French Language Lifelines for the Anglo Genealogist: Tips and Tools for Tracking Your French-Canadian Ancestors

Are you a French-Canadian genealogist, but the language of your ancestors didn’t quite make it down to you? Do you struggle with piecing together their lives when you miss important details hidden in the records? Or maybe you can’t even find them in English language records because the names are so different. French Language Lifelines for the Anglo Genealogist is the help you’ve been waiting for. From the producer of Maple Stars and Stripes: Your French-Canadian Genealogy Podcast comes this guide to everything you’ll need to be a successful French-Canadian genealogist. You’ll find hints for dit names, French sounds, gender, French numbers and dates, and translating church records. It provides many quick-access charts so you can quickly find the information you need. You’ll find lists of names and occupations. There’s a guide to online search strategies to help you be successful with your online research. There’s even sections on gleaning information from records written in Latin.This book features: Strategies for succesful online searchesHow-to guides that take you from understanding pronunciation to locating your ancestors in online indexesClarification of French language peculiarities as they apply to genealogyGuides to translating French language records even if you’ve never had a lick of French!An 11-section appendix with everything from lists of French words to help with Latin church recordsBecome a more efficient researcher with French Language Lifelines for the Anglo Genealogist.