Hello Folks,
Yves Gagné, the noted Québec genealogist, has been researching the
origins of the Daoust family in France for several years now. He is
making progress, more on the ancestry of Jeanne Aubert, the mother of
Guillaume Daoust, than on the Daoust family, but nevertheless, he has
found a significant number of French ancestors for the Daousts of North
America than have ever been uncovered before.
To learn about the Daoust project and read M. Gagné’s recent update
point your browser to http://www.habitant.org/daoust.
M. Gagné was a key researcher on the successful Baillon and Le Neuf
projects and recently completed groundbreaking research on the Amiot, Le
Dran, and Longueval families. In addition, he has published many
im****tant articles in the Mémoires of the Société généalogique
canadienne française. He is perhaps the most accomplished contem****ary
researcher to carry on in the tradition of Fr. Archange Godbout. He has
the talent of being able to read through difficult to decipher legal
do***ents from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and he is
tenacious in his approach to uncovering all the relevant do***ents.
I would encourage all of you who descend from Guillaume Daoust to please
contribute to the Daoust research project so that M. Gagné can complete
another season of researching in the original French records.
Checks can be sent at the following address:
R.-Yves Gagné
1010 De La Gauchetière Ouest #950
Montréal, Qc. Canada
H3B 2N2
Please make the checks payable to R.-Yves Gagné.
For those of you who may not be a descendant of Guillaume Daoust, but do
descend from the Baillon, Le Neuf, Amiot, Le Dran, or any of the other
many families he has published key articles on, I would ask you to
please consider “paying it forward.” By helping M. Gagné now on the
Daoust project you will be rewarding him for the excellent research he
did for you on these other families.
I am confident that we will all be impressed with the findings M. Gagné
will eventually published on the ancestry of Guillaume Daoust. The more
we help him out now financially, the quicker he will complete his
research and publish his results.
Regards,
JP
John P. DuLong, Ph.D.
Acadian and French-Canadian Genealogy
959 Oxford Road
Berkley, MI 48072-2011
(248) 541-2894, home
(248) 890-4853, cell
http://habitant.org
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