Purdy Bear Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 Iv traced a lot of my family tree, but Iv come up with a minor problem. My elderly father remembers some Canadian Native Indians coming to visit his mother, they were cousins. Does anyone know how I can trace this link? I havent found any link to the Canada or the USA at present. Link to comment
Snowmom Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 I'm not sure where you should start, but, I would take names and go to: http://www.canadagenweb.org/ start with the place closes to you or your dad's home state and see if you can find anything. I haven't gone to http://www.canadagenweb.org/ at all ever and just took a chance they had a place like this. I may try to use it myself. According to my mother there is French Canadian in our blood line. I've not figured out just who it is, so this might be a starting place for me too. Here is another place I use a lot. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi Hope you can find some of your family. Please let us know if you do and you might want to add a few names to see if anyone else here has those names in their family line. Link to comment
gramma lois Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 Iv traced a lot of my family tree, but Iv come up with a minor problem. My elderly father remembers some Canadian Native Indians coming to visit his mother, they were cousins. Does anyone know how I can trace this link? I havent found any link to the Canada or the USA at present. Hi PurdyBear - My ancestors (father...) are N.A. native - hailing from the U.S. and migrated to Canada. It is not always an easy process trying to find any records of ancestry because a large volume of records were kept by the Jesuits or Anglicans, and many many records were either lost to fire or are now buried deep in archives. Also there was no written language for many tribes here with the exception of the Cree, so what the Jesuits and other recorders did was write the names of the people as they 'sounded', and with an emphasis on their own (largely french here) pronunciation. After a long and laborious search I finally found my kin on record, and it was sheer good fortune that led me to them at the end of the day. I was lucky enough to cross paths with a retired Jesuit who understood that my kins names may have been interpreted as a different 'sounding' name and written as such. He was right, and we found my kin under that pronunciation...all records up to my father's generation. Another stroke of luck was that this retired Jesuit was actually in the area to retrieve ALL of those old records from the area churches and take them to archives in Ottawa - where they remain now. A good place to start would be to try to narrow your search to the area in Canada that your father's kin came from. If you can get a specific site (town, village, reserve) then you may be on your way. If you have names, marriage information...then you can begin to search the birth, death, marriage archives at census canada. You need to have a starting point though - names, locations, or tribal affilitation, because these records can be very challenging to find should they be archived somewhere. Finally, if you do have a tribal affiliation and a name then I would just get in touch with someone in that tribe in that area and ask for their assistance. Hope this was somewhat helpful, and feel free to pm me if I can be of more assistance. Good luck in your search. Link to comment
Ambergris Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 I have a buddy who's miqmak. You want me to ask her? Link to comment
gramma lois Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Ojibwa, Cree, and Metis in my area. PurdyBear do you have a family name - not asking you to post it, just wondering? Link to comment
Purdy Bear Posted April 18, 2009 Author Share Posted April 18, 2009 No I dont have any other information that they visited the UK. Maybe I need to trace all the family tree until I find one that went to Canada. They obviously then married into the Indian Tribe from there. I know they spoke French, but thats about it. Link to comment
gramma lois Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 No I dont have any other information that they visited the UK. Maybe I need to trace all the family tree until I find one that went to Canada. They obviously then married into the Indian Tribe from there. I know they spoke French, but thats about it. Well it doesn't sound like you have a whole lot to go on Purdy Bear, so good idea if you can to trace whomever came to Canada, and search census records for that particular person(s). As far as speaking French goes, that would cover alot of territory in this country, and if your people were fur traders (as more often than not the French/Indian (Metis) were, there may be more records available to search in that stream...Hudson Bay Trading records, Church records... . Link to comment
gramma lois Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 Purdy Bear - On a final note - in the event that you do get a start on your search here are some links that I believe will help you in your search...Good Luck Government of Canada site with some helpful links for Canadian Native geneology search http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealo...-905.003-e.html A link with select native canadian geneolgy site links - many are links for Metis (French/Native) population http://www.othermetis.net/AboGene/genelink...etis%20Genlinks This looks like a very good site with great links for upper Canada searches (Ontario) http://www.uppercanadagenealogy.com/ Link to comment
Purdy Bear Posted April 23, 2009 Author Share Posted April 23, 2009 Thanks for that. Iv saved the page to my pc. Link to comment
Snowmom Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 I was just doing some looking around and I found this, I don't know if it will help you or not, but, here it is. http://www.francogene.com/quebec--genealogy/999/index.php Link to comment
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