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
Jul 22, 2010
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!
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