Monday, February 6, 2012

Back to MY Roots; Let's try the French! Audet Family of St. Pierre de Maulais, France

How hard can it be to locate a village that existed in 1641 France?  Apparently harder than I thought.  I am trying to locate this village on the http://www.familysearch.org site to get a film so I can view Nicolas Audet's baptism.  Well I guess if I forget following like a lemming the other followers of Nicholas (note the spelling changes frequently), and just try what I had to begin with I might find it easier.  So it is in the Archives of Poitiers, the church is the parish records of Maillé, now called Saint-Pierre-de-Maillé, Vienne, France.  Oh, BTW, the FHL has this online for your viewing please.  I was excited for a moment, the computer said it was online, silly me of course it couldn't be that easy.  Okay so off the the film I go.  I'll post his baptismé later. And here it is.  This was found on the geni.com site by putting in Nicolas Audet dit Lapointe and voila!



Anyone with Audet ancestors? Please let me know..........
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  1. Elusive Ancestor HunterFebruary 6, 2012 at 10:06 PM

    So, I've decided that a trip to France is probably in order to continue my early French ancestry. I forget that my roots there start back in the late 1500's to middle 1600s so records are scarce. Darn I was ready to share the fun of trying to read this stuff. The microfilm I was reading today for this time frame and there was only one available to the time, the film shows torn, very fragile sheets of vellum maybe, very thin and hard to read for the most part. So........... I'm moving on................. Look for another adventure tomorrow, I'm thinking the Scots are calling my name.......

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