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1. My g-grandfather, Joseph Guillame PAQUETTE married Marie Brule in 1877 in St. Andre Avelin, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The marriage record says he was from Kantucky. Obviously, this is incorrect. While I have been looking at your site, I noticed that you refer to Kahnawake. I know I have quite a bit of Aboriginal blood and was wondering if any documents still exist that could be referenced for his birth in 1854, and if there is a website. I know it is a reach, but I have had no luck with him at all.
   Thanks,
   Michele
   Note from Evelyn: Answer appears here http://acanadianfamily.com/2009/12/07/evelyn-in-montreal-paquette-m-brule-1877/

   Comment by Michele Martin | December 7, 2009 | Reply

2. Hello, my grand parents where native Adelard Lajeunesse and Yvonne Paquette. I do know they were married at Montebello QC, I am trying to learn more but I dont find them on any census, family search, roots web, archive nationl… If someone can help me please contact me.

   We have picture of them of Adelard doing canoe, sleigh, and
   tipi..

   Thank you very much

   Note from Evelyn: Replied via email.

   Comment by elise | January 9, 2010 | Reply

   • I have been trying to locate Joseph Guillaume Paquette (Father, Charles). Are there any Paquette or Paquet, or Pasquiers in Kahnawa:ke?

     Comment by Michele | January 29, 2011 | Reply

     • Do you know the name of Guillaume Paquette’s wife?
       Evelyn

       Comment by Evelyn Yvonne Theriault | January 29, 2011 | Reply

3. I am looking for the family of Louise Kwarakwantha otherwise known as Louise L’Iroquoise by the Hudson Bay Company born October 17, 1792. He was a HBC guide who was a Iroquois Indian and intermarried with our people.

   There is an extensive family throughout Treaty 6 and 8 who are the descendants of Louise Kwarakwantha or Kwarakwante. He came to Jasper House when he was around 19 years old and intermarried within the nearby tribes. I am looking for more information on his family at Caughnawaga where he was born.

   Thanks

   Comment by Linette Calliou | January 4, 2011 | Reply

4. I am looking for these people…..

   Probably the greatest social success of all, however, has been made by young White Moon (Louis Smith) an Indian with a touch of German blood. Though not yet invited to pose before an easel and at present the chief attraction of a traveling medicine show, this young Indian of twenty-three has more than once been taken into New York parlors and charmed all. No picture can give any idea of his physical beauty and magnetism, which are most marked.

   White Moon has a mother, Kaheroton-Kwas (Weeping Corn Husk), and a cousin, Tsio-non-nio-wa-ne (Big Elk), who are at present traveling with him.

   New York Times September 12, 1897.

   Louis was on the reserve in 1943.
   He died after being struck by a car 08 Sep 1947.
   It is my understanding that he is buried in the cemetery on the reserve.

   I am looking for an obituary, burial information, anything I can find. Does anyone recognize these names?

   Louis Smith was also called Doc Smith and he had very bad eyesight. His mother was called Therese (Felicite) Kaherotonkwas. I can see them on the 1881 census. But where are they buried and where is the papa?

   I have been looking for so long. Can anybody please help?

   Thank you so much.

   Answering privately

   Comment by M L Morgan | January 8, 2011 | Reply

5. looking for information on on our decendents Birth and marriges between Jean Chapados and his wife
   Catherine Larocque,Francois Larocque his wife
   Marguerite Caplan, her father Guillaume Caplan and wife Metis women ?

   Comment by Antoinia J Breau | March 12, 2011 | Reply

6. Our family oral history always assumed that Rose de Lima Lafontaine, born 1827 in Quebec, was the Mohawk in our lineage. But that does no longer seems to be the correct person. In fact, my gr. grandmother, Salome Riel, daughter of Pierre Napoleon Riel of Kanawake seems to be the Mohawk link. What do you think?

   Note from Evelyn: Answered by email

   Comment by Andrew Carpentier | May 9, 2011 | Reply

7. I have a Daniel F. Gray born 1830 to unknown parents. He married Mary Frances Mead (b. 1830, Rockingham, VT) about 1854. The family is on the 1860 & 1870 census for Altona, NY. I believe Dan is on the 1850 Westminster, VT census living in a household not his own, as a laborer. His death certificate says he was born in Waterbury, VT but I haven’t found the records. Most of the family is buried in the Old Mooers Cemetery in NY where they spent the majority of their lives. The 1880 Dannamora, NY census shows Dan as a widower, living in a house hold other than his own. He died at the house of his daughter, Harriet, in August of 1900 in St Albans, VT where he was staying for the last six sick years of his life.

   Myself and other genealogists have looked into this family and can not find Dan’s parents. I have a list of deceased Gray’s in Akwesasne from the mission but need a connecting generation or two. If anyone can help me with these Gray’s I would be ever so grateful. It has been a brick wall for some time.

   I have more information if needed. Would appreciate communication. Dan and Mary were my g.g.g grandparents. Am looking to document them if possible. NOT looking for inclusion in any tribe, money, or etc.
   Thank you,
   Lynn

   Comment by Lynn | October 1, 2011 | Reply

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