Welcome / BienvenueThis
site is for anyone
with a lineage or marriage connection to
Joseph Anthony Parent (1893-1978) and Dorthea Rebecca Frost (1906-1994).
In addition to an extensive genealogy database, we feature a
variety of useful resources. Coverage concentrates on
France, Québec, Denmark, and Utah,
but extends to other areas as well. These include
biographies, emigration narratives, photos, research
articles, and other materials to help you better understand
the people in your ancestry, their struggles, and ultimately
their life contributions to making us who we are.
The Parent and Lavoie lines are
linked to numerous prominent French-Canadian families,
including
Amyot,
Audet,
Baillargeon,
Baugis,
Bédard,
Bélanger,
Bergevin,
Bouchard,
Chabot,
Colombe,
Couture,
Crête,
Duprac,
Fillon,
Fiset,
Gagné,
Gaudin,
Glinel,
Godbout,
Huppé,
Jobin,
Leclerc,
Lemelin,
Magnan,
Marcoux,
Néron,
Paulet,
Pivain,
Savard,
Simard,
Tremblay,
Trudel,
Vachon,
Vézina and many others back to the origins of
Nouvelle-France and founding immigrants
Pierre Parent (1610-1698) married to
Jeanne Badeau (1631-1706) and
René de LaVoye (Lavoie) (1628-1696) with his wife
Anne Gaudin (1639-1678)
A collection of over 250 downloadable
photos, drawings, signatures, contracts, engravings, and maps directly related
to our Québec ancestors and their voyage to New-France from Europe.
The
Lavoie Famille
au Canada de 1650 à 1921
by Joseph A. Lavoie (1922), pdf file with complete text in
French; plus some
translated extracts into English here
Genealogy of those Parent family lines who moved to
Louisiana
New book,
Pierre Parent: Le Pioneer (in French) is available
from La Société de généalogie de Québec.
Guy Parent, the author, tells the many adventures of the
life of Pierre Parent who simultaneously worked the
trades of farmer, butcher, carrier and lime-burner, and
of Jeanne Badeau his wife and agent in his many
transactions as well as mother of their 18 children.
This dynamic and courageous family makes up the
principal pioneer ancestors for Parent family members in
Canada and the U.S.A. Pierre was a supplier in food and
building materials in Québec and
Beauport, associated in the same fields with various
business partners. The volume of 190 pages contains
geographical charts, a multitude of extracts of civil
and legal acts, and many accompanying bibliographical
sources.
The
Frost and
Jørgensen lines are among the earliest Danish
converts to Mormonism (the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints). They gathered in Copenhagen,
emigrating via Kiel, Altona, and Hamburg to England,
completing a rail crossing, then by sea to America via the
Liverpool to New Orleans Route, transferring to a
paddle-wheeler up the Mississippi
River to Council Bluffs in Iowa, and finally making the
arduous wagon trek across the vast plains and Rocky
Mountain continental divide to Utah--all prior to the
construction of the transcontinental railroad.
About
the Parent - Frost Families Organization
Au sujet de
l'organisation des
Familles de Parent et de Gel (Frost)
We are open to
anyone who wishes to contribute to the Parent-Frost Family
webpage, including additions and corrections. Email them to
webmaster Richard Nelson at
valyer@cox.net. For
sons, daughters, grandchildren and other close relations
of Joseph and Dorthea, there is also an email group. Prior
archived messages are online at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/parentfrost/
