"Enos" Is Anglicized "Ignace," Which is Sort of Obvious . . . In Hindsight

I've been filling in ancestors from information and documents in the "La France" database at Genealogie Quebec.  I had hit a small road block with a 4th Great Grandfather on my dad's side, tracing up through his mom.  "Enos Dashnaw" or "Enos Dagenais" (depending on when or which record you see) was giving me problems.  I knew that "Enos" wasn't a French name, but I could not for the life of me figure out from what name it derived.

Somewhere -- maybe the St. Alexander's burial records at Rootsweb, perhaps, I stumbled upon a record referring to an "Ignatius" with similar data points. Still, at this point, I wasn't seeing anything. But then it clicked.  Ignatius in latin, Ignace in French.  And "Ignace" pronounced properly (Eeeg Nass) is a heck of a lot like "Enos."

Thanks to that Latin reference, I was able to find what now seems like an obvious Anglicization in hindsight.

I am descended from Ignace Dajenais / Enos Dashnaw and his second wife Rosalie Lantier, who was also known as Rosella Larkin.  Perhaps more on the many forms of "Dagenais" in a later post.

Ancestry / Facebook

Is anyone using the "new" Facebook App for Ancestry.com?  I'm a bit skeptical that it really adds anything for anyone who is beyond a "beginner" level in assembling a family tree.

I have used Facebook on MANY occasions to build my tree and to figure out who family was in distant branches when I've been building "descendant" charts for some of my ancestors.  Lets be honest, when you are putting together a descendants chart for a 2nd great grandfather, its going to get big and its going to contain a ton of people you don't know.  It also going to contain a ton of living people, who are just hard to research through publicly-available information.

Thankfully, a ton of people on Facebook, have no idea on how to control (or simply don't want to control) their privacy settings.  So, I've been able to figure out some pretty widespread relationships using Facebook, using shared public photos of very distant relatives, etc.

I'm just not sure that I see much value in the new app. Curious to know what others think.

Joseph Denis

Joseph Denis dit LaPorte was the son of Ignace Denis and Julie Lafay.  Born about the 4th of December 1811, he was Julius's cousin.

I've not been able to trace him forward.  I'm wondering if he is the Joseph LaPorte who married Nancy Beagle, who's family intertwined back with Francis Nelson LaPorte's family.

Joseph's baptismal record is here:

4th Great Grand Uncle Ignace

I'm posting the Genealogy Quebec index reference and also image of the marriage of my 4th Great Grand Uncle, Igance Denis to Julie Lafay / Lafaille here for reference / cross reference purposes.

 

Ithaca College

I just love this picture of my mom and my Grandma (Mary Frances Maloney) Eagan. Its at her graduation from Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York on June 4, 1964.

Diploma clutched in hand.  Classic black heels.  Looks ready to take on the world!

Completely random aside:  Jay Tarses, who claims my alma mater (Williams College) as his own and his class as the same as my dad's, actually graduated from Ithaca with my mom.

On to Mom . . .

I've recently finished scanning almost all of the slides from my Grandpa Lloyd LaPorte.  "Almost" because for now, I've skipped the nature photos and parade photos.  I'll double check that there aren't any people in them, but am going to postpone actual scanning for some time.

I've still got to upload a bunch to Flickr to begin the tagging process.

Tonight, I've also finished scanning the final photo book from my Grandparents.  So, I begin now, with the several photo albums and scrapbooks that I have from my mom.  Soon, a whole new slew of people!!

The first?  My cousin, Steve Barrett, who is my mom's sister Kathleen Barrett's oldest son, and my aunt Kathy.

French Canadian Research Source

I'd been mucking about PRDH recently and saw their news blurb about teaming with Genealogy Quebe / Quebec Records.  I'd not been familiar with them before.  If you haven't either, check them out.

It is a subscription service, but for $13 CAD / month, you get 75 image views per day.  If you don't view the images, you can still get indexed / summary version of the information w/o charge against your image limit.  Index references like this one:

You can see the link to the .jpg image if you want it in the upper right, but if you are just looking for info, you can skip that and save the credit.  But lets be honest, 75 images per day is actually quite a lot.

So, for $13 / month ($13.54 based on the exchange rate this a.m.) you can get some pretty fantastic searching of the indexed records from Quebec.