02 May Find my ancestors May 02, 2020
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Are you in the hunt?
Can Dancestors help you discover your family’s legacy? Now is a good as time as ever to take a look at what you’ve done or not done, to help your family have a sense of belonging to a bigger story. Let Dancestors help you discover your story! Reach out to me @ 214-914-3598
Ever hear of the King’s Daughters?
In the years of French Canada, there was a shortage of women to help tame the beastly qualities of men, and the men were taking up with Indian women, so the King decided to round up young girls either on the streets or from poor homes in France and send them to Quebec.
The King’s Daughters is a term used to refer to the approximately 800 young French women who immigrated to New France between 1663 and 1673 as part of a program sponsored by King Louis XIV of France. The program was designed to boost New France’s population both by encouraging male immigrants to settle there and by promoting marriage, family formation, and the birth of children. While women and girls certainly immigrated to New France both before and after this period, they were not considered to be filles du roi, as the term refers to women and girls who were actively recruited by the government and whose travel to the colony was paid for by the king. They were also occasionally known as the King’s Wards, where “wards” meant those under the guardianship of another.
The ships carrying the filles du roi would travel up the Saint Lawrence River, stopping first at Québec, then at Trois-Rivières, and lastly at Montréal. Because the prettiest of the girls would have the easiest time finding a husband, many of the immigrants settled in Québec, the first port of call.
It looks like the King decided he needed to do something similar in Louisiana as you can read in the following link:
https://i.hermoments.com/women-colonial-shaped/?as=6dap23844630089590548&utm_source=fb&utm_campaign=6dap23844630089590548&utm_medium=z28655
Do you have a French surname? Ever wonder if your good looks come from a Quebecois grandmother or a Montreal grandfather? Call Dancestors at 214-914-3598 and let’s find out!
Ultraviolet Light, Lysol, Injectables?
Here are some examples of what they used in 1918 to try and “cure” the Spanish Flu. Pe-Ru-NA, Iodine, Creosote (Tar), Lemons, Onions, Quinine, and many other ideas.
Show me the money!
During periods of low oil and gas prices, it’s not uncommon to have larger companies buying out the small operators who often run into trouble when prices drop. The small operators often ignore or don’t bother to clean up the mineral rights. The big companies come along and want to get those lease and royalty payments cleaned up, so you may hear from some search firm, about your being entitled some payments due to you from some investment your ancestor made almost a century ago. Let Dancestors help and you can avoid paying out a big share of the money to commission-based firms.
If your ancestor’s place of origin is in red in the map above, it may be that your ancestor had mineral rights. If they died intestate, then there is an even greater chance that there could be dollars waiting for you to claim them. Get with Dancestors Genealogy and let’s see if there was a Jed Clampett in your tree and see what you may be due!
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