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Marielle Bourgeois
P. O. Box 31172
Santa Barbara
Ca. 93130, USA
tel. 805 683 7768

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marielle Bourgeois
P. O. Box 31172
Santa Barbara
Ca. 93130, USA
tel. 805 683 7768

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marielle Bourgeois
P. O. Box 31172
Santa Barbara
Ca. 93130, USA
tel. 805 683 7768

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marielle Bourgeois
P. O. Box 31172
Santa Barbara
Ca. 93130, USA
tel. 805 683 7768

Marielle Bourgeois
P. O. Box 31172
Santa Barbara
Ca. 93130, USA
tel. 805 683 7768

CLIENTS TESTIMONIALS

UNITED STATES

except New England, all the way back to their sources around the world

often in CANADA and/or EUROPE

In search of my wife's Stoddard ancestors

I am from Houston and have traced my ancestors in Louisiana, Natchez and Pointe Coupée, Mississippi. However, the origins of my wife's ancestors were impossible for me to find. A friend of mine from Europe told me that Marielle A. Bourgeois was a competent genealogist with expertise in many countries. I told her that I had traced James Stoddard of Mississippi (name sometimes spelled differently), born in approximately 1748, married to Esther Ford (marriage location unknown), daughter of Joseph Ford whose name as well as those of his sons were in Mississippi records in late 1700's, early 1800's.

Marielle produced court records and other sources from Mississippi of the Stoddard and Ford people. They did not show their places of origins. She traced Joseph Ford, father of Esther, in South Carolina. From South Carolina wills, she found Joseph Ford's parents and the connection through his mother, Mary Brownson, to Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut and to Earl's Colone, Essex, England.

Marielle traced the previous Stoddard generations in the early colonies of Wethersfield, Connecticut and Plymouth, Massachusetts with the early ancestor George Anthony Stoddard/ Stodder, born in 1575 in London, Middlesex Co., England. What an interesting search journey that was for my wife and for me! Jim's Email address: j.fruge@comcast.net

In search of the origins of my Smith ancestors.

My search began in March 2007 and was instigated as a gift for my first granddaughter named Smith Ann, for her baptism. I went into a Family History Center and asked a librarian “Who could trace my Smith ancestors for me?” One lady said gently “Smith is a popular surname, you might have a large ancestral lineage.” She suggested I contact Marielle A. Bourgeois, saying that she was an excellent researcher. A few days later I met Marielle who took notes of what I knew about my Smith families, not just one lineage but two different Smith lines. I provided her with the best dates and names of places I could recall.

As her search evolved, Marielle checked a few information with me and provided updates of her progress. Not only did it become obvious that my two Smith lines were both originating in England. I was stunned to find out that she could trace one line all the way back to Cheshire, England, in 1539 and the other line to Lincolshire, England, in 1474. I was also surprised to find out that my Smith ancestral lineage from Lincolnshire, England is the same lineage as that of Joseph Smith “the Prophet” of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints.

Marielle provided me with her sources of information, including details from the time period of the early “American” colonies. She informed me that some of my early Smith ancestors married within the same family, a first or second Smith cousin at times, probably as to keep their large land holdings in the family.

Given the large size of my genealogy chart, Marielle used a sophisticated European genealogy program to be able to present all information in beautiful color charts that were framed, offered as a gift, and placed on a wall. Beginning to end the project only took 6 months. Mary, Email address: TheFotoGroup@aol.com

In search of our ancestors in France and wherever else?

I reside in Kansas, USA. I knew that I descended from a Frenchman named Fauchier who migrated to the United States as a single man. Records showed him as a French teacher late 1700's in Boston, a city where he married a woman named Martha D.(no surname mentioned) in September 1798. I provided Marielle A. Bourgeois with the information I had accumulated over time about our mysterious migrating ancestor asking her to find his origin in France or other places.

She found my ancestor's baptism document and that of his two brothers in southern France, traced the names of his parents, of his maternal grandparents and of several of his mother's siblings and their children. We now know that members of the family lived mostly in the South of France, including Marseille. We are now exploring the possibility that some of my ancestors lived on islands in the West Indies, which at one time belonged to France – probably Grenada (Ile de Grenade) and Martinique.

What an interesting surprise to discover all these extra pieces of our ancestral puzzle. Marielle is a consciencious researcher - I know you can trust her. Helen. Given that this search is still going on, I suggest you contact Marielle directly at eMail: amarielle@yahoo.com

In Search of my family names: Bassett and Abear

I was born in the Midwest where I had always heard from family members that my ancestors were French Canadians. I started by looking at old Census records but could go no further. I only knew my grandmother's death information, Margaret Bassett and her parents' names: David Bassett and Julia Abear.

I saw Marielle Bourgeois' website and wrote to her for help. She was able to research both my grandparents and gave me information about name changes that had taken place when my ancestors moved from Canada to the USA and later. Through her research Marielle found that Bassett in the States was in fact Bessette in Canada. She traced that lineage to Jean Bessette and Anne Seigneur, a Daughter of the King (Fille du Roi), who came from France in the mid 1600's to Québec. Marielle and I share these Bessette-Seigneur common ancestors. She published an article entitled “Researching Québec Descendants Who Came to the United States” that deals with Jean Bessette and Anne Seigneur, (which is available on a CD-Rom or in printed format).

When my grandparents married in 1879, in Marine, St. Clair, Michigan, the groom was listed as David Bassette and the bride as Adelaide Ebert, born in Canada. We later noted the changes from Adelaide to Julia and from Ebert (Hébert) to Abear. The Hébert (correct spelling of the surname) side of my family was traced to Augustin Hébert of évêché de Paris married to Adrienne Vivier, from évêche Laon, North France, before December 1647.

Because of my French roots, my son is now inspired to learn French in lieu of Spanish in school. I am proud of him and grateful for the hard work Marielle demonstrated to find our French family roots. Judy. Email: kfisk22396@aol.com

In Search of the origins of my great grandfather - in France?

I found my family history through Marielle A. Bourgeois' outstanding research. I had a partial name, profession and the information that my great grandfather was born in France. I had the names of his children and the dates of birth in error and had the wrong maiden name for his wife. Somehow, Marielle was able to dig in and find the answers. Within a few months she had the names, the places, the marriage and baptismal records, from the provinces of Manitoba and Québec for my great grandfather was in fact not from France but from Canada.

An article published in the magazine Les Mémoires of the French-Canadian Genealogical Society, Autumn 2006, entitled "Louis Bourgeois, Un architecte visionnaire" provides details of the life and exceptional accomplishments of my great grandfather, who was the architect who created the plans of the famous Bahai Temple in Wilmette near Chicago, USA. We eventually traced the migrating ancestor, Jacob dit Jacques Bourgeois, surgeon, who had been born in France around 1620 and came to Acadia (today named Nova Scotia, Canada). Some of his numerous descendants went to different parts of Canada, others to the United States and other places. Janet, California, Email: jwb_grant@hotmail.com

In Search of our ancestors who came from Italy? France?

My wife, who is an excellent genealogist, could not find the parents of a couple on my family tree by the names of Pascal Cormea and Angeline Ouellet, married around October 1865 in the USA. We wondered if Cormea and Ouellet were respectively Italian and French names. We asked Marielle A. Bourgeois for her help. She believed that the name Cormea was French, not Italian, and in her opinion it was a transformed spelling of an Acadian name. She also stated that Ouellet would probably be traceable to France, but not directly. She wanted to first check for the Ouellet name iin Canada.

Marielle found the Cormier lineage (erroneously written Cormea in the USA) to Acadia from the parish of Saint Thomas, Memramcook, New Brunswick. She even found a Cormier ancestor who had been a prisoner at Fort Beauséjour, Acadia, during the Deportation of the Acadians of 1755. She traced that lineage all the way back to 1611 in LaRochelle, Charante Maritime, France. The search took her three weeks.

Three weeks later, she traced my Ouellet lineage to Québec and ultimately all the way back to early 1600`s in France. The parents of the migrating ancestor named René were François Ouellet and Elisabeth Barré, who resided in the parish of Saint-Landry, Paris in 1639. We were impressed by the findings. Erwin and Helen Dunbar, dunbareh@msn.com

In search of my Parisou ancestors.

I am a researcher from the New York area who tried for years without success to trace the parents of my Canadian ancestor Lizadore Parisou, born around 1831, based on American cencus records. I assumed he was from Québec and realized that the first name and surname could have been changed in the USA.

Lizadore married in the USA and was a war veteran. Unfortunately the names of his parents were not listed anywhere. I was lucky to find a family diary where it was mentioned that Isidore (spelled that way) and Joseph Parisou were brothers. I traced the death record of a Joseph Parisou, in Chittenango Falls, April 30th, 1893, 75 years old, thus born around 1818. Unfortunately, the names of Joseph's parents were not listed on his death record. I wondered if anyone could find the parents of two brothers, with an age difference of over a decade, when all we knew was their first names - Isidore and Joseph - and a surname Parisou which had apparently been changed in the USA since that name did not exist in Québec.

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