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
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