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Two Volume Set 2001
A groundbreaking biographical dictionary of the nearly 800 women and girls set from France to populate Quebec between 1663 and 1673. The introduction explains the need for the program, dispels misconceptions about the Filles du Roi, and gives a history of the program in Canada.
197 pages 2016
Jeanne Douillard has spent years studying the history of the French in North America in order to better understand her Franco-American ethnic heritage and experience. This book adds a missing piece to the literature of cultural experience, growing out of one woman’s heart and mind.
History of Compton County and Sketches of the Eastern Townships, District of St Francis and Sherbrooke County Complied by L.S. Channell
289 pages 1896
The book is supplemented with records of 400 families, 200 illustrations of buildings and leading citizens in the county. Includes a biography of the late John Henry pope.
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.
156 pages 1997
Between the mid1800s and the early 1900s over 1,500 individuals came to Woonsocket, Rhode Island from Belgium and France to work in the city’s textile mills. This book features an alphabetical listing of those immigrants, often containing birth, marriage, and burial information.
210 pages 2004
Many Franco-Americans are unaware of the meaning behind the names that they received at their Christening. This publication attempts to cast some light on the meaning of those names. Only the names that appeared in most genealogical research in North American records have been used.
384 pages 2022
This book first examines the much-misunderstood early immigration of women to New France, explaining the need for women in the colony, the difficulties in increasing the population, and the unfounded assertions that these women were prostitutes, not pioneers.