Searching for my roots has been an incredible experience, I have found "family" all over the world that have become my friends in Facebook, we have exchanged pictures of our children and grandchildren, congratulated each other on special occasions, offered comforting words in sorrowful times, learned about each other's countries, exchanged genealogical data and overall participated in each others lives like real family. I will be forever greatful for this "family" I discovered!
This past week I received an email from one of my "family" member, Paule Valet, providing me with date of birth of my ggggrandmother Jeanne Françoise,
... "J'ai ici l'acte de naissance de Jeanne Françoise le 27 Aout 1751 à Gevingey Il me faut votre adresse mail Contactez moi ...
I sent her my email and she sent me copies of the Baptismal records of the town of Gevingey. How great it is when you have friends likes this to help you out!
Merci mon ami Paule, je suis éternellement reconnaissant!
Sep 3, 2010
Aug 3, 2010
The Swiss in Brazil
Photos courtesy of the government of Nova Friburgo, RJ, Brazil
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| “Memorial da Colonização Suíça” |
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| Urania |
Last names of the first “Colonos Suíços” arriving in 1818.
Note my families last names "Pinel, Rime" underlined.
Unchainer of the Insane
I ordered the book "Philippe Pinel Unchainer of the Insane" by Bernard Mackler (1968) just to read the references to my ggggrandfather's brothers and sisters - I have to get information from wherever I can - and I ended up enjoying the reading, specially the following passage:
"...Present day psychiatry can look proudly at his view of moral treatment for, in many ways, his ideas are finally being put into use. Pinel tried to abandon the inhumanity of his time..."
"...We no longer need to break the chains of mental patients, thanks to Pinel and others, but we still must learn how to care for one another. Pinel left a rich heritage in his idea of moral treatment for it applies both to abnormal and to normal behavior... "
"...Present day psychiatry can look proudly at his view of moral treatment for, in many ways, his ideas are finally being put into use. Pinel tried to abandon the inhumanity of his time..."
"...We no longer need to break the chains of mental patients, thanks to Pinel and others, but we still must learn how to care for one another. Pinel left a rich heritage in his idea of moral treatment for it applies both to abnormal and to normal behavior... "
Jul 22, 2010
Time Travelling
Looking back on my first post and how excited I was to find oldest ancestor Philippe Pinel (ggggrandfather-5 generations), I realized how far I came in such an short time.
Today my oldest ancestors are 8 generations away, my gggggggrandparents, Scipion Pinel + Susanne Oliene (Olieve), Antoine Bugard + Catherine Fabre, Francois Vincent + Claire Charriere, Jean Patrus + Denise Janetjean, all from the mid 1600's. Still missing 4 sets of gggggggrandparents!
This journey through time helped me learn about their lives and the history, religion and customs of the era, not to mention the big improvement it effected in my ability to read (sometimes decipher) French.
It still awes me that I am reading things handwritten in the 1600's! Not books about the era but books that were written at the time, with all the differences throughout the years, like the Republican Calendar with their Vendemiaire, Brumaire and Frimaire, which halted my progress for a while.
Read about the the changes during the French Revolution in this link to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar
Today my oldest ancestors are 8 generations away, my gggggggrandparents, Scipion Pinel + Susanne Oliene (Olieve), Antoine Bugard + Catherine Fabre, Francois Vincent + Claire Charriere, Jean Patrus + Denise Janetjean, all from the mid 1600's. Still missing 4 sets of gggggggrandparents!
This journey through time helped me learn about their lives and the history, religion and customs of the era, not to mention the big improvement it effected in my ability to read (sometimes decipher) French.
It still awes me that I am reading things handwritten in the 1600's! Not books about the era but books that were written at the time, with all the differences throughout the years, like the Republican Calendar with their Vendemiaire, Brumaire and Frimaire, which halted my progress for a while.
Read about the the changes during the French Revolution in this link to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar
Tree Updates
This week I found new information on Barthelemi Pinel and Marie Scribe (Escribe). They moved from Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux to Damiatte (just across the river Agout), France, where records from the Tarn Archives shows more children:
Charles Pinel (brother of gggggrandfather-6 generation), married and buried in the Eglise Saint-Martin of Damiatte. He was married to Margueritte Ribayran on Feb 13, 1760 and had five children baptized at the church, they were:
Marie - 12/26/1760
Jean - 12/6/1762
Anne -11/28/1765
Marie (again, so assume the first one died early) - 6/14/1767
Jean (again, so assume the first one died early) - 9/4/1769
Anne Pinel (sister of gggggrandfather-6 generation, born in Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux), married to Jean Louis Ribayran also on Feb 13,1760
Hippolite Pinel (sister of gggggrandfather-6 generation, born in Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux) - died March 4, 1791 buried at the Cemetiere de la Eglise Saint-Martin, married to Jean Durand on Feb 19, 1737
That's it, more branches for my family tree! Now adding the surnames Ribayran and Durand and when my eyes rests I will return to the archives to see what else I find.
Source: Compiled from information found in the web: http://archives.tarn.fr and other locations.
Charles Pinel (brother of gggggrandfather-6 generation), married and buried in the Eglise Saint-Martin of Damiatte. He was married to Margueritte Ribayran on Feb 13, 1760 and had five children baptized at the church, they were:
Marie - 12/26/1760
Jean - 12/6/1762
Anne -11/28/1765
Marie (again, so assume the first one died early) - 6/14/1767
Jean (again, so assume the first one died early) - 9/4/1769
Anne Pinel (sister of gggggrandfather-6 generation, born in Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux), married to Jean Louis Ribayran also on Feb 13,1760
Hippolite Pinel (sister of gggggrandfather-6 generation, born in Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux) - died March 4, 1791 buried at the Cemetiere de la Eglise Saint-Martin, married to Jean Durand on Feb 19, 1737
That's it, more branches for my family tree! Now adding the surnames Ribayran and Durand and when my eyes rests I will return to the archives to see what else I find.
Source: Compiled from information found in the web: http://archives.tarn.fr and other locations.
Jul 10, 2010
Ruminations from the Web
Searching the web for clues regarding my family has made me (sometimes) wander aimlessly from page to page but also leads me to interesting facts that may not be direct related to me but still worth saving, like this one:
Paul Langevin, the second son of Victor Langevin and ?(mother - have not found a name yet), great-grandniece of the Philippe Pinel (for now I am adding this branch under Jean-Pierre Pinel) was a physicist and supervised by Pierre Curie.
Now the interesting tidbit from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie;
"...In 1911, it was revealed that during 1910–11 Marie Curie had conducted an affair of about a year's duration with physicist Paul Langevin, a former student of Pierre Curie. He was a married man who was estranged from his wife. This resulted in a press scandal that was exploited by her academic opponents... Despite her fame as a scientist working for France,... She was five years older than Langevin and was portrayed in the tabloids as a home-wrecker. Later, Curie's granddaughter, Hélène Joliot, married Langevin's grandson, Michel Langevin."
The things you find in the internet!
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| Paul Langevin - 4th cousin once removed |
Paul Langevin, the second son of Victor Langevin and ?(mother - have not found a name yet), great-grandniece of the Philippe Pinel (for now I am adding this branch under Jean-Pierre Pinel) was a physicist and supervised by Pierre Curie.
Now the interesting tidbit from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie;
"...In 1911, it was revealed that during 1910–11 Marie Curie had conducted an affair of about a year's duration with physicist Paul Langevin, a former student of Pierre Curie. He was a married man who was estranged from his wife. This resulted in a press scandal that was exploited by her academic opponents... Despite her fame as a scientist working for France,... She was five years older than Langevin and was portrayed in the tabloids as a home-wrecker. Later, Curie's granddaughter, Hélène Joliot, married Langevin's grandson, Michel Langevin."
The things you find in the internet!
Jun 27, 2010
Genealogy is like searching the web
Genealogy is like searching the web, you move around from page to page and suddenly you realize how far you are from your original search. Interesting things to be found but should you continue into that path?
Example:
I have found more information on my ancestors, more precisely the parents of Jeanne-Francoise Vincent (wife of Philippe Pinel). They are Jean Vincent and Francoise Gindre (gggggrandparents-6 generation),of Gevingey, France. Now I have four top branches; Pinel, Dupuis, Vincent and Gindre.
How much research time should I spent on each?
Example:
I have found more information on my ancestors, more precisely the parents of Jeanne-Francoise Vincent (wife of Philippe Pinel). They are Jean Vincent and Francoise Gindre (gggggrandparents-6 generation),of Gevingey, France. Now I have four top branches; Pinel, Dupuis, Vincent and Gindre.
How much research time should I spent on each?
May 3, 2010
Genealogy Brick Wall - What to do?
I have moved on past Philippe Pinel (1745-1826) and added his parents Philippe Francois Pinel (1719-?) and Elisabeth Dupuy (?-1757) and his grandparents Barthelemi Pinel (about 1690) and Marie Scribe (about 1700). After that I can't find any connections to other Pinels I found for the same period.
I have sent some inquires and although the Pinel Family of France is very helpful, I so far have found no matches.
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