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Quebec Nobility Tables and Dictionary

By special permission of the author, the French-Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan offers to you a copies of Yves Drolet's Table généalogiques de la noblesse québécoise du XVIIe au XIXe and his Dictionnaire généalogique et héraldique de la noblesse canadienne française du XVIIe au XIXe siècle. These two files present detailed data on the noble families that lived in Québec and they are well worth consulting.

Detroit 1701 – Québec 2008 CD Available

The French-Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan announces the sale of a CD “Detroit 1701 – Québec 2008.”  The CD, to be used on a computer with a Windows operating system, was produced as part of Gail Moreau-DesHarnais’s presentation at Québec on 27 June 2008 during the XXVIIIe Congrès international des sciences généalogique et héraldique 2008: The Meeting of Two Worlds: Quest or Conquest / La rencontre de deux mondes: quête ou conquête.

Détroit 24 July 1701 – Québec 27 June 2008
Contents
7 June 1710 list of inhabitants
1710 Détroit Census  (partial list)
1734 Détroit Land Grants (partial list)
1721 Détroit Land Grants (partial list)
1750 Détroit Census
Edward Cicotte Ledger (partial list)
List of Men with Cadillac, 1701
List of Issues of Michigan’s Habitant Heritage
Michigan Bibliography
Speech- “The Inhabitants of Détroit 1701-1763”
Power Point of “The Inhabitants of Détroit 1701-1763”
French-Canadian Genealogy – Sources and Resources: Suzanne Boivin Sommerville

Cost: $5 plus $2 shipping and handling to US addresses.  Add an additional dollar ($1) for mailing to Canada.  Send requests to: FCHSM, P. O. Box 1900, Royal Oak, Michigan 48068-1900.

All Sources Are Not Created Equal CD Available

All Sources Are Not Created Equal
The Couc / Montour Family of Nouvelle France and the English Colonies
2009
by Suzanne Boivin Sommerville ©

A CD with files in Microsoft Word © format for use on a computer with the Windows © operating system is now offered for sale for $7.00 by mail, check made out to:

  French-Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan
P. O. Box 1900
Royal Oak, Michigan, 48068-1900

Table of Contents
Introduction…….. with some important definitions (7 pages)
Narrative………... Prologue & Narrative Account of the Couc / Montour Story. Read this for an                                                overview.
                                               (11 pages)
Part 1…………… All Sources Are Not Created Equal: Judging and reporting sources (7  pages)
Part 2…………… Persistent Errors Concerning Pierre Couc and Marie Mitéouamegoukoué (14 pages)
Part 3…………… The Couc dit Lafleur de Cognac Children (8 pages)
Part 4…………… Louis Couc Montour & the New York Colonial Documents (9 pages)
Part 5…………… Isabelle Couc / Madame Montour (13 pages)
                                             Two of her husbands: Joachim Germaneau & Pierre Tichenet, and
                                             the question of Outoutagan (Jean Leblanc)
Part 6…………… Interpreting Sources, Primary & Secondary (14 pages)
                                             La Tichenet(te) / La Chenette / Madame Montour
                                             Étienne de Véniard, sieur de Bourgmont, and
                                             Antoine Laumet dit de Lamothe Cadillac
Part 7…………… The Proper Use of Sources (13 pages)
                                             Madame Montour and Louis Montour, the English Language
                                             Secondary Sources
Part 8…………… The On-going Quest (18 pages)
                                             Further confirmation of Madame Montour’s identity found in
                                             documents not-previously connected to Isabelle Couc dite
                                             Lafleur de Cognac
Part 9…………… Fine-tuning the Secondary Sources, and Some Questions (17 pages)
Part 10………….  Isabelle’s Children, Section 1 (21 pages)
                                             Andrew Montour, son of Carondowana, and “Lewis,” brother of
                                             Andrew; Michel Germaneau and Marie Anne Germaneau / Montour;
                                             and several digressions
Part 11…………  Isabelle’s Children, Section 2 (24 pages)
                                            Marie Anne Germaneau / Montour, her marriage to Jean Montary
                                            dit Jolycoeur, her contemporaries, and some amazing inter-connections
Part 12…………. Isabelle’s Children, Section 3 (12 pages)
                                            Marie Anne Montour’s last child
                                            The issue of the identity of her father, le nommé La Motte
Part 13…………. Isabelle’s Children, Section 4 (11 pages)
                                            More on Marie Anne and those who knew her and her mother
                                            Some comments on Fact and Fiction and Myth

Also included: “Marriage Contract in New France according to La Coutume de Paris / The Custom of Paris,” originally published in Michigan’s Habitant Heritage, the journal of the French-Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan, Vol. 26, no. 3 (July 2005): 135-137. (4 pages)

The author’s descent from Pierre Couc in chart form (3 pages) is a separate file on the CD.

Surnames of Interest List

A list of the surnames of interest that other members are researching is available online. You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this list.

Public Charity Status

On 6 December 2005, the French-Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan was officially recognized as a 501(c)(3) Public Charity by the Internal Revenue Service. This means that donations to the FCHSM can now be included in your itemized deductions. The Board of the FCHSM will be discussing what project we want to launch as a campaign in 2006 to raise money through donations to benefit genealogists in Michigan. When this project is identified we will share it with our members and encourage them to contribute to it. You can learn more about our Society's charity status by reading the letter from the IRS. The original paperwork, including Form 1023, submitted to acquire this charity status is available upon request.

Our New By-Laws

The FCHSM By-Laws, modified to accommodate the 501(c)(3) status of the Society and adopted in 2005, are available online.

The Value of Membership

For a special editorial comparing the value of society membership to only using the Internet to conduct genealogical research, see Membership in Genealogical Societies.

New Address

The French-Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan has a new address:

The 2008 index for Michigan's Habitant Heritage is now available online as an Adobe Acrobat file. The free reader for Acrobat files is available at Adobe.

This page, and all contents, are Copyright © 2006 by the French-Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan, Lansing, MI. Created 1 April 2006. Modified 25 July 2010 .