Family Group Sheet for Willard A Fortin / Elsie Mae Fortin (F8357) m. 23 Nov 1929 : Our Family History

m. 23 Nov 1929

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Willard A Fortin

Male
Willard A Fortin

Birth	7 Nov 1903	Bay City, Bay, Michigan, USA
Death	30 Jun 1959	Bay City, Bay, Michigan, USA
Burial		Kawkawlin, Bay, Michigan, USA
Marriage	23 Nov 1929 [1]	Bay City, Bay, Michigan, USA [1]
Father	Narcisse Nelson Fortin \| F8453 Group Sheet
Mother	Rose Lajoie \| F8453 Group Sheet

Elsie Mae Fortin

Female
Elsie Mae Fortin

Birth	19 juin 1911	Standish, Arenac, Michigan, USA
Death	11 mars 2011	Bay City, Bay, Michigan, USA
Burial		Kawkawlin, Bay, Michigan, USA
Father
Mother

Madonna Louise Fortin

Female
Madonna Louise Fortin

Birth	11 Jul 1933	Bay City, Bay, Michigan, USA
Death	1 Dec 1963	Pontiac, Oakland, Michigan, USA
Burial		Kawkawlin, Bay, Michigan, USA
Spouse	Living \| F8359
Marriage

[S965673759] Michigan Department of Community Health, Division of Vital Records and Health Statistics; Lansing, MI, USA; Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952; Film: 10; Film Description: Bay (1928 - 1934).

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.