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Originally Posted by u crank
You may have good luck with that search as the Catholic church usually keeps very good baptismal records. I have a cousin who was able to trace my Dad's family back five generations to the first guy who landed on PEI back in the late 1700's. He came from the Brittany region in NW France. It's always interesting to see what your ancestors were up to.
I discovered that after my grandfather's first wife died he married a woman twenty years younger than him. They had a big family but he died in 1934 and left my grandmother to raise a family of nine by herself. She was the only grandparent I ever met and got to know. Amazing woman.
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From my dad's side I have a first cousin in Norway that has found and shared a treasure trove of ancestral church records going back to B.C. times. I reckon all that cold weather preserves many things.
Through DNA analyses I've been in touch with other like minded relatives in Sweden and Finland I never knew existed.
But from my mom's French and Prussian side of the family its been very difficult to get information beyond North America. Appears they're not as interested in finding ancestral links which could alert us to each others presence. Additionally for me any information from European sources present language barriers. I'd bet too many of them and their records found themselves in the direct path of two world wars so it makes going forward difficult
I shall endeavor to persevere.