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
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MY FAMILY CAME FROM GREENVILL CANADA, MY GREAT GRANDFATHER NAME IS SEVERIN JEAN, THEY MOVED FROM CANADA TO BAY CITY, MICHIGAN.
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MY FAMILY CAME FROM GREENVILL CANADA, MY GREAT GRANDFATHER NAME IS SEVERIN JEAN, THEY MOVED FROM CANADA TO BAY CITY, MICHIGAN.
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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.
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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).
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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)
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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
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Thank you for your explanation. Ron
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