Paul Sableman, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.
When I was in St. Louis, over three years ago, I spent two days at the Missouri History Museum Library & Research Center to work on the Tourvilles, of course, but also on the Roussel/Fasnacht couple, and the Caillou family featured on this blog.
Well, online trees sometimes prove to be helpful when they happen to provide you with new leads. Continue reading
By now, you ought to know about my passion for Tourvilles living in Missouri. What basically started with the sole objective of coming up with the death places and dates of Charles Tourville and Émilie Rousselle’s two daughters turned into an extensive and captivating research project—a real obsession. Continue reading
What a gorgeous and sunny day it was! So hot and humid though!
Here are some pictures that will give you an idea of the day spent in company of Liz Loveland: Continue reading
After such a busy month (ChallengeAZ 2016) and vaguely dealing with the idea of rewarding myself with well-deserved time off, I—guess what?—ended up on the Web. I then realized that the Holy Family Parish records for Cahokia, St. Clair County, Illinois were available on Family Search. For those unfamiliar with the area, Cahokia and St. Louis, Missouri almost face each other across the Mississippi River. Continue reading
When I look at the public member trees on Ancestry with regard to Véronique Caillou, I note that details about her come in various ways:
I think these members might have been misled. Continue reading
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, Tuesday, September 22, 1896, page 10
WEDDED AT CLAYTON.
Charles B. Tourville and Miss Katherine F. Molzier Married.
Charles B. Tourville is a widower with romantic ideas. He concluded to take a wife to comfort him and look after his three children. He went out of town to get a wife and to preserve the harmonies he went out of town and got married. The lady’s name is Katherine F. Molzier and she hails from Greenville Ill.
The couple were married at Clayton Monday. Tourville was formerly a conductor on the Southern Electric Railway.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sunday, September 1, 1901, page 6
Well, He Opened the Trunk With an Ax, Found It Full of Lingerie and Answered an “Ad.”
It started when Grandpa Tourville decided last Wednesday to leave the home of his son, C. B. Tourville of 4719 Greer avenue, and go downtown to board. Continue reading
The very preliminary steps of the first acknowledged trip in which Toussaint Tourville and his older brother Pierre were involved as voyageurs started on April 3, 1790 at the office of Notary Public Louis Chaboillez (in office 1787-1813), where they each sign a one-year contract with the merchant company Todd McGill & Co. The destination was unknown as they were accepting to travel wherever they were required to (North excluded). Even if the agreement entered into was for a one-year term only, they were contracted as “hyvernants” which meant they would spend the winter and make the return trip the next year. Continue reading
Since Thomas MacEntee announced his Genealogy Do-Over earlier this year, I’ve been glancing through his articles and told myself it could indeed be a good idea to start all over again. Continue reading