Késsinnimek - Roots - Racines

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Pour le mois d'août, je publie une variété d'articles de nos auteurs de "chaque mois" et aussi d'autres auteurs. Sans ces auteurs, cet é-zine n'existerait plus depuis 2003. De temps à temps, je pense à moi-même que je devrais cesser la parution de cet é-zine parcque cela m'occupe pendant quelques heures chaque mois. Et puis, je reçois 10 articles and je décide que nos lecteurs aimeront bien lire ces articles même de différents sujets.

Cet é-zine au début était planifié pour les articles de la "famille", de nos "racines". Mais depuis le début, j'ai publié des articles des auteurs qui voulaient nous renseigner de leur opinion au sujet quelconque. Et donc, notre é-zine s'est ouvert à plusieurs sujets.

Maintenant, j'aimerais bien recevoir l'opinion de nos lecteurs à propos des articles de notre parution Késsinnimek - Roots - Racines. Envoyez votre courriel à kessinnimekroots@leveillee.net. Merci bien d'avance de votre participation.

In 1787, Dr. Stephen Allen, a physician in the town of East Greenwich, Rhode Island, decided to build a home in West Greenwich. He purcahsed land on Sharpstreet from John Greene, one of the original petitioners.
Until 1809, Stephen, his wife and his daughter worshipped at the Maple Root Baptist Church on Harkney Hill Road. Most of the people went to the Mapleroot Root Church. However, in May 1809, a group of people petitioned the General Assembly to incorporate as the "West Greenwich and Exeter Union Society". The leaders of this group were Stephen Allen, Beriah Hopkins and Peleg Arnold. Dr. Allen spearheaded the idea of building a meeting house, which was built on land donated by Jonathan Weaver on Noose Neck Hill.

This year, as I indicated in my July article, our family decided to celebrate our cousin's feast day - Blessed Kateri Tekakwitah - with the pastor and parishioners of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha Church in the nearby town of Exeter, Rhode Island, rather than going to Kateri's shrines in Auriesville and Fonda, New York...

The newspapers last week carried an item about a lake in Chile that just flat disappeared. You can make all the jokes you want about how it happened, but the fact is that there was a lake one day and the next day there wasn’t...

For the record, I am bilingual (French and English), and I have my father to thank for the fact that I kept the French of my childhood after learning English once I started school. Papa was fond of saying that a person who spoke two languages was worth two people. Besides, he maintained that French was the most beautiful language to pray God and make love in. Case in point: the English say "I love you," and that's nice. The Germans say "Ich liebe dich" and manage to spit in your ear. The French, now, say softly "Je t'aime" and who can resist?...

I have thousands of vital statistics for my ancestors. The numbers and dates, in and of themselves, are so cold and removed from human experience. Sometimes I try to imagine the character of the human beings reduced in this way to statistics. For example, I can document the births of sixteen children, between 1879 and 1903, to my paternal grandparents in a then-remote village in the Laurentian Mountains, Val David, served by the parish of Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts. All died at a young age except the seven who survived into adulthood...

Excellent links for records in Nova Scotia, from the Acadian-French-Canadian List on Rootsweb. Also, links for a variety of Genealogy Societies.

In 1826, 50 years after the Declaration of Independence was adopted in Philadelphia, John Adams died at home in Braintree. One of the great men of the Revolutionary generation and the second president of the United States, Adams was 91 years old. Shortly before he breathed his last, John Adams whispered, "Thomas Jefferson survives." In fact, 560 miles away at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson had died only a few hours earlier...

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI has approved a document that relaxes restrictions on celebrating the Latin Mass used by the Roman Catholic Church for centuries until the modernizing reforms of the 1960s, the Vatican said Thursday...
Juliana's response: "Oh Joy" this news will brighten the lives of the Agnus Dei groups...

Franco-Americans with a talent for creative writing will find inspiration in the eight books written by Biddeford writer and professor emeritus, Norman Beaupre.

June, July and August, the so called summer of 2007 has been a wonderful experience for me at this point in my life. I have dared to make sense of my life. I am well pleased with what I have done and tried to do. I wish I had done more, had done better and realized that even from the short comings has come much wisdom and good things. Everything has happened for a reason ad some of it is beginning to even make sense...

I was going through my Roller Dex and removing all the old cards, and I came across one for a man born William John Bertanzetti, and his address was 4007 West Magnolia in Burbank, California 91505 and the card was for his foundation that advocated for Education, Medical and Social Direction For People Of Small Stature. He was a very good and decent man whom I admired for many reasons...

Along with the pivotal marriage record of Simon Gosselin and Harriet Denelle, my Grandmother's " Gosselin File" also contained her own, hand-written pedigree of her maternal ancestry, with notes. At this juncture, we MUST give credit to Lorraine Gosselin Harrison. She and other Gosselin family members compiled the entire document to define the descent of the Gosselins of Quebec. Asselia perhaps never even read the file. It was mailed to her by Lorraine, probably after Pioneering was completed...

vec l’acte de mariage crucial de Simon Gosselin et d’Harriet Dinelle, le « dossier Gosselin » de ma grand-mère renfermait aussi la propre généalogie manuscrite de son ascendance maternelle, avec des notes. À ce stade, nous DEVONS rendre hommage à Lorraine Gosselin Harrison. Avec d’autres membres de la famille Gosselin, elle a compilé tout le document visant à définir la descendance des Gosselin du Québec. Assélia n’a peut-être même jamais lu le dossier. Il lui a été envoyé par Lorraine, probablement après la fin de Pioneering...

Voyageur or coureur? Government contractor or black market entrepreneur? Either way, they were hardy men who plied paddle to river and lake throughout Canada to collect furs in exchange for European goods in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. The French government was very well organized and very strict about permits to trade with the natives in New France. The land governed was so vast, however, that enforcement of the law was as successful as holding water in a sieve...

Almost all the families around me live by farming. Very few own their own farmlands. The majority are hired farmhands for a salary or for a share of the farm harvest. Farmers, farmers all around me Always a peso short.

One’s experiences do not by themselves validate an argument. Someone else can quote experiences to the contrary. Surely one can differentiate vocations. Many vocations have different requirements...

The 1812 Overture celebrates the defeat of the French in Russia, but that is not why the Americans always perform it on the Fourth of July, even though for a while they changed the menus in three House of Representatives restaurants to read "freedom fries" and "freedom toast" instead of French fries and French toast because the French did not help them during the war in Iraq. An informal boycott of French goods got everyone's attention, but now that the rightist Sarkozy has been elected, America's Know-Nothings feel better and so have lifted the boycott...

Our Blessed Dina has a heart that is disposed to wonderment, to praise. If we practice to be like Dina sun of comfort and of encouragement for others!...

Notre bienheureuse Dina a un cœur disposé à l'émerveillement, à la louange.
Si nous nous exercions à être comme Dina des soleils de réconfort et d'encouragement pour les autres ? ...