 
Steelworker
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Username: Steelworker
Post Number: 1102
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 12:04 am: |    |
My family came to detroit in late 1800's but have been in north american since late 1600's. Im blessed with a nice french last name. Anyone Else |
Scs_scooter
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Username: Scs_scooter
Post Number: 90
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 5:02 am: | |
I am French Canadian. Great Grandpa came to Detroit in the late 1800's, as well. While doing geneology searches, I hit a wall. No further back than Quebec. Bienvenue au groupe. |
Scs_scooter
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Username: Scs_scooter
Post Number: 91
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 5:08 am: | |
Hey wait a minute... I am already on the Dog Owners list and the Good Looking Folks list. I hope there isn't a limit to my classifications on this forum! I don't wait to appear greedy, ya know. |
Gazhekwe
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Username: Gazhekwe
Post Number: 2275
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 6:38 am: | |
My grandfather Aimé came from Quebec in about 1910, and helped build that big smokestack at Dodge Main. |
Kathleen
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Username: Kathleen
Post Number: 2917
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 7:00 am: | |
Proud descendant of Pierre Roy, one of Cadillac's scouts, and wife Marguerite Oubankikove, a Maumee Indian. Other early Detroit settlers in the family tree have such surnames as Beaubien, Campau, Chauvin, Chene, and St. Aubin. |
Steelworker
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Username: Steelworker
Post Number: 1103
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 12:27 pm: | |
impressive kathleen. There is a small gap in my geneology. I know my great grandpa served in WW1 and grandpa in WW2. I know they came to Quebec in late 1600's and they departed from Nantes, France. Last name is the only that is French every male in my family has married a women from a different nationality. Maybe I will as well |
Kathleen
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Username: Kathleen
Post Number: 2919
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 3:44 pm: | |
Steelworker: Have you consulted The Genealogy of the French Families of the Detroit River Region, 1701-1936 by Fr. Christian Denissen? Once I was able to tie into that genealogy, I was able to trace many ancestral lines back to the founding of Detroit, with info on their Quebec and French roots. |
French777
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Username: French777
Post Number: 466
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 7:08 pm: | |
My French came to america in 1680's to New Paltz, New York later moved to Cincinatti/ Detroit area |