While entering a child’s baptism date on my genealogy database only to realize a few minutes later that the burial date is so close, I can’t help thinking about Normand, the big brother I never had the chance to know. And thinking about some women who lived during the eighteen and nineteen centuries and who had 10 children, or even 15 in some cases, and that so many of them never made it to adulthood, I wonder how these mothers could cope with their grief. Did they become resigned? An era in which it was heartbreaking being a mother.

Statistics

Letter N: Almost 2 % for the Hubou-Tourvilles’ first names.

Napoléon counts for the third of the letter N. Then we have Narcisse, Norbert, Nicolas, Norman as well as Nellie, Nettie, Nora and Nancy for the women.

Kind of Funny

What’s your choice?

The 2016 ChallengeAZ is proposed by Sophie Boudarel of La Gazette des ancêtres