A Canadian Family

Introduction

A Canadian Family: Vintage Postcard Collection

procastinate - verb. delay or postpone action (Oxford Dictionary)

One day many years ago, after my father Edouard Theriault had overheard heard me wondering about our family origins,  he  handed me a few yellowed sheets of paper which contained some genealogical notes about his maternal Leger ancestors. Then a few days later he added a typewritten family memoir that he’d prepared for an anthropology course back in the early 1950s. My mother Golda Lagace then jumped in and offered me a Lagace genealogy report from Drouin Institute. I was instantly hooked and the thought struck me – why not write a complete and up-to-date  history of our Lagace, Leger, Luce and Theriault ancestors?

Why not indeed? 

By 2003, after more than a decade of interviewing relatives, poring over birth, marriage and death certificates, peering at census returns and studying local histories I finally had a mountain of information. Little did I know that, that was the easy part. Now came the hard part – a few more years of trying to figure out how to organize and publish my work. What to include?  What to exclude? How to share the primary documents ? And what about the publication costs?

Well, for once, my procrastination has paid off.  It’s 2008 –  the Age of Blogs – and I’ve realized that an excellent way to write a family history is to just start writing it – one post at a time – until we finally have that “complete and up-to-date” family history.

And better yet – we can do it together – so let’s get started!

Evelyn Yvonne Theriault (aka Evelyn in Montreal)

December 30, 2008 - Posted by Evelyn Yvonne Theriault | . | Genealogy, Lagace, Leger, Luce, postcards, Theriault