Family Group Sheet for Benjamin Charest / Caroline Collin (F14973) m. 16 Sep 1879 : Our Family History

m. 16 Sep 1879

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Benjamin Charest

Male
Benjamin Charest

Birth	3 Mar 1853	Matane, Matane, Quebec, Canada
Death	26 Mar 1931	Matane, Matane, Quebec, Canada
Burial
Marriage	16 Sep 1879	Matane, Québec, Canada
Father	Barthelemy Charest \| F3458 Group Sheet
Mother	Marie Elodie Coté \| F3458 Group Sheet

Caroline Collin

Female
Caroline Collin

Birth	6 Jan 1861	Matane, Quebec, Canada
Death	24 Nov 1940	Matane, Quebec, Canada
Burial
Father
Mother

Joseph Luc Odilon Charest

Male
Joseph Luc Odilon Charest

Birth	8 avr 1884	Québec
Baptism	9 avr 1884	Matane, Québec, Canada
Death	unknown
Burial
Spouse	Alma McKinnon \| F14664
Marriage	17 Jun 1907	Matane, Quebec, Canada

Benjamin Ulric Charest

Male
Benjamin Ulric Charest

Birth	9 fév 1886	Matane, Québec, Canada
Baptism	9 fév 1886	Matane, Québec, Canada
Death	16 Mar 1957	Girouxville, Alberta, Canada
Burial
Spouse	Marie Cora Gagné \| F14679
Marriage	10 Jan 1916	Matane, Quebec, Canada

Albert Alwin Ayotte Babin Beaulieu Bélanger Bergeron Bernier Bérubé Bossé Bouchard Boucher Bourgeois Bourgoin Broussard Caron Castonguay Chamberland Charest Charette Chassé Chouinard Cloutier Cormier Coté Cyr D'Amours Daigle Deschenes Desjardins Desrosiers Dionne Dubé Dubois Dufour Dugas Dumais Dumont Emond Fortin Fournier Gagné Gagnon Gauthier Gauthier dit Larouche Gauvin Graf Grandmaison Guéret dit Dumont Hébert Hudon dit Beaulieu Jean Labbé Labourlière dit Laplante Lagacé Lajoie Landry Larouche Lavoie Lebel LeBlanc Leclerc Lemieux Lepage Levasseur Lévesque Lizotte Madore Marquis Martin Michaud Mignier dit Lagacé Miville dit Deschênes Moreau Morin Morneau Nadeau Ouellet Ouellette Paradis Parent Pelletier Phocas dit Raymond Plourde Raedel Raymond Richard Rioux Rivard Robichaud Rossignol Rousseau Roy Roy dit Desjardins Saindon Saucier Schmidt Simard Sirois Sirois dit Duplessis Soucy St Laurent St Pierre St Pierre dit Dessaint Tardif Thériault Thibault Thibeault Thibodeau Tremblay Turcotte Vaillancourt Violette Wretlind Young

My earliest European ancestors in North America were probably Nicolas Marsolet and Louis Hébert. However, one of my 8th great-grandmothers, the wife of Philippe Mius d'Entremont, was a Native North American of the Mi'kmaq tribe. Unfortunately, there is uncertainty about her name. She may have been called Kjipuktuk. In modern times, the name Marie Coyote Blanc has been assigned to her, but there is no evidence that this was actually her name. Her ancestors would obviously been in North America long before Europeans arrived.

The French-Canadian lines of my family tree can be confirmed by literaly thousands of DNA links that support the family tree as mapped out. And, due to a couple of lucky DNA links to 3rd cousins in Sweden, with well-documented family trees of their own, I can extend my Swedish roots back several centuries. The German links have proved much more difficult, and in most cases, I have been unable to trace my German ancestors much further back in time than their arrival in North America.