WHERE DOES IT START?
Where does it all start? I could say my interest in genealogy started about 30 years ago. One of my maternal uncles, Marcel Voyer gave me a copy of a family tree that he had commissioned from a genealogists. It showed all the generations from Francois Voyer and his spouse, Mathurine Chauvet all the way through each generation in direct lineage to my maternal grandfather, Joseph Ulric Voyer and his spouse, Alice Bedard. At the top of the tree was my maternal uncle, Marcel Voyer. I remember that Marcel was very proud to show me his family tree. He framed the original but he gave me a photocopy, I still have a copy of that family tree. At the time, I was so impressed with that family tree, that it was possible to trace our ancestors all the way back to the 17th century. I was inspired at the time to try to find out about “my ancestors”, my “Gauvin” ancestors. I am not sure how I found out about the Tanguay Collection (Quebec, Genealogical Dictionary of Canadian Families, 1608 - 18