My family tree page is the gateway
to all the genealogical information I have compiled over the years, including
stories written by my aunts and uncles and pictures I have taken and collected
since my early years in the 1940s. My father's family from which I received my
surname Guay and my mother's family with the surname or my mother's maiden name
Bouffard was only a start. Although it becomes much more complicated than that
the further we go back in generations such as my father's mother's maiden name
was Jalbert and my mother's mother's maiden name was Ferland and so on. This
continues to grow at an exponential rate as you go back in time.
When I started my first research I
was with my eldest son Michael in Manchester, New Hampshire and we stopped in at
the French Canadian Genealogical Society, which has an extensive library of
books from French Canadian Catholic parishes in the United States and Canada. I
had no plans to accumulate as much information as I did and had no
intentions of going as far in generations as I did but my curiosity got the
better of me.
Starting with my father's name and
the help of one of the volunteer staff at the center, I researched marriages and
parents from my father's name Albert Guay back ten generations to Gaston Guay
who immigrated to Quebec City, Canada, then Nouvelle France, from
Montreuil-sous-Bois on the outskirts of Paris, France in the mid 1600s. This
took about one hour and it started my research curiosity.
Upon my return to Manchester,
Connecticut where I live I searched out the French Canadian Genealogical Society
in Tolland , CT, a thirty minute drive, where I continued my genealogical
research into my family's roots. I really need to give a big THANKS
to my aunts, uncles and cousins who have given me information about themselves
and their families so I could enter the data that was not available in the
research books and database such as their children's and grandchildren's birth dates,
marriages, etc. There are still gaps in a couple of my cousin's families but
hopefully I will be able to contact them or vice versa and update the genealogical
database.
I hope everyone finds this interesting
and if they find incorrect, or missing data, that they would let me know with a
letter to me at:
Gerald Guay, 20 Jenny Cliff, Manchester, CT
06040-6825 or
E-Mail me at:
Webmaster@atgerrys.com
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