Salt Lake City 2015 | Research Trip Journal | Day 3

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From left to right: Diane Tourville, Habs Fan and Rhonda McClure, Genealogist at NEHGS, Bruins Fan. The best of friends!

Last night at the Marriott Hotel in Salt Lake City was the welcome dinner for the NEHGS research tour group where genealogists intoduce themselves and tell us about their own expertise. I can’t wait until Tuesday as I booked a consultation to ask about the Bangles, my blog’s pet project.

In the meantime, I plan on working on the family of Peter Tourville in St. Charles County, Missouri. I already know from consulting the indexes on Saturday that I will find deeds for him. I also saw that his father, Toussaint Tourville, sold a land in that county. I will also try to trace Peter Tourville in Jersey County as well as some of his siblings, cousins and aunt.

That should keep me busy most of the day as the library is closing at 5 pm on Mondays. I also sure do not want to miss David Dearborn’s lecture, Migrations Out of New England, tomorrow at 5:30 pm.

I love this tour, it is always great to reconnect with people met over the years and talk about genealogy all the time without boring anyone.

On another note, Genealogist Rhonda McClure and I will attend a Habs game on November 7 in Montréal. See how friendly we are on that photo? Stay tuned for the aftergame photo on November 8!


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2 thoughts on “Salt Lake City 2015 | Research Trip Journal | Day 3

  1. Hi Diane,
    this trip looks so awesome, thanks for sharing, maybe I should join the NE Historical Society group next year to do some high class research. Would also love to do the Same in the Quebec province for my family. You’ve done some fabulous things for the Hubou/Tourville/Courville family I would love to pic your brain. Do you find things here that you cannot find at home?
    And is Rhonda McClure from the Jan McClure/Jean fin line since I am of that line too and would love to know more about how that family went from NY to Quebec.
    best
    Denise Courville Sachse
    PS Which is your primary language as your English is terrific and French seems the same 🙂

    • Hi Denise,

      Thank you Denise, my primary language is French, thank you so much for the compliment 🙂

      As for your questions, yes I do find things I do not find at home, especially for the US part of my research. As well, I can search into French 17th and 18th Century records. I love the help of the genealogists as well! If you come to Quebec, let me know, we’ll go to the Archives together. As for Rhonda, I am not sure, it is the surname of her husband.

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