How to search this blog? – And much more…

Updated Friday June 16, 2023

I know it must to hard to find your ancestors on Our Ancestors or one of your ancestors’ photos on the Internet, so feel free to ask by writing a comment in the comment section because everything is always free on Our Ancestors and its sequel Our Ancestors II.

Courtesy Dennis Lagasse IV

You can find the search button on the left.

If you type a name into the search box, you might find some lost ancestors I wrote about. Of course if the name is “Sorel” then you might find articles I wrote on the town of Sorel in Quebec also…

More updates down here on the sequel to Our Ancestors.

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Keeping their memories alive

Monday morning – Comparing moustaches

Tuesday morning- Just imagine

Wednesday morning – Just imagine one last time

Where to start?

Sunday morning – 18 October 2020 – Who says genealogy has to be boring?

Sunday morning – 25 October 2020 – How to start?

Where should I start? Maude Powe

Where should I start? Arthur Joseph Myers

Where should I stop?

Where to stop – Old photos

Where to stop – William Costello

Where to stop – Francis William Powe

Written in 2011

Remembering Harvey Louis Lagasse Jr

It’s not over till it’s over…

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Addicted to old photos? Who’s Who…

Contribution by Dennis Lagasse IV’s wife. Addicted to old photos? How about identifying who’s who? There was someone I thought I had seen before on a photo Dennis had sent last year. I had identified everyone on it. That photo was taken in 1915 in St. Hyacinthe, Québec. Fast rewind 1911… Laurette Lagacé, born in […]

Addicted to old photos? Who’s Who…

I got mail

Merry Christmas!!!!! Joe P COVER – Coney Island, summer 1913 – my grandfather Ralph Mocciolo was 15 in this photo. In a few short years he joined the U.S. Army, was shipped to Europe with the Allied Expeditionary Force, and was gassed by the Germans, and survived, in Alsace-Lorraine. Now, the ID conundrum: back of […]

I got mail

My first cousin twice removed – Redux

This was one of my numerous first cousins I had found back in the Land of the Forgotten in 2011.

She is Myra Alexandre, Phoebe’s sister.

young Myra Alexandre daughter of Philomene Lagasse and Jean-Baptiste Alexandre

Beautiful isn’t she?

Myra entered the Land of the Remembered when Carl, one of her descendants, found my blog and told his brother Frank.

I wrote about Frank Archambault on this blog. Frank has shared lots of old pictures since…

Just use the search button. That’s how I get people hooked on this blog.

Frank is a swell guy.

Myra Alexandre and William Archambeault

William  Archambault and Myra Alexandre wedding photo in 1902

I hope you’re still reading this Frank.

Third cousin Pierre

Canadian Pacific 4-4-0 No. 29

Sleek-sided passenger cars contrast strongly with seventy-three-year-old Canadian Pacific 4-4-0 No. 29 throwing smoke over Quebec countryside as it tackles 3% grade north of Lepage, Que., on the St. Lin Subdivision. Occasion was a CRHA Excursion on November 6th, 1960, marking the seventy-fifth anniversary of the driving of the last spike on the CPR main […]

Canadian Pacific 4-4-0 No. 29

A Link With the Past – Redux

I am reposting when the name Myra first appeared on Our Ancestors.

A Link With the Past

That was exactly 12 years ago!

Proceed…

This is the main reason why I started this English version of my blog about genealogy.

Yes, there is a French version with close to 1000 articles. This version has only 208 articles.

I share what people shared with me about their ancestors.

This has been such a great journey into the past.

And it goes on reuniting people.

And it will go on and on and on…

I don’t sell T-shirts or cups with phony family crest and coats of arms…


I share what people permit me to share like this beautiful picture of two beautiful sisters: Philomene Alexandre and Agnes Alexandre.

That’s what we believe they are.

Sisters… but the names could be wrong. 

Myra and Phebe?

So stay tuned…

Fast forward…

To be continued?

Well you have found the right person… Fleeting Interest?

This is post 1665 on Our Ancestors…

Maybe I should calm down when distant cousins are contacting me…

Do you remember when I got  this message on Ancestry from EF last week…

Hello, you posted pictures of my grandfather and grandmother Philip and Elizabeth Archambeault. Trying to learn more about the family.

To be continued…

Well you have found the right person…

I have replaced the photo I had posted with this one where Philip Archambeault’s mother is posing for posterity with her sisters Mary and Helen who is holding her baby. Their mother Philomène Lagassé is behind Helen’s first child.

Myra Alexandre is standing on the left beside her father Jean-Baptiste Alexandre. The Alexandre family emigrated to the United States in the late 1800s. They became Alexanders changing their surname like so many French-Canadians trying to find a better life.

French-Canadians were not that welcomed at first like all immigrants. Many were employed by mills who needed cheap labor…

Fleeting interest?

To be continued?