One marriage, from nothing
A French-Canadian family, researched from a single 1830 marriage upward to the immigrants, with the workings shown.
On 1 February 1830, at St-Constant on the south shore of Montréal, a day labourer named Louis Comte married Rose David. Neither could sign. We picked their marriage with dice from a parish répertoire, and we are climbing every line of both of them back to New France — one document at a time, every claim graded by a tool that will not let us round up.
This is the notebook: what we tried, what we found, what broke, and what we decided. Start with why this project, look at the case as it stands, or read the method if you want to do this yourself.
Latest entries
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Eighteen charts: the immigrant's name, a cousin marriage, and the third convergence
Steve came back with eighteen charts and the acte numbers written where he said they would be. Every index entry in the records now carries its LAFRANCE number; anyone with the subscription can land on the exact entry.…
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Three sheets, three readings resolved, and a stranger who turns out to be family
Steve printed blank ancestral charts and spent an evening with the couples search at Généalogie Québec — the LAFRANCE index, which sits one click from the Drouin images. He opened no image. He was building breadth: both…
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Correction: where the act images come from
Every source record for a sighted act said repository: Drouin via Ancestry. That was Claude's assumption, written on the first evening and copied into the vocabulary, the template, the method, the About page and the spec…
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Its own colours
The site launched last night wearing ondits' clothes — the cream paper, the wine-red badges, the same two typefaces — because the plan said to copy the grade badges verbatim so the two sites would read alike. Steve…
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Fils majeur: the notebook goes online
The site went live today at filsmajeur.com, the same evening the family was chosen. This entry is about the name, the shape, and the one rule the site is built around. The 1830 act's first words about Louis Comte are…