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My
booklet on French Canadians in Michigan, part of the Discovering
the Peoples of Michigan series published by Michigan State University
Press, is now available. This is an historical work that traces
the two distinct waves of French Canadian immigrants to Michigan during
the colonial period of the eighteenth century and the industrial period
of the nineteenth century. It can be ordered from the following
address:| Michigan State University Press 1405 South Harrison Road 25 Manly Miles Building East Lansing, MI 48823-5202 Tel.: (517) 355-9543 Fax: (800) 678-2120 |
For more information, and to order online, point your browser to http://msupress.msu.edu/ethnic/frencan_mich.html. The ISBN number is 0-87013-582-1.
Welcome to my web site dedicated to French genealogical research. I am interested in Acadian (also known as Cajun) and French Canadian genealogical research, but I try to keep up with Creole, Métis, Huguenot, Foreign French, French, Belgian, and Swiss research as well. Specifically, this web site offers the following topics:Genealogy Topics
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French-Canadian Genealogical Research in Houghton County, Michigan |
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Bibliographic Guides for French Nobility Genealogical Research |
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Book Review: René Jetté's Traité de généalogie |
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Family Research Projects
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The Origins of James Corse, ca. 1665-1696, Deerfield, Massachusetts |
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Origins of Jean Dumontet dit Lagrandeur, Husband of the Captive Elizabeth Corse |
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McGuinness Family (This is my wife Patricia's web site that I help her produce.) |
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Duluth, South Shore, and Atlantic Railway, Houghton Division, 1910-1925 |
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Translation Service
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Why Habitant.Org?
I have selected the domain name habitant.org for a number of reasons. I like the word habitant because of its historical connections. In Canada, the early French Canadians settlers who cleared the land and farmed it were known as habitants. They did not take kindly to being called peasants. Humble farmers and fur traders though they may be, they were still a step up from peasants and actually lived quite well in comparison to their cousins back in France. In addition, I find the term some what ironic for this web site since I dedicate several pages to families with noble and royal connections. Despite my interest in this topic, I have found that most of the nobles and royals I trace back to had more character flaws and less admirable traits than my simple habitant ancestors. The domain name habitant.org ties in well with Michigan's Habitant Heritage, the journal of the French Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan, which I have published in several times. Lastly, I like the term habitant because it would be recognized, at least in the sense of a common farmer inhabiting the New World, in colonial Acadia, Louisiana, and even the French Caribbean islands.
To learn more about habitants I suggest you go to the Virtual Museum of New France.
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