'industrie en Acadie et publiciste de l'Acadie; L'Acadie au temps de La Valliere; Deux visiteurs de marque en Acadie en 1686; Unce colonie chancelante; L'acadie de 1700, vue par Diereville; Fin de regime francais en Acadie; Les Acadiens s'attachent a la Nouvelle-Ecosse;Fin tragique de l'ancienne Acadie; Denouement du drame: une nouvelle Acadie; Appendices; Index des noms de personnes; Table des Matieres; Table des cartes et illustrations. 459 pages - Condition: Good </li>
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8. <i>Histoire de la Survivance Acadienne 1755-1935, </i>Antoine Bernard, Clerc de Saint-Viateur, Les Clercs de Saint-Viateur, Montreal (1935). Signed by author. <b>Price: <strike>$100</strike> </b><b style="color: blue;">REDUCED! PRICED TO SELL AT </b><b><span style="color: blue;">$50</span></b><br />
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<li>In French and in its original paperback edition is again greatly desired by Acadian researchers.</li>
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<li>Content: Le pays Acadien; Les ruines de 1755; L'oeuvre de l'Abbe Bourg en Acadie; Les origines Francaises du Nouveau-Brunswick oriental; Debuts de la region de Memramcook (1766-1812); Debuts de la region de Caraquet (1755-1812); Pale demi-siecle au Nouveau-Brunswick (1812-1864); Progres Acadien au Nouveau-Brunswick oriental (depuis 1864); Le Madawaska-Restigouche; La Nouvelle-Ecosse; L'ile du Cap-Breton; L'il du Prince Edouard; Les iles de la Madeleine; Labrador et Anticosti; Regions Acadiennes de la province de Quebec; Appendices; Tables des matieres; Table des cartes et illustrations. 465 pages - Condition: Good.</li>
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<strike>9. <i>This Is Caraquet Its history Its people Its tales, </i>J. Antonin Friolet, Self published (1994). </strike><b><strike>Price: $25</strike> <span style="color: blue;">SOLD </span></b><br />
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<li>Beautiful paperback cover. This is an interesting that has been written and published in both English and French.</li>
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<li>Content: Foreword; The Old Lost Road; First Glimpse; About Caraquet; Its People; The Acadian Village; The Laughing Frenchman; Tears of Acadia; An Epic Journey; Wild Flowers; Murder on the Island; The Caraquet Riot; Voyage in the Night; Burnt Fingers; The Lady in the Snow; Tragedy Strikes; The Fisherman's Day. 105 pages in each language. Condition: Excellent - New</li>
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10. <i>Cheticamp History and Acadian Traditions</i>, Father Anselme Chiasson, Capucin, Breakwater Books Ltd., (1986). <b>Price: <strike>$50</strike> </b><b style="color: blue;">PRICED TO SELL AT $25</b><br />
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<li>In paperback with photo of the Cheticamp church on the cover. Father Anselme was well known for promoting all things Acadian. <b> </b>He once worked at the Centre d'etudes acadiennes at U Moncton<b> </b>and since he passed away the centre is now known as the Anselme Chiasson Centre<b>. </b></li>
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<li>Partial Content: Dawning of Acadia and the English Conquest; Geographical and Political Positions of Cheticamp; Founding of Cheticamp before and after the Deportation; Economic Life etc.</li>
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<li> If your ancestors came from Cheticamp, this is the book for you. 316 pages - Condition: Good</li>
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11. <i>The Siege of Fort Beausejour 1755, </i>Chris M. Hand, Goose Lane Editions and The New Brunswick Military Heritage Project (2004). <b> Price: $20</b> <br />
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<li>Content: From the back cover: In the 1750s, the present New Brunswick / Nova Scotia border was a
fortified camp as the British and French vied for Acadia. Fort
Beauséjour guarded the rich fields that Acadian farmers had cultivated
for generations, and it secured New France’s crucial overland route from
the Atlantic to the North American interior. Fort Lawrence, in plain
view only three kilometres away, asserted the British counterclaim. In
June 1755, after a brief siege, a combined force of British soldiers and
New England volunteers captured Fort Beauséjour. The Siege of Fort
Beauséjour, 1755 tells the story of the fort and its defeat. When
Beauséjour fell, so did Acadia and, within a few years, New France. This
campaign determined the fate of the region, precipitated the
Deportation of the Acadians, and changed the destiny of the entire
continent. The Siege of Fort Beauséjour, 1755 is the third volume in the
New Brunswick Military Heritage Series.109 pages - Condition: Excellent - New</li>
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<strike>12. <i>Genealogy of the Thirty-Seven Families/ La Genealogie des Trente-Sept Famillies Hotesses des Retrouvaille, </i> vol. 25, n<sup>os</sup> 2 et 3 (1994), Stephen A. White, Tribune Press Ltd., Sackville, N.B. <b>Price: Make a reasonable offer.</b></strike><b> <span style="color: blue;">SOLD</span></b><br />
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<li>This book really needs no introduction. Acadian genealogists have been using the contents of this book ever since it was published in 1994. </li>
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<li>Family genealogies for: Allain, Arsenault, Babin, Babineau, Bastarache dit Basque, Belliveau, Bordage (Bourdage), Boucher, Boudreau, Bourgeois, Bourque, Caissie, Collet, Cormier, Daigle, Devarennes (Gaultier de Varennes), Doiron, Gaudet, Gautreau, Girouard, Goguen (Gueguen), Gosselin, Hache dit Gallant, Landry, LeBlanc, Leger, Maillet, Martin, Melanson, Petitpas, Poirier, Richard, Robichaud, Savoie, Surette, Thibodeau, Vautour.</li>
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<li> 238 pages - Condition: Excellent - New</li>
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<strike><span style="font-size: small;">1. <i>1666 Census of Nouvelle France/New France </i>Quintin Publications (1998). <b>Price: $25</b></span></strike><span style="font-size: small;"><b> SOLD</b></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;">This soft cover book is in excellent condition. It contains the earliest census of Quebec taken from the Archives of Quebec.<i> </i>If
you do not read French just remember that names are names and places
are places. It is very easy to follow through this French-Canadian
census and to know where your earliest ancestors were living in 1666
Quebec. 154 pages - Condition: Excellent</span></li>
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<strike><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space">2</span><b style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space">. </span></b><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space">1762 Census of the Government of Quebec</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> Amédée Gosselin, Priest, Quintin Publications</span></span><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> (1997)</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> Price: $25</span></b></span></strike><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"></span></b></span><strike><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></strike><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space">SOLD</span></b></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;">This soft cover book is in excellent condition. This census of Quebec taken from the Archives of Quebec.<i> </i>If
you do not read French just remember that names are names and places
are places. It is very easy to follow through this French-Canadian
census and to know where your earliest ancestors were living in 1666
Quebec. 143 pages - Condition: Excellent<b style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space">Including:
South Shore of the St. Lawrence River: Deschaillons, Lotbiniere;
Ste-Croix; St-Antoine; St-Nicolas; Levis; St-Henri; Ste-Marie;
St-Joseph; St-Charles; St-Michel; Beaumont; St-Vallier;
Berthier-sur-Mer; St-Francois; St-Pierre; Montmagny; Cap St-Ignace;
L'Islet' Port-Joly; St-Roch-des-Aulnaies; Ste-Anne-de-La Pocatiere;
Riviere-Ouelle; Kamouraska; Riviere-du-Loup; L'Ile-Verte; Trois-Pistoles
and Rimouski. </span></span></li>
</ul>
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<li><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space">North
Shore of the St. Lawrence River: Les Grondines; Deschambault;
Cap-Sante; Les Ecureuills; Neuville; Lancienne Lorette; Jeune-Lorette;
Ste-Foy; Charlesbourg; St-Augustin; Quebec; Beauport; L'Ange-Gardien;
Chateau-Richer; Ste-Anne-De-Beaupre; St-Joachim; Petite-Riviere; Baie
St-Paul; Ile-aux-Coudres; Les Eboulements and the Ile d'Orleans. </span></span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strike><span class="Apple-converted-space">3, <i>(The) Acadian Miracle </i></span>Dudley LeBlanc Evangeline Publishing Co., Lafayette, Louisiana (1966) <b>Price: $100</b></strike><b> SOLD</b><br />
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<li>A first edition, this book was inscribed to me from a friend. Red
hard bound cover with 419 pages. Given the age of the book it is very
good condition.</li>
</span></ul>
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<li>Contents: Acadian history from the origin of the name through the
exile and more. Also contains some census records, militia lists and a
few ships' lists.<br />
</li>
</span></ul>
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<span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<strike>4. <i>Acadian Redemption from Beausoleil Broussard to the Queen's Royal Proclamation, </i>Warren A. Perrin, Andrepont Publishing, Opelousas, Louisiana (2004) <b>Price: $22</b></strike><b> SOLD</b><br />
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<li>Acadian Redemption: From Beausoleil Broussard to the Queen’s Royal
Proclamation, the first biography of an Acadian exile, defines the 18th
century society of Acadia into which Joseph dit Beausoleil Broussard was
born in 1702. The book tells of his early life events and militant
struggles with the British who had for years wanted to lay claim to the
Acadian rich lands. Subsequent chapters discuss the epic odyssey
during which Beausoleil led a group of one hundred ninety-three Acadians
from Nova Scotia to Louisiana, the New Acadia, with the hope that his
beloved Acadian culture would survive. Condition: Excellent<br />
</li>
</span></ul>
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<ul><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<li>Voted best history book by La Press Women's Association 2004</li>
</span></ul>
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5. <i> (The) Acadians of Madawaska,</i> Maine Reverend Charles W.
Collins, Chancellor Maine Diocese, Boston: Press of Thomas A. Whalen
& Co. (1902) Reprint by Quintin Publications (1997) <b>Price: $25</b><br />
</span><br />
<ul><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<li>Brief Acadian history and how the Acadians settled in Madawaska
also an abstract of Acadians listed in the 1820 census for Matawaska.
There is a tear on the bottom of the back cover that makes the condition
very good rather than excellent - other than the back cover, it really
is like new.</li>
</span></ul>
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6. <i>An Unsettled Conquest - The British Campaign Against The Peoples of Acadia</i>, Geoffrey Plank, University of Pennsylvania Press (2001) <b>Price: $50</b><br />
</span><br />
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<li>The former French colony of Acadia—permanently renamed Nova Scotia by
the British when they began an ambitious occupation of the territory in
1710—witnessed one of the bitterest struggles in the British empire.
Whereas in its other North American colonies Britain assumed it could
garner the sympathies of fellow Europeans against the native peoples, in
Nova Scotia nothing was further from the truth. The Mi'kmaq, the native
local population, and the Acadians, descendants of the original French
settlers, had coexisted for more than a hundred years prior to the
British conquest, and their friendships, family ties, common Catholic
religion, and commercial relationships proved resistant to
British-enforced change. Unable to seize satisfactory political control
over the region, despite numerous efforts at separating the Acadians and
Mi'kmaq, the authorities took drastic steps in the 1750s, forcibly
deporting the Acadians to other British colonies and systematically
decimating the remaining native population.<br />
<br />
The story of the
removal of the Acadians, some of whose descendants are the Cajuns of
Louisiana, and the subsequent oppression of the Mi'kmaq has never been
completely told. In this first comprehensive history of the events
leading up to the ultimate break-up of Nova Scotian society, Geoffrey
Plank skillfully unravels the complex relationships of all of the groups
involved, establishing the strong bonds between the Mi'kmaq and
Acadians as well as the frustration of the British administrators that
led to the Acadian removal, culminating in one of the most infamous
events in North American history.</li>
</span></ul>
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<li>Hard bound with dust cover. Condition: Excellent</li>
</span></ul>
<span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
7. <i>Gentlemen and Jesuits - Glory and Adventure in the Early Days of Acadia</i>, Elizabeth Jones, Nimbus Publishing Ltd (2002) <b>Price: $25</b>
</span><br />
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<li><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Paper back - Condition: Excellent</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
8. <i>Life in Acadia, </i>Rosemary Neering, Stan Garrod, Fitzhenry and Whiteside, Growth of a Nation Series (2003) <b>Price: $25</b></span></div>
<ul style="font-family: inherit;">
<li><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Soft cover - very good condition.</span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">9. <i>Postcards from Acadie - Grand-Pre, Evangeline & The Acadian Identity</i>, Barbara Le Blanc, Gaspereau Press, Kentville, Nova Scotia (2003). <b>Price: $25</b></span></div>
<ul style="font-family: inherit;">
<li><span style="font-size: small;">The book is 6 x 9 inch sewn paperback with black endpapers.
Includes 39 black and white reproductions. The cover includes a full
colour reproduction of a painting by Maurice Le Blanc.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;">
In Postcards from Acadie, Barbara Le Blanc explores the cultural and
symbolic resonance of the Grand-Pré National Historic site. Settled in
the 1680s, Grand-Pré was one of the loci for the Acadian deportation in
1755. From the settlement and deportation of the early Acadians, to the
mass marketing of the Dominion Atlantic Railway and the federal
reshaping as a National Historic site, Grand-Pré has served "as a
historical clue, a focal point, a catharsis, a catalyst, and a
motivator, both for Acadians and for others." Excavating the political
and cultural symbols that have shaped Grand-Pré, Le Blanc explores the
ways in which we negotiate personal and group identity. In Acadian
endeavours to direct and control a sense of identity in a changing
world, Grand-Pré plays a significant role by serving as a place of
heritage commemoration and celebration – of past, present, and future.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Barbara Le Blanc has published numerous articles on Acadian culture in
journals and anthologies. From 1988 to 1992, she was the director of
Grand-Pré National Historic site and from 1998 to 2001, was the
president of the Société Promotion Grand-Pré. She has also served as the
president of the Fédération Acadienne de la Nouvelle-Écosse and the
president of the Folklore Association of Canada. She is currently a
professor at Université Sainte-Anne in the Education department. </span>
<span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">This book was inscribed for a friend but has the author's signature on the title page. </span></li>
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<span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">10 <i>(The) Road to Canada</i> - The Grand Communications Route from Saint John to Quebec, Gary Campbell, Goose Lane Editions (2005). <b>Price: $25 </b></span></div>
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<li><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">This is a really nice little back with great graphics and maps. Condition: Excellent</span></li>
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<strike><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">11. Two Volumes Set for <i>St, Mary's Bay (Catholic Parish Church Registers) 1818-1829 and 1840-1844</i>.Compiled by Father Jean-Mande Sigogne, Transcribed, Edited and indexed by Leonard H. Smith, Jr., Self-published 1975. 2 Volume Set. <b>Price $100 each. May be purchased separately. </b></span></strike><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><b> </b></span><b><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">SOLD</span><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></span></b><strike><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></strike><br />
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<li>These volumes were previously library editions<span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> so they show some wear and tear on the corners and paper back spines. All of the pages numbering 201 and 152 respectively are intact and in very good condition.</span></li>
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<li>These records of the church in Clare, Digby Co., Nova Scotia include the
catalogues of families kept by Father Sigogne. A
French-English glossary is included.The first volume has an introduction by Father Sigogne both in French and English. The second volume contains an introduction by Father Clarence d'Entremont.</li>
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<span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> 12. <i> Le Régiment Carignan/The Carignan Regiment,</i> G.-Robert Gareau, Self-published (2001). <b>Price: $45</b></span><br />
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<li><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">If you read French and have ancestors who belonged to the Carignan Regiment, this is the book for you. 173 pages chuck full of information.</span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Condition: Excellent</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">13. <i>Repertoire/Reportory of the Marriages for St-Andre, Kamouraska 1791-1968</i>, M. L'Abbe Armand Proulx, (1970). <b> Price: $40 </b></span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">French-Canadians had many ancestors who came from St-Andre Parish. Though in French, names are names, dates are dates so it is very easy to use these repertories. There is a French introduction that I would be more than happy to translate for the buyer.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br />
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<li><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Condition: Good: Heavy paper bound. Has had library use. Has a tear top of binding. The 181 pages, including indes, are in good condition.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strike>14. <i>Repertoire/Repertory of Marriages for St-Edouard Parish, Gentilly, Nicolet Cty, 1784-1914</i><b> </b>F. Dominique Campagna, s.c.(1964) <b>Price: $40</b></strike><b> SOLD</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">15. <i>Repertoire/Repertory of the Marriages for St-Zephirin (1846) St-Pie-de-Guire (1874), La Visitation (1898), St-Bonaventure (1866), St- Elphege (1886), St-Joachim (1901) Yamaska </i>County, Quebec, (1969) <b>Price: $45</b></span><br />
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<li><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Condition: Very good</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">15. Repertoire/Repertory of the Marriages for St-Louis, Lotbiniere, 1691-1965. Compiled by Eloi-Gerard, Marist (1966). <b>Price: $50</b></span><br />
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<li><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">This repertory is hard bound. Condition: Very good. </span></li>
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the order received. If you were the first to respond requesting a book, you
will receive a return email confirming this.</div>
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<b>POLICIES</b></div>
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First come, first served. Whoever emails me first with a
request will receive an email confirmation from me, followed by an invoice.</div>
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Prospective buyers who are unsuccessful in their requests
will not receive a personal email back. Instead, please check the book list; if
it is marked “sold” but you did not receive a message from me, it was sold to somebody
else.</div>
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<b>HOW TO MAKE PAYMENT</b></div>
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After receiving your invoice, please submit your payment
within seven days. Buyers may pay as follows:</div>
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PayPal or personal check.</div>
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2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>Buyers from Canada may pay via PayPal only.</div>
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Your order will ship after your payment has cleared. You
will receive an email confirming that your order has shipped.</div>
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No returns. All sales are final.</div>
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Buyers who reserve a book but do not submit payment within 7
days of invoice will lose their reservation and the book will be relisted. At
the seller’s discretion, buyers who reserve books but do not complete the transaction
may be ineligible for future purchases.</div>
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Today's books for sale</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Books for sale! (Want to buy a book? See instructions for buyers at the bottom of this post.)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Prices are for book only. Additional shipping costs to be calculated based on the buyer's location.</i></span></div>
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<strike><span style="font-size: small;">1. <i>1666 Census of Nouvelle France/New France </i>Quintin Publications (1998). <b>Price: $25</b></span></strike><span style="font-size: small;"><b> SOLD</b></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;">This soft cover book is in excellent condition. It contains the earliest census of Quebec taken from the Archives of Quebec.<i> </i>If
you do not read French just remember that names are names and places
are places. It is very easy to follow through this French-Canadian
census and to know where your earliest ancestors were living in 1666
Quebec. 154 pages - Condition: Excellent</span></li>
</ul>
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<strike><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space">2</span><b style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space">. </span></b><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space">1762 Census of the Government of Quebec</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> Amédée Gosselin, Priest, Quintin Publications</span></span><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> (1997)</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> Price: $25</span></b></span></strike><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"></span></b></span><strike><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></strike><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space">SOLD</span></b></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;">This soft cover book is in excellent condition. This census of Quebec taken from the Archives of Quebec.<i> </i>If
you do not read French just remember that names are names and places
are places. It is very easy to follow through this French-Canadian
census and to know where your earliest ancestors were living in 1666
Quebec. 143 pages - Condition: Excellent<b style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space">Including:
South Shore of the St. Lawrence River: Deschaillons, Lotbiniere;
Ste-Croix; St-Antoine; St-Nicolas; Levis; St-Henri; Ste-Marie;
St-Joseph; St-Charles; St-Michel; Beaumont; St-Vallier;
Berthier-sur-Mer; St-Francois; St-Pierre; Montmagny; Cap St-Ignace;
L'Islet' Port-Joly; St-Roch-des-Aulnaies; Ste-Anne-de-La Pocatiere;
Riviere-Ouelle; Kamouraska; Riviere-du-Loup; L'Ile-Verte; Trois-Pistoles
and Rimouski. </span></span></li>
</ul>
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<li><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space">North
Shore of the St. Lawrence River: Les Grondines; Deschambault;
Cap-Sante; Les Ecureuills; Neuville; Lancienne Lorette; Jeune-Lorette;
Ste-Foy; Charlesbourg; St-Augustin; Quebec; Beauport; L'Ange-Gardien;
Chateau-Richer; Ste-Anne-De-Beaupre; St-Joachim; Petite-Riviere; Baie
St-Paul; Ile-aux-Coudres; Les Eboulements and the Ile d'Orleans. </span></span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space">3, <i>(The) Acadian Miracle </i></span>Dudley LeBlanc Evangeline Publishing Co., Lafayette, Louisiana (1966) <b>Price: $100</b><br />
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<li>A first edition, this book was inscribed to me from a friend. Red
hard bound cover with 419 pages. Given the age of the book it is very
good condition.</li>
</span></ul>
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<ul style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<li>Contents: Acadian history from the origin of the name through the
exile and more. Also contains some census records, militia lists and a
few ships' lists.<br />
</li>
</span></ul>
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<span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
4. <i>Acadian Redemption from Beausoleil Broussard to the Queen's Royal Proclamation, </i>Warren A. Perrin, Andrepont Publishing, Opelousas, Louisiana (2004) <b>Price: $22</b><br />
</span></div>
<ul style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<li>Acadian Redemption: From Beausoleil Broussard to the Queen’s Royal
Proclamation, the first biography of an Acadian exile, defines the 18th
century society of Acadia into which Joseph dit Beausoleil Broussard was
born in 1702. The book tells of his early life events and militant
struggles with the British who had for years wanted to lay claim to the
Acadian rich lands. Subsequent chapters discuss the epic odyssey
during which Beausoleil led a group of one hundred ninety-three Acadians
from Nova Scotia to Louisiana, the New Acadia, with the hope that his
beloved Acadian culture would survive. Condition: Excellent<br />
</li>
</span></ul>
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<ul><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<li>Voted best history book by La Press Women's Association 2004</li>
</span></ul>
<span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
5. <i> (The) Acadians of Madawaska,</i> Maine Reverend Charles W.
Collins, Chancellor Maine Diocese, Boston: Press of Thomas A. Whalen
& Co. (1902) Reprint by Quintin Publications (1997) <b>Price: $25</b><br />
</span><br />
<ul><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<li>Brief Acadian history and how the Acadians settled in Madawaska
also an abstract of Acadians listed in the 1820 census for Matawaska.
There is a tear on the bottom of the back cover that makes the condition
very good rather than excellent - other than the back cover, it really
is like new.</li>
</span></ul>
<span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
6. <i>An Unsettled Conquest - The British Campaign Against The Peoples of Acadia</i>, Geoffrey Plank, University of Pennsylvania Press (2001) <b>Price: $50</b><br />
</span><br />
<ul><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<li>The former French colony of Acadia—permanently renamed Nova Scotia by
the British when they began an ambitious occupation of the territory in
1710—witnessed one of the bitterest struggles in the British empire.
Whereas in its other North American colonies Britain assumed it could
garner the sympathies of fellow Europeans against the native peoples, in
Nova Scotia nothing was further from the truth. The Mi'kmaq, the native
local population, and the Acadians, descendants of the original French
settlers, had coexisted for more than a hundred years prior to the
British conquest, and their friendships, family ties, common Catholic
religion, and commercial relationships proved resistant to
British-enforced change. Unable to seize satisfactory political control
over the region, despite numerous efforts at separating the Acadians and
Mi'kmaq, the authorities took drastic steps in the 1750s, forcibly
deporting the Acadians to other British colonies and systematically
decimating the remaining native population.<br />
<br />
The story of the
removal of the Acadians, some of whose descendants are the Cajuns of
Louisiana, and the subsequent oppression of the Mi'kmaq has never been
completely told. In this first comprehensive history of the events
leading up to the ultimate break-up of Nova Scotian society, Geoffrey
Plank skillfully unravels the complex relationships of all of the groups
involved, establishing the strong bonds between the Mi'kmaq and
Acadians as well as the frustration of the British administrators that
led to the Acadian removal, culminating in one of the most infamous
events in North American history.</li>
</span></ul>
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</span><br />
<ul><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<li>Hard bound with dust cover. Condition: Excellent</li>
</span></ul>
<span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
7. <i>Gentlemen and Jesuits - Glory and Adventure in the Early Days of Acadia</i>, Elizabeth Jones, Nimbus Publishing Ltd (2002) <b>Price: $25</b>
</span><br />
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<li><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Paper back - Condition: Excellent</span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
ogne <i>Life in Acadia, </i>Rosemary Neering, Stan Garrod, Fitzhenry and Whiteside, Growth of a Nation Series (2003) <b>Price: $25</b></span></div>
<ul style="font-family: inherit;">
<li><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Soft cover - very good condition.</span></li>
</ul>
<div style="font-family: inherit;">
<span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">9. <i>Postcards from Acadie - Grand-Pre, Evangeline & The Acadian Identity</i>, Barbara Le Blanc, Gaspereau Press, Kentville, Nova Scotia (2003). <b>Price: $25</b></span></div>
<ul style="font-family: inherit;">
<li><span style="font-size: small;">The book is 6 x 9 inch sewn paperback with black endpapers.
Includes 39 black and white reproductions. The cover includes a full
colour reproduction of a painting by Maurice Le Blanc.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="font-family: inherit;">
<li><span style="font-size: small;">
In Postcards from Acadie, Barbara Le Blanc explores the cultural and
symbolic resonance of the Grand-Pré National Historic site. Settled in
the 1680s, Grand-Pré was one of the loci for the Acadian deportation in
1755. From the settlement and deportation of the early Acadians, to the
mass marketing of the Dominion Atlantic Railway and the federal
reshaping as a National Historic site, Grand-Pré has served "as a
historical clue, a focal point, a catharsis, a catalyst, and a
motivator, both for Acadians and for others." Excavating the political
and cultural symbols that have shaped Grand-Pré, Le Blanc explores the
ways in which we negotiate personal and group identity. In Acadian
endeavours to direct and control a sense of identity in a changing
world, Grand-Pré plays a significant role by serving as a place of
heritage commemoration and celebration – of past, present, and future.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Barbara Le Blanc has published numerous articles on Acadian culture in
journals and anthologies. From 1988 to 1992, she was the director of
Grand-Pré National Historic site and from 1998 to 2001, was the
president of the Société Promotion Grand-Pré. She has also served as the
president of the Fédération Acadienne de la Nouvelle-Écosse and the
president of the Folklore Association of Canada. She is currently a
professor at Université Sainte-Anne in the Education department. </span>
<span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">This book was inscribed for a friend but has the author's signature on the title page. </span></li>
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</span></ul>
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<span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">10. <i>(The) Road to Canada</i> - The Grand Communications Route from Saint John to Quebec, Gary Campbell, Goose Lane Editions (2005). <b>Price: $25 </b></span></div>
<ul style="font-family: inherit;">
<li><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">This is a really nice little back with great graphics and maps. Condition: Excellent</span></li>
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<strike><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">11. Two Volumes Set for <i>St, Mary's Bay (Catholic Parish Church Registers) 1818-1829 and 1840-1844</i>.Compiled by Father Jean-Mande Sigogne, Transcribed, Edited and indexed by Leonard H. Smith, Jr., Self-published 1975. 2 Volume Set. <b>Price $100 each. May be purchased separately. </b></span></strike><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><b> </b></span><b><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">SOLD</span><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></span></b><strike><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></strike><br />
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<li>These volumes were previously library editions<span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> so they show some wear and tear on the corners and paper back spines. All of the pages numbering 201 and 152 respectively are intact and in very good condition.</span></li>
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<li>These records of the church in Clare, Digby Co., Nova Scotia include the
catalogues of families kept by Father Sigogne. A
French-English glossary is included.The first volume has an introduction by Father Sigogne both in French and English. The second volume contains an introduction by Father Clarence d'Entremont.</li>
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<span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> 12. <i> Le Régiment Carignan/The Carignan Regiment,</i> G.-Robert Gareau, Self-published (2001). <b>Price: $45</b></span><br />
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<li><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">If you read French and have ancestors who belonged to the Carignan Regiment, this is the book for you. 173 pages chuck full of information.</span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Condition: Excellent</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">13. <i>Repertoire/Reportory of the Marriages for St-Andre, Kamouraska 1791-1968</i>, M. L'Abbe Armand Proulx, (1970). <b> Price: $40 </b></span><br />
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<li><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">French-Canadians had many ancestors who came from St-Andre Parish. Though in French, names are names, dates are dates so it is very easy to use these repertories. There is a French introduction that I would be more than happy to translate for the buyer.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br />
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<li><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Condition: Good: Heavy paper bound. Has had library use. Has a tear top of binding. The 181 pages, including indes, are in good condition.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strike><b>14. <i>Repertoire/Repertory of Marriages for St-Edouard Parish, Gentilly, Nicolet Cty, 1784-1914</i> </b>F. Dominique Campagna, s.c.(1964) <b>Price: $40</b></strike><b> SOLD</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>15. </b> <i>Repertoire/Repertory of the Marriages for St-Zephirin (1846) St-Pie-de-Guire (1874), La Visitation (1898), St-Bonaventure (1866), St- Elphege (1886), St-Joachim (1901) Yamaska </i>County, Quebec, (1969) <b>Price: $45</b></span><br />
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<li><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Condition: Very good</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">15. Repertoire/Repertory of the Marriages for St-Louis, Lotbiniere, 1691-1965. Compiled by Eloi-Gerard, Marist (1966). <b>Price: $50</b></span><br />
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<li><span style="background-color: #d1c3a8; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">This repertory is hard bound. Condition: Very good. </span></li>
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