The Livingston Family History - Alive and Well

Father Gerald Langevin (son of **Edgar Langevin) recently posted on the Livingston family Facebook page: My dad 's, Ed’s, understanding was that Archbishop Langevin referred to my Grandpa Joe and his brothers and sisters as “his little cousins”, but that there was no actual relation. I have the utmost respect for these comments, but I’ve discovered a newspaper article that offers a different opinion. First, here’s a description of John Baptiste Langevin, brother of Joseph Langevin (1857-1933) and husband of Marie Claire Lafreniere*, published by the Winnipeg Tribune on April 16, 1936:   John Baptiste had an interesting life. He married Mary Anna Leonard after he returned from the Klondike in 1920 and she had three children from a previous marriage. John Baptiste became an employee at the Duplex Printing Press company in Urbandale, Battle Creek, Michigan where he worked until age 62. Here's an article, published on March 27, 1936, by the Battle Creek Moon Journal describin...

I've almost completed my work on the Livingston Family Tree, stored on Ancestry.ca, with more than 4300 family members. So I've decided to pursue the truth behind one of the family mysteries: At Helen Langevin's (wife of Ulric Livingston) First Communion on May 30, 1909 at St. Alphonse Parish in Manitoba, Archbishop Louis-Philippe Adelard Langevin referred to Helen as "cousin." I have begun a new family tree on Ancestry.ca to try to determine if they were true cousins or if the Archbishop was simply stating an endearment. I hope to discover the truth before the end of 2026. Attached below is the article published in St. Paul, Minnesota's Catholic Bulletin on June 20, 1915 following the death of the Archbishop. So far, I've mapped out the generations at a high level on both sides of the family. Archbishop Louis-Philippe Adelard Langevin Father: Francois Theophile Langevin Mother: Marie Pamela Racicot Francois Theophile Langevin Father: Etienne Langevin Mot...