The Livingston Family History - Alive and Well

Unveiling the parents of Antoine Lafreniere born in 1799   As indicated in the posting dated May 4, 2012, Antoine Lafreniere born in St. Croix, Ontario in 1800 was not listed as a child of Jean-Baptiste Desrosiers Lafreniere and Marie Marguerite Loiseau.  Please do not misunderstand.  I am not denying Antoine's existence as he was an important member of our family.  I will confirm in later postings that he married Magdeleine dit Letard St. Onge dit McTavish on August 17, 1826 on Drummond Island and they had many children.  I am simply stating that I am certain that his descendants are different than stated by Doreen's work.   According to the PRDH geneaological database at the University of Montreal, Antoine Lafreniere was born on October 16, 1799 in Maskinonge, Quebec. This is a copy of his baptismal parish record (see upper right entry - unfortunately I could not make this image larger): Here is an overview of the parishe...

Review of February 20, 2012 posting based on PRDH findings: CHILDREN OF ANTOINE III DESROSIERS LAFRENIERE AND MARIE ANGELIQUE PIETTE TREMPE  Since the records developed by the University of Montreal clarified data on a number of our ancestors in my last posting, I thought it would help to review another family posting that I entered on February 20, 2012.  This particular posting included my mini-lecture on conducting family research (I don't mean to lecture; please remember I always mean well - and yes I know that you are rolling your eyes now) and a description of the children of Antoine (III) Desrosiers dit Lafreniere and Angelique Piette Trempe. According to Doreen;s original notes, here is a list of their children: 1. Genevieve born 22 January 1723 at I'lle Dupas, QC.; married 1 January 1743 to Charles Tellier; second marriage 27 May 1771; died 25 November 1782 Berthierville, QC. 2. Joseph Antoine born at Sorel, P.Q. in 1730?, marrie...

 Shedding new light on former postings      After much head-scratching and many hours pondering French parish penmanship, I have decided to rely on a new database of original documents.  Compiled by the University of Montreal, this vast source of Quebec ancestors is called the Research Program in Historical Demography, better known as Le Programme de Recherche en Demographie Historique (PRDH) .  This research database consists of more than 700,000 entries based on original Quebec birth, marriage and death certificates, including those lovely French Drouin collection parish records that made me cross-eyed.  The Montreal researchers have combined all of the documents to share the geneaology of families in the St. Lawrence Valley from 1621-1799. Based on this vast database, I would like to review some of my past postings as it confirms and sometimes denies the existence of some of our ancestors as stated by Doreen's, ...