France Project Ancestors Cleanup Team

Profile managers: Isabelle Martin [send private message], Greg Lavoie [send private message], and France Project WikiTree [send private message]

Welcome to France Project Ancestors Cleanup Team

The French Ancestors Cleanup team is part of the France Project.

Team Leader Isabelle Martin

Team Members Roger LeBlanc | Greg Lavoie | Julien Cassaigne

Goals

• Provide correct, sourced and as complete as possible ancestries for migrating ancestors.
• Document and disconnect spurious ancestors.

Requirements

To join this team, it is necessary to:

• Be pre-1700 certified. See Pre-1700 Profiles.
• Demonstrate an ability to use French primary sources.

Tasks

• Identify profiles for deep ancestors needing work
• Find sources for ancestors.
• Fix profile Suggestions
• Cleanup and rewrite biographies.
• Merge duplicates
• Add profiles for family members and ancestors not yet on WikiTree
• Ancestors with uncertain or absent sources marked Uncertain
• Disproven ancestors disconnected, catalogued and categorized
• After disconnecting incorrect parents from an ancestor, please request PPP status for the profile in order to prevent the error from being repeated.

Dubious lines needing review

Below is a list of profiles whose parents and further ancestors appear dubious.

Oscar Philibert Cleanup

Attempted cleanup of the ancestry of Oscar Joseph Philibert, June 1, 2021.

1. Vivienne Bunel (1626-1699) Unsourced parents. - G2G posted
2. François Ligier (abt.1550-1598) Added note that parents are unsourced.
3. Paul Michel Dupont (abt.1569-1608) Poorly sourced, unsourced parents and grandparents.
4. Henriette Boullain (abt.1540-) Her parents should be unknown
5. Marsault Simard (abt.1575-1650) Last known ancestor in this line, yet has more ancestors added - checked, need to add note (see above)
6. René Racine (1577-aft.1628) has unsourced ancestors not mentioned by Fichier Origine (see above)
7. Jean Achon (abt.1610-1657) Parents are possible but not confirmed; research notes needed
8. Michelle Journel (abt.1580-bef.1630) Unsourced parents, not found elsewhere - noted on profile
9. Marthe Duclos (abt.1628-bef.1687) Unsourced parents - Marthe is only known by being named on marriage of son
10. Laurent Poitras (1618-1650) Unsourced parents added, there are no records for this family that could possibly name parents
11. Mathurin Chalifou (abt.1585-bef.1644) Unsourced parents, unaccounted for by Fichier Origine
12. Marie Gaborit (abt.1590-1644) Unsourced parents, unaccounted for by Fichier Origine
13. Jeanne Moreau (1595-1640) Unsourced and unlikely parents

Done (as of 1 June 2021)

1. Joseph Pierre Michaud (1581-1637) Disconnected parents with note
2. Pierre Saint-Denis (abt.1626-1686) Disconnected parents and PPP
3. Éloy Pelletier (abt.1563-abt.1620) Disconnected parents with note
4. Simon Pajot (1510-bef.1563) Disconnected parents
5. Marie Parmentier (abt.1620-) Disconnected parents
6. Yves Bernier (abt.1607-1656) Disconnected parents and PPP
7. Barbe Bourguignon (1624-) Disconnected parents, with note
8. Jean Bouffard (abt.1615-abt.1680) Disconnected parents, with note
9. Marie Aucouturier (abt.1630-abt.1680) Incorrectly grafted to the Couture family, disconnected with note
10. Marie Boillerot (1590-1667) Disconnected parents and protected
11. André Terrien (1611-1661) Disconnected parents, added note.
12. Pierre Campion (bef.1628-1695) Disconnected parents, added note
13. Mathieu (Paret) Paré (1595-1652) Disconnected parents, added note
14. Noël LeGrand (abt.1570-) Disconnected parents, added note
15. Jeanne Leroy (abt.1555-) Disconnected parents, added note

Lines lacking sources

The lines below are supposed correct but need sources and clean-up to look good:

• Catherine de Baillon's lineage clean-up - See special free-space page and https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/484463
• Jean Pierre Bondurant: Typically unsourced Huguenot profile claiming to be 28th great-grandson of Charlemagne. Sources are available for most of the mother's lineage, leading to some hope that there is a chance to clean this up.
• Jacques Guéret dit Dumont: Mainly poorly sourced ancestors leading to Pétronille de Montfort as a "gateway". This is apparently based on Francogene and a post at https://soc.genealogy.medieval.narkive.com/ (https://soc.genealogy.medieval.narkive.com/EYny1ATb/de-meherenc-de-montmirel-royal-gateway-new). Other source: Alain Contant "De Dumont à Bouchard de Méhérenc" MSGCF (Mémoires de la Société Généalogique Canadienne Française) vol. 52 no 2. p. 91-93. Fichier Origine covers up to Françoise Méhérenc's parents.
• Charlotte de Coppequesne. Many misnamed, unsourced profiles and duplicates in her ancestry.
• Julien Charles Sévigny Fichier Origine claims that Renaud de Sévigne is his grandfather but important information about his father is missing. FrancoGene does not accept the lineage. Father's profile is unsourced on WikiTree.

Other

• Catherine de Belleau: Tested maternal royal gateway claim and found the lineage problematic. See Jean de Goussencourt for research note. Also left note on paternal grandfather's profile about possible family connections.