Research Continues
The first written draft of the Vogel Family History was rushed to the printer in time to distribute at our family Christmas Party. Most of it was published here, however there was new material and some tighter editing. Pictures were omitted, I am working with those for the next edition.
I have finally started to use the wonderful facility of the Family History Center at the Church of Latter Day Saints in Tallmadge. For a reasonable fee you can rent microfilms of historical church records and I ordered the film of the Church of St Bibiane-de-Richmond in Quebec where Maurice and Claudia Pilotte were married in 1886.
Mom and I visited the Family History Center yesterday and reviewed the church's record of baptisms, funerals and marriages from 1850 to 1894. It was a daunting task. These are microfilms of the pages of a hand-written record book in French. Some of the writing is illegible to me, but we did find the record of Claudia and Maurice's wedding in October 1886, the wedding of his sister Fidelia in January 1882 and the baptism of two children to Fidelia in 1883 and 1884. Sadly we found a funeral record for Fidelia in May of 1886.
We also have a slight mystery to unravel. The church record clearly shows the birth of Marie Claire Pilotte, daughter to Maurice and Claudia on 12 August 1887. U.S. Census records state that Lumina was born in Quebec and Marie Claire was born in Massachusetts. We are looking into ways to confirm the birth dates and places of Grandpa Pilot's two sisters.
The Pilotte family appears in Richmond church records just in the 1880's. Maurice's parents may have been married in Bagotville, which is north of the St Laurence River, quite some distance away from Richmond. I am requesting more microfilm to further our research in that area.
I have finally started to use the wonderful facility of the Family History Center at the Church of Latter Day Saints in Tallmadge. For a reasonable fee you can rent microfilms of historical church records and I ordered the film of the Church of St Bibiane-de-Richmond in Quebec where Maurice and Claudia Pilotte were married in 1886.
Mom and I visited the Family History Center yesterday and reviewed the church's record of baptisms, funerals and marriages from 1850 to 1894. It was a daunting task. These are microfilms of the pages of a hand-written record book in French. Some of the writing is illegible to me, but we did find the record of Claudia and Maurice's wedding in October 1886, the wedding of his sister Fidelia in January 1882 and the baptism of two children to Fidelia in 1883 and 1884. Sadly we found a funeral record for Fidelia in May of 1886.
We also have a slight mystery to unravel. The church record clearly shows the birth of Marie Claire Pilotte, daughter to Maurice and Claudia on 12 August 1887. U.S. Census records state that Lumina was born in Quebec and Marie Claire was born in Massachusetts. We are looking into ways to confirm the birth dates and places of Grandpa Pilot's two sisters.
The Pilotte family appears in Richmond church records just in the 1880's. Maurice's parents may have been married in Bagotville, which is north of the St Laurence River, quite some distance away from Richmond. I am requesting more microfilm to further our research in that area.
posted by Cliff Vogel | 7:03 AM
1 Comments:
Cliff,
So good to see you back here! Love reading about the family.
Debbie
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