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Marcel Jean

Marcel Jean

Martha Williamson (View posts)
Posted: 11 Apr 1999 5:19PM GMT
My grandfather Marcel Jean was born in Canada. I would like to locate relatives who knew him and also have any information He lived and died in California Thanks Martha

GENEALOGY

Posted: 3 May 1999 5:35PM GMT
Edited: 7 Nov 2006 1:18AM GMT
MY FAMILY CAME FROM GREENVILL CANADA,
MY GREAT GRANDFATHER NAME IS SEVERIN JEAN,
THEY MOVED FROM CANADA TO BAY CITY, MICHIGAN.

GENEALOGY

Posted: 3 May 1999 5:37PM GMT
Edited: 7 Nov 2006 1:18AM GMT
MY FAMILY CAME FROM GREENVILL CANADA,
MY GREAT GRANDFATHER NAME IS SEVERIN JEAN,
THEY MOVED FROM CANADA TO BAY CITY, MICHIGAN.
Posted: 20 Nov 1999 4:36PM GMT
Edited: 7 Jul 2001 3:54PM GMT
Was your grandfather born in Canada? Mine was and His father and mother were born in France. Marcel Rene' Jean was born in Manitoba Canada.

JEAN

Sharon k. (View posts)
Posted: 8 Apr 2000 4:16PM GMT
Would you know if your Jean family also had a dit name of St. vincent? Alot of French Canadians had 2 last names (which dit means).

Dit

Ron Jean (View posts)
Posted: 10 Apr 2000 7:28PM GMT
How would one find out?

ST.VINCENT

S. Kilpatrick (View posts)
Posted: 11 Apr 2000 4:10AM GMT
Are you asking how a person would find out it there is a 'dit' name for their family name?
1. One way is to get it through the oral
history of your family.
2. Would be (if French-Canadian) to look
in the back of a book by a Rene Jette
who lists various surnames/dit's of
families. For example I have a gr
grandmother whose surname was
Poudrier. Many poudrier's, JETTE
said, used the Lemay. Bingo...then
I found her.

3. another is trial and error...like
my posting this query on the inter
net to see if anyone knows a dit
for St. Vincent (besides those I
am aware of but proved void for me)

Jean

S. Kilpatrick (View posts)
Posted: 11 Apr 2000 4:15AM GMT
Also, like I said, in that book by RENE JETTE called Dictionnaire genealogique des Familles du quebec de origines - 1730....he mentioned that one of the 'dit' (meaning other) surnames that the family could have gone by...for St. Vincent was Jean. Therefore Iposted this query.

You may be aware that it was a VERY common French Canadian custom to use two last names. I don't know why. They just did..and to separate them they would put the 'dit' between them...I use a slash instead. For instance I am looking for any St Vincent's that might have gone with the 2nd last name (dit) of Jean. If I found them it would be written:
St. Vincent-dit-Jean or
St. Vincent/Jean

dit

Ron Jean (View posts)
Posted: 11 Apr 2000 4:37AM GMT
Thank you for your explanation.
Ron

dit

Ron Jean (View posts)
Posted: 11 Apr 2000 4:41AM GMT
Thanks
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