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From: MartinFamilyTree <martinfamilytree@gmail.com>
To: "Joseph Sievers" <jhsievers@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Stone Masons in Quebec
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Try a google search for "stonemasons +genealogy".
Should be about 10,000 hits.
Carl


On 9/29/06, Joseph Sievers <jhsievers@optonline.net> wrote:
>
> In searching for my mother's birthplace in April 1900 (definitely not
> "Vermont" as claimed in her Social Security application!), I find her
> family in Ancestry  in the 1911 Canadian Census in Dist. 200, S.
> Dist. 8, ED 3, Town of Coaticook (Stanstead) p. 17 (under her father,
> Philias Gagne, chef ("Head" in English, of course). Family lore says
> they came from St. Joseph-Levis, but I can't make any headway at all
> in that direction. Philias was born 1856, according to the 1911 Census.
>
> Question: Are there records of stone masons available? And, pardon my
> ignorance, but under the employment column, it says 'Batisse'. Is
> that 'self-employed'?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Joe Sievers
> Hyde Park
>
> ps: Thanks again to those who helped with the "Perch River" query -
> he's been found!
>
>