As a child, I was asked if I was related to the Dionne quintuplets.It wasn't until recently that I was able to answer YES.But the link goes through my paternal grandmother, Lucina Laplante, not her husband, Victorie Dionne, the name carrier.I am also related to Celine Dion (singer), Marcel Dionne (hockey player), Abraham Martin, and Charlemagne.My lines include Antoine Dionne and Catherine Ivory, Jean Guyon and Mathurine Robin, and Zacharie Cloutier and Xaintes Dupont, among others. I'd love to hear from you about your lineage.
I am researching both past and present links and also write a newsletter titled "Cousins' Corner" including lineage for many cousins.I've included a sample (below)
Please let me know if you’d like to receive this newsletter in the future.
Contact me via e-mail at [email protected] or call me in Illinois at 630-859-3667.
NOTE:THIS NEWSLETTER IS A TEXT ONLY VERSION.GRAPHICS ARE NOT INCLUDED.
COUSINS' CORNER
November 1999Volume 1, Issue 1
HI COUSIN!
Cousins' Corner
Welcome!Bienvenu!
This is the first issue of a Special Newsletter designed with you in mind.All of the recipients should be cousins
(directly or indirectly) of our ancestors -- Antoine Dionne and Catherine Ivory.I hope to share with you my interest
in the family tree, new discoveries we've found, and some personal news about all our family.It will be most successful
when you help me to write it.I'm looking for short articles about you, your family, your interests, your family
tree discoveries or questions.
Presently, I'll try to get a new one out as soon as more information comes my way -- I really need your help too.
So here are some questions to help get you started.Just copy the question, then answer it, & mail it back to me.
QUESTIONS ABOUT YOU:
NAME, ADDRESS, EMAIL ADDRESS
How long have you been researching the family tree?
Do you remember how you got started in it?
Any interesting stories about the family tree?
How about your family?Pets?
Special achievements?Hobbies?Interests?
Which of the children of Antoine and Catherine are you related to?
What do you do now?
Where do you live?
If you supply your lineage, it will be published in an upcoming issue.
I’d Like You to Meet…
Darlene Dionne-Karales.(This is me)
I live in Montgomery, Illinois -- people say that's where Jesus lost his sandals.It's about 60 miles west of Chicago.
My dad, Simeon (Si) Dionne, was born in Fort Kent, Maine in 1917.He's the youngest of his family, and the only one
still living.During my life I remember being asked if we were related to the Dionne quintuplets.Our answer was always
"no, of course not."Then about 30 years ago, dad started doing research and found out that "Yes, we really were related
to them."But it’s apparentlymore through his mom, Lucina Laplante, rather than his dad, Victorie Dionne.Surprise!
But it sure opened a lot of neat conversations.
Several years ago, I attended the 3-day Dionne Reunion in Kamarouska, Canada.By the time I got home, I'd
“rubbed elbows” about 1500 cousins I never knew existed.My niece and I were the only ones I knew when I arrived.
Fortunately, Dad supplied us with the "wallpaper" chart of his family tree, going back to Catherine and Antoine Dionne.
Those who were interested in it bought copies of it (could you have been one of those lucky people?)
Just recently, I downloaded what I thought was a small piece of the family tree.Lo and behold! When I finally read it all,
there was a history that added 24 generations to my dad's 20 generations on the tree.That's right! I found out that through the line of Catherine DeBaillon Deschenes (1645-1687) we are related to Charlemagne of French history in the 700's.
There are kings and royalty.I'm still looking at the other connections, but I hope to complete it in the near future
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