INDEX OF NAMES - Introductory Information
 

When doing names searches, remember to look for alternative spellings of names and English/French equivalents. For example, Jean and John, Jean and Jean Baptiste, Doucet and its variations, Mius, Meuse, and Muise, LeBlanc and White, LeJeune and Young. A few of the names are in Latin. The key is to be creative and look around.

As time permits, each name will have a hyperlink to the family group where the individual is shown as a child or as a parent, as appropriate.

The index consists of six columns. The explanation of the "short number" in Columns 5 and 6 is rather detailed, but understanding it will assist you in more quickly finding the individual or family data that you are looking for.

a. Columns 1 and 2 pertain to the primary individual that you are searching for. Column 1 is the surname and Column 2 is the first name, and middle name if provided. If the individual has more than one middle name, only the first middle name will be shown.  In some instances middle names have been shortened to fit within the column.

b. Columns 3 and 4 pertain to the "spouse" of the primary individual listed in Columns 1 and 2, if known, and contains the same information as Columns 1 and 2. For purposes of this index, the term "spouse" means an indiviudal who the primary individual was married to or had a non-marital relationship with.

c. Column 5 shows where the primary individual is located as a child.

d. Column 6 shows where the primary individual is located as a parent, if appropriate.

The number contained in columns 5 and 6 is referred to as the individual's "short number" (versus the long family number used for determining relationships and tracing one's ancestry). The short number looks like: 09-G41-010, 03-P47-001.05 or ME-Anse-02 (these examples are explained below). These numbers have no genealogical meaning and are strictly for internal use in finding individuals/families and for setting up the hyperlinks.

The short number consists of three parts separated by hyphens and is devised as follows:

a. The first part consists of two digits or the letters "ME". The two digits refer to the descendants of Germain or Pierre and show which generation the individual is in. The "ME" refers to the Miscellaneous Entries.

b. The second part consists of a letter and two digits or four letters. The letter and two digits represent a family group of descendants of Germain or Pierre, as follows:

G = Descendants of Germain Doucet, from Acadia (Nova Scotia)
P = Descendants of Pierre Doucet, from Alabama

The first digit after the G or P indicates which child of Germain or Pierre is the progenitor of the family group. The second digit is the sequential number of that child's child (i.e. grandchild of Germain or Pierre).

For the "G" entries, the first digit after the G represents:

1 = Pierre and Henriette Pelletret
2 = Marguerite and Abraham Dugas
3 = girl and Pierre LeJeune
4 = Germain and Marie Landry

For the "P" entries, the first digit after the P represents:

1 = Marie Marguerite Doucet - no descendants in the genealogical data
2 = Marie Louise Doucet and Jean Louis Fontenot
3 = Louise Doucet and Pierre Fontenot - no descendants in the genealogical data
4 = Pierre Doucet and Marie Therese Brignac
5 = Eulalie Doucet and Jacques Fontenot
6 = Marie Francoise Doucet - no descendants in the genealogical data

If the second part consists of four letters, this is the first four letters of the first name of the primary individual of each entry in the Miscellaneous Entries.

c. The third part consists of two or three digits numbers. The three digit numbers are a sequential number showing where the individual will be found within the family group of paragraph B. They will generally be in order. Occasionally the sequence number may have a letter (A, B, C, etc) after it indicating that a new family has been inserted between two existing families.

The two digit numbers are a sequential number of each primary individual within the Miscellaneous Entries.

d. In the Child entries column, the short number will be followed by a number such as ".01" showing the child's sequence within the family. An entry with an "s" after the ".01" (.01s) indicates a "spouse" of that child.

The following examples use the information shown above:

09-G41-010 is the family of Philippe Doucet and Helene LeBlanc. Philippe is a descendant of Germain, the son of the original Germain, and this family is found in the 9th generation of the original Germain's descendants.

03-P47-001.05 is Lastie Doucet. Lastie is the 5th child of Hubert Doucet and Adrienne LaFleur, is found in the 3nd generation of Pierre, and is married to Amelia DeVille.

ME-Anse-02 is in the Miscellaneous Entries and pertains to Anselm Doucet, married to Marie Anne DeVault or DeVeau. They are the parents of seven children.