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DEDICATED TO MY WIFE HELEN
I WOULD LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE MY THANKS TO A FEW PEOPLE WHO HAVE HELPED TO KAKE THIS BOOK A REALITY.TC MY WIFE HELEN,FOR ALL THE LETTERS SHE SENT OUT INQUIRING ABOUT AND OBTAINING COPIES OF ORIGINALS OF BAPTISMAL AND KARF.IAGE RECORDS AND HER KELP IN TRANSLATING THESE RECORDS FROM THE FRENCH OR SPANISH INTO ENGLISH.ALSO IN THE TIME WE SPENT IN LIBRARIES,CEMETERIES,(AND CHURCHES ON OUR VACATIONS LOOKING FOR INFORMATION ON THE FAMILY TREE.TO MY BROTHER CYRIL.OF PALACIOS,TEXAS,FOR HIS TRANSLATIONS OF THE FRENCH AND SPANISH RECORDS,FOR EDITING MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY,AND FOR PASSING INFORMATION TO ME FROM OTHER MEMBERS OF THE FAMILIES,AND FOR THE OLD TINTYPE PICTURE OF OUR GRAND-MOJtEER ANASTASIA BRAQUETTE AND HER DAUGHTER ANASTASIA BOURGEOIS.TO MY COUSIN ANNA (PONS) GUIDRY FOR USE OF THE TINTYPE OF OUR GRANDFATHER CYRIL BOURGEOIS. TO JACK BELSOM OF NEW ORNEANS AND FROFESSOR WALTER J.SAUCIER,DEPT.GEOSCIENCES NCSU,RALEIGH,NORTH CAROLINA,FOR USE OF MATERIAL FROM THEIR EOOK ON THE SAUCIER FAMILY,TO PROFESSOR WALTER J.SAUCIER AND KATHRINE WAGNER SEINEKE FOR MATERIAL IN THEIR ARTICLE "FRANCOIS SAUCIER,ENGINEER OF FORT EE CHARTRES,ILL? IN THE BOOK "FRENCHMEN AND FRENCH WAYS IN THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY 11 EDITED BY JOHN FRANCIS McDERMOTT,ALSO THROUGH THE COURTESY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS,URBANA,ILL.TO MY SISTER ELVIRE.MANY THANKS.SHE IS THE ONE WHO REALLY STARTED KE ON THIS VENTURE .'SHE SUPPLIED ME WITH SO MUCH INFORMATION ON THE DIFFERENT FAMILY RECORDS OF BIRTH,MARRIAGES AND DEATHS.ALSO MUCH MATERIAL COLLECTED FROM THE "DAILY HERALD" NEWSPAPER.AND THROUGH HER CORRESPONDANCE WITH
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FAMILY WHO GAVE DATA ON THEIR FAMILIES.THE EARLY SAUCIER FAMILY OF CANADA 13 BY COURTESY OF "BULLETIN DES RECHERCHES HI STO IRE, VOL. LI I .PAGES 30^312.,LEON ROY,"LA FAMILLE SAUCIER."
I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THOSE MEMBERS OF THE GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH SOCIETY OF NEW ORLEANS FOR THEIR WORK IN INDEXING THE RECORDS OF THE ST.LOUIS CATHEDRAL AND PUBLISHING SAME.I AM VERY GRATEFUL TO THE VERY REVEREND NICHOLAS J. TANASKCVIC.O.M.I.,RECTOR OF THE ST.LOUIS CATHEDRAL AND TO MRS.ALICE D.FORSYTH THE ARCHIVIST AT THE CATHEDRAL FOR MAKING AVAILABLE,COPIES OF THE RECORDS AT VERY REASONABLE RATES.I WOULD ALSO LIKE TC THANK THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES FOR USE OF CENSUS RECORDS AND THE MANY OTHER MICROFILM RECORDS I HAVE USED IN RESEARCHING MY FAMILY TREE AND ITS MANY BRANCHES.THE CENSUS RECORDS,IN MY ESTIMATION,ARE THE BEST SOURCE TO ISOLATE THE LOCAL AREA WHERE RESEARCE IN LIBRAr-RIES,CHURCHES,CEMETERIES AND OTHER SOURCES MAY BE PURSUED FURTHER.PATIENCE, PERSISTENCE AND A LOT OF WALKING ARE USUALLY VERY REWARDING.FINALLY,THANKS TO THE MISSISSIPPI COAST HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY FOR USE OF MARRIAGES IN HANCOCK AND HARRISON CO.AND ESPECIALLY IN THE ARTICLE "SOME MOM RECORDS" BY JORN D.MORAN OF HATTIESBURG,MISS. AND DR. JOHN L.MORAN OF PORTSMOUTH, VA. VHERE I FOUND EARLIER ANCESTORS OR WHERE THEY CAME FROM.