Hello cyberspace friends and welcome to my Web pages. I am glad you're taking the time to visit with me and I hope you'll like what you are going to see.

Happiness is knowing that I have friends like you. Some of you, I met with the ICQ and PowWow programs and I am always happy to be able to chat with all of you.

Some people say I talk too much.... Well, I think the Internet has been invented for communication between people, isn't it?! . I love to chat about everything under the sun with people I like to spend time with.

So, I am presenting you with some of my interests and a resume of a big project I worked on two years ago in compiling some forty letters my mother was receiving from a Corsican sailor during the Second World War.

I was born in a small village in the province of Quebec. From there, at about twenty years old, I went to work in Montreal and I met and married my husband in 1966.

Soon after our marriage, we decided to move to Ontario, in a small border city. We raised three children who are our pride and joy. They all work in a trade where they are happy and feel productive to the community.

From this  pages you can go see my family tree. From the Pelletier family to the Bernier on my father's side, and on to the Dionne and the Morin on my mother's side.
.

My interests, I should maybe singularise this, MY interest..... What do you think?... Yes I love to surf the Net and find all kinds of nice pages to explore, I love to make friends and to learn about life. I am of the school of life where everything is worth learning and using. Be it about the politics of a country like Canada and your country if you are not from my corner of the world, religion and all what is involve to make a belief what it is; science.... and all the thing that are fun to learn. We are never done learning.

Beside the Internet, the whole computer business has been one of my passions for many years. Learning comes easy for me in that area, so it is giving me the chance to be useful to some people who have more difficulties to get things going. I have been helping people from Windsor and even from Quebec at times.

Another thing I find a lot of fun is travelling on my Scooter Honda Elite 250cc. It is an economical way of transportation, no or almost no pollution, the open space, the speed. Oh, yes, I love the liberty that gives me... And the fact that we don't have a lot of snow here in the most southern part of Canada gives me the possibility to use my two wheels  sometimes in winter,..... when dressed properly. I am not using it now since my son gave me a car to get around. I am getting older and my health is not too good.

And when I am not surfin' the Net, I do some crochet. I like big projects like tablecloths. It is a good way to be productive and to make nice things. Now I always have something in the making, I learned to do stained glass. It is not an easy hobby to master but I like the challenge in the steps I have to do in sequences to produce a nice piece.
.

This is a document I worked on last year. My mother had a war correspondant who was writing to her over many years. These letters were like an intellectual refuge for her and an opening on the world at war then.

Here in Canada, we have been spared of a lot of miseries a war can brings. This young man was in a raging war in the Mediterranean sea and he knew how to tell a story and make it interesting. I translated a good part of it already. We could not find the letters my mother was regularly sending to him but you can almost guess what she was telling him as the war was going on..... and that for many years in fact even some letter were written after the war in 1949.  I did some research to find his son in 1994 and I found him in living in France.  I had a picture of him at three months old.  I also received some information from the naval base in Toulon, France about the ships that man was working on during the war.  A very interesting piece of reading.

The years before the war and a few months when it all started.

The years from 1940 to 1942, in the heat of the combat.

And finally, at the end of the war and a few years after.
.

I helped Marvin, a very good friend of mine, put his page together. His poems are a treat to read and they are all his original writings.  Very uplifting indeed.

The first friend I made when I visited their nice pages, Mélodie de la Mer.

 I am spending a lot of time with my new friends from Quebec, all French people organized in a small group of 12 people. We are having a lot of fun and the friendship is very high. I put up a few web pages to help us know each other better. I can't wait to know all of them in real life. The group's name is Les Moustiques.

A series of 8 pages on Soul Reflection.
...Or go back to the Main Page or a listing of all my English pages.

. My Family Tree

Lots of work, lots of patience to find your roots!!....

My interest started when my father passed away in 1991.  My sister had a family book our mother kept adding to as the years went by... since they were married as a matter of fact.  In this book, we found a marvelous reference source on all members of our family, from us kids to our grand and great grand parents and a lot of informations on some more distant family members.

From all these infos, I thought I could go on with the research of finding our ancestors, those of which we did not have any real details.  My aunt had part of the family tree all organised already on her side of the family, the Dionne.  A cousin of my mother had the Morin side.  I was more than determine to go on with the research.  All I had to do was to add dates for other members of these families I found at a French center near Windsor.  That took care of my mother's side.

On my father's side, a cousin of my father, a nun, had the work done already.  Only three or four generations were missing to link what I knew of the first ancestor to Canada in 1629.  I knew  since I was a child about Guillaume Pelletier who is my ancestor, and the few generation that were listed in my mother's family book.  I just happen to find M. Claude E. Pelletier as I was surfing the Net one day, and since he is compiling every Pelletier he can find, I found the pot of gold....  I had the pleasure of meeting him and his wife last Christmas when I travelled to Montreal.

I worked also on my husband side of the family, and the same happen there also.  Family members had part of the work done and I just filled a few dates.  I published a book with their genealogy and stories about the contempory life of each person.  This took me a whole year to complete.  I have been using the Family Tree Maker program to compile all my work.

In 1994, the small village where I was born celebrated the centennial of its foundation.   A nice celebration, a whole week of festivity.  And a big surprise was in the waiting.  A book with the family tree of everybody.  Talk about a team effort!!.   And since I had  time in the winter that followed, I type all that information in Family Tree Maker.  Amasing how we can find relatives when we do that kind of work.  And the feelings of connection between people are interesting.

You can find my family tree on the Family Tree Maker site where I have listed all my ancestors and my son's family lines too.

You will find more information through the few WebRings on this page and on my WebRings page.

Copyright 1997 Claudette Pelletier Deschênes
.

Sign my Guestbook View my Guestbook.

Third Guestbook Second Guestbook First Guestbook

---

Membre de l'Annuaire Généalogique Internet

[Prev] [Next] [Skip ] [Random] [Next 5] [List Sites] [Join Society]

---

If you want to write to me...

---

.