Category: General Genealogy

I apologize for the lack of entries over the last 6 months. Family health problems have left me drained and I have had trouble getting the “must get dones” finished let alone the “want to get dones” If there are any readers left, I’d like to let you know that this blog will be changing…

I would like to wish all my readers a Happy 2008! May it be a prosperous, enjoyable year filled will whatever you want it to be. I have to apologize for the lack of posts on this blog. For some reason, I completely forgot about the research journal and left the Boisvert’s hanging by a…

On a whim, I started to search for Philias and Elzyre on the internet. Who knows? Maybe I’d luck out and find them in cemetery or church index. I put in the search boisvert + duclos + lowell. BINGO!!! I came up with a marriage index page that looked promising. It was the Lowell Area…

[Research Journal #7, Entry #5] I went back to the 1920 census. This time I searched through Massachusetts which may have been a worse idea than working in New York. Boisvert’s were as plentiful as Smiths! I searched for Alphonse since he was 17 or 18 at the time. Perhaps he’d be living on his…

[Research Journal #7, Entry #4] Since I was fairly sure that my brother-in-law’s mother was raised in the United States, I thought I’d take my chances trying to find her with her parents. I had some of the same difficulties that I had with the 1920 Census. Too many Alphonses! And, don’t even ask about…