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Tag: Genealogy
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A Robineau Behind the Iron Curtain?
I want to take a wider look at the name itself — because while my own line runs back through…
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The Census That Revealed Leda’s World
I never knew my grandmother in the way you know a person — measured by dates, our lives barely overlapped.…
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One Robineau Family and the move westward from Lac Des Deux Montagnes to Ripon to Sturgeon Falls: Joseph Robineau and Éléonore Farmer
If the first chapters of this family story moved west across an ocean, the next ones move west from Lac…
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Simon Robineau and Anne Robineau (Larcher): Michel’s parents
L’histoire commence par un contrat de mariage daté de février 1710. Every family tree has an edge — a last…
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From Saint-Roch to New France
By this point in his story, Michel Robineau has been baptized — around 1683, at Saint-Roch in Paris — and…
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The Mystery Behind Michel Robineau’s Second Name: Dit Desmoulins
Mon premier ancêtre en Nouvelle-France était Michel Robineau dit Desmoulins. Il est arrivé vers 1700. My first ancestor in New…
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A Parisian Coincidence Three Centuries in the Making
In 2008, two years before I caught the genealogy bug, my wife, daughter, and I went to England. Somewhere in…