[FCHSM] Daoust Research Project Update

[John P. DuLong]

Hello Folks,

Yves Gagné, the noted Québec genealogist, has been researching the origins
of the Daoust family in France for several years now.  He is making
progress, more on the ancestry of Jeanne Aubert, the mother of Guillaume
Daoust, than on the Daoust family, but nevertheless, he has found a
significant number of French ancestors for the Daousts of North America than
have ever been uncovered before.

To learn about the Daoust project and read M. Gagné’s recent update point
your browser to http://www.habitant.org/daoust.  

M. Gagné was a key researcher on the successful Baillon and Le Neuf projects
and recently completed groundbreaking research on the Amiot, Le Dran, and
Longueval families.  In addition, he has published many important articles
in the Mémoires of the Société généalogique canadienne française.  He is
perhaps the most accomplished contemporary researcher to carry on in the
tradition of Fr. Archange Godbout.  He has the talent of being able to read
through difficult to decipher legal documents from the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries and he is tenacious in his approach to uncovering all
the relevant documents.

I would encourage all of you who descend from Guillaume Daoust to please
contribute to the Daoust research project so that M. Gagné can complete
another season of researching in the original French records.  

Checks can be sent at the following address: 

R.-Yves Gagné
1010 De La Gauchetière Ouest #950 
Montréal, Qc. Canada 
H3B 2N2 

Please make the checks payable to R.-Yves Gagné.

For those of you who may not be a descendant of Guillaume Daoust, but do
descend from the Baillon, Le Neuf, Amiot, Le Dran, or any of the other many
families he had published key articles on, I would ask you to please
consider “paying it forward.”  By helping M. Gagné now on the Daoust project
you will be rewarding him for the excellent research he did for you on these
other families.

I am confident that we will all be impressed with the findings M. Gagné will
eventually published on the ancestry of Guillaume Daoust.  The more we help
him out now financially, the quicker he will complete his research and
publish his results.

And please, if you are a member of the French-Canadian Heritage Society of
Michigan, let M. Gagné know that you are a member.  I want him to see that
Michigan’s French Canadians appreciate his research.

Regards,

JP
 
John P. DuLong, Ph.D.
Acadian and French-Canadian Genealogy
959 Oxford Road
Berkley, MI 48072-2011
(248) 541-2894, home
(248) 890-4853, cell
http://habitant.org