Dans un Petit Village

I barely know where to begin. Last week, my wife and I had the opportunity to spend a weekend in Beauport , Quebec. We arrived Friday evening and had time to settle into our hotel room for the evening. We purposely chose a hotel near the historic area of Beauport. It was not a great hotel but the location was perfect for our purposes. Our goal was to visit all of the sites related to the Parent family and visit the graveyard that was most closely associated with the Parent family. On Saturday morning we had a quick breakfast of coffee from McDonalds and pastries purchased from Premiere Moisson in Montreal before we drove to Beauport the day before. Fortunately, Saturday was a perfect day for a historical/genealogical walking tour of Beauport; it was sunny and warm. There were many sites and buildings that we visited last Saturday, June 1st. I will write about only one or two of them in each post to keep the post reasonably short. We also visited the two oldest cemeteries in Beaupo...

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...