- 25″ X 36 1/2”
- Printed on heavy paper, suitable for framing
- Space for 1,023 ancestral names
- Shipped in a packing tube
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294 pages 2020 From the producer of Maple Stars and Stripes: Your French-Canadian Genealogy Podcast, comes this guide to everything you’ll need to know to be a successful French-Canadian genealogist. You’ll find tips for dit names, French sounds, gender, French numbers, dates, translating church records and much more. -
A heritage told through time A history of family, connections, cunning trickster animals, and adventures untold: Old Grandmother’s Tree: A Collection of French-Canadian Folktales is a beautiful compilation of folktales set against the backdrop of 17th and early 20th century Quebec. On her wedding night, a young Algonquin woman is visited by the spirit if her first husband and the trickster animals if Indigenous legends, who encourage her to set forth on a new journey. So begins the Meunier family’s origin story and the many adventures that cine through the generations that follow. Combing richly woven stories and stunning artwork, Joseph Bolton’s and Natasha Pelley-Smith’s Old Grandmother’s Tree is a tribute to an untold story that will touch any reader. -
A heritage told through time A history of family, connections, cunning trickster animals, and adventures untold: Old Grandmother’s Tree: A Collection of French-Canadian Folktales is a beautiful compilation of folktales set against the backdrop of 17th and early 20th century Quebec. On her wedding night, a young Algonquin woman is visited by the spirit if her first husband and the trickster animals if Indigenous legends, who encourage her to set forth on a new journey. So begins the Meunier family’s origin story and the many adventures that cine through the generations that follow. Combing richly woven stories and stunning artwork, Joseph Bolton’s and Natasha Pelley-Smith’s Old Grandmother’s Tree is a tribute to an untold story that will touch any reader. -
560 pages 1997 A translation of Marie Bonier’s book published in 1920. Its pages contain genealogical details about the first 117 French-speaking families who settled in Woonsocket. It also incudes a description of Franco-American institutions and personal accomplishments of outstanding members of the group.
