Including Early Pointe Coupée & Avoyelles Colonists
...and their roots in Canada, France, Germany...
Port of LaRochelle in Charente Maritime
3/9/2026: We'd love you to join us for our JOURNEYS IN GENEALOGY FALL 2026 tour to France! The tour is being offered by GBC Tours, David Campbell, proprietor. I will serve as genealogist on the tour. A description of the tour and all other info you'll need can be found on the GBC Tours website. Click on TOURS and select JOURNEYS IN GENEALOGY FALL 2026 from the drop-down. You'll need to read to the very bottom of the page to obtain all necessary info.
This tour visits some of the wonderful stops from our 2021 tour where we'll again visit towns covering ancestors of Normand, Brouillette, Moreau, Lemoine, Roy, Desselles, Gauthier, Brou, Trahan, Charrier, Juneau, Desautels, Goudeau, Nus dit Laventure, Fontenot, Joffrion, Rolland, Roy dit Chatellerault, Rabalais, Guillory, Saucier, Rachal, Acadian ancestor towns, etc. In addition, we've added several excellent new stops including Mont-Saint-Michel, some of the newly identified Bordelon/De Richou churches/sites, Quevillon (Couvillion) church site, Marcotte home as well as several sites focusing on our medieval direct ancestors (via the Bordelon/De Richou line) including the incredible Cite Plantagenet in Le Mans.
There are a limited number of seats available on the tour so you'll need to act quickly if you'd like to join us.
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THE EUROPEAN PEDIGREE OF GABRIEL LAURENT BORDELON: PROGENITOR OF THE LOUISIANA BORDELON FAMILY
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My Ancestor Surname List
Name Index List
My Paternal Great-Great-Grandparents:
Ovide Lemoine & Victoria Dufour
Joseph Lemoine & Azéma Lemoine
Augustin Couvillion & Florence Couvillion
Léon Fernand Guillory & Angeline Mayeux
My Maternal Great-Great-Grandparents:
Zenon Vincent Mayeux & Armide Moreau
Joseph Coco & Pauline Mayeux
Augustin Bordelon & Constance Marcotte
Adolph P. Rabalais & Javelli Rabalais
Researching Avoyelles Families in Louisiana, Canada and FranceMy book: "Long Journey Home: The Ancestry of the Bret, Coco, Drapeau, Goudeau, Grémillon and Tassin Families in France"
LAGNIAPPE SECTION
Civil War Pension Transcriptions
Avoyelles Soldiers in the American Revolution
(Pic above: Flags that flew over Louisiana during the American Revolution (Source: http://www.usskidd.com/battles-revolution.html)
Plaque - Pointe Coupée Militia 1779 - Plaque in Pointe Coupée
Document PageTombstone Pictures
Ancestor Photographs
My name is Cathy Lemoine Sturgell and I'd love to hear from you!
Last updated on 10-29-2025.
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