Our Ancestors

We always hear stories about how our Ancestors came to a new world, very different from theirs. We heard that they came as farmers, or tradesmen, but we hardly ever hear or read about their private lives. For example we know that many of the villagers married with neighbours or someone in their village. But there had to be something else to that. Were the teens seeing each other before? Did they take strolls together? Did they meet secretly? Or perhaps they met at church or a gatherings. Did someone who happened to be helping build a house or a barn eye the pretty girl and just go ask the father for her hand? For instance Thomas Cormier son of Robert Cormier and Marie Peraud was born around 1636 he married around 1668 making him around 32 years ,now his bride Marie Madeleine Girouard was born around 1654 making her around 14 years old. How did it come to be that Thomas at the age of 32 married a 14 year old girl. Would there not have been girls more his age living nearby? Did he marry her because he wanted many children? Then it sure worked because they had a total of ten children. Michel Boudrot is another one he was born around 1600 got married around 1641 his bride to be was Michele Aucoin born around 1621, making her twenty one and him forty one years when they got married. Michel Forest born 1637 married around 1666 making him to be 29 his bride Marie Hebert said to be born around 1651 making her 15 years when they married. Can you imagine your daughter marrying so young? Well I can ,because my Mom got married at fourteen, but I would not like to see my children marrying at fourteen. Those girls must have been terrified, leaving their nice comfortable family atmosphere to live with a stranger. If you are not into genealogy perhaps you really never thought of this, I think of it and I wonder what else we don’t know about our ancestors. Were the men good to their women? Were the children brought up strict? Imagine all the work that had to be done and imagine when a child was sick and wonder how our ancestors dealt with everything. Now this blog is not only for the Acadians but for our Ancestors in general. The Mayflower folks, how did they cope when they came to a new land? Did they meet each other during the crossing? The German ,Polish, Italian ,Hungarians ,Africans, how did they cope? How did they adapt to their new homes? Did they all bring their traditions from the old country with them? I sure would like to hear answers to these questions, but alas, our ancestors have gone and so have their memories. Such a shame huh? I read my blog over again and I have come to the conclusion that not to avoid others asking these same questions, we should create diaries, stories, books, about our lives, our parents and our grandparents in order that someday someone somewhere will benefit from our research and stories. Now I would like to change the subject, I would like to add a few of my product which you can find in either of my stores

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Fishy Stories.

We hear stories of the big one that got away, well I am reading a book title It happened in NB, and I want share a couple of stories with you. In 1936 an article came out in the Evening Time Globe: A sickly looking codfish,pulled from the Atlantic waters yielded this certain merchant a pair of socks neatly folded and just like new. A mister Sparks while reading the article thought to himself, no one would believe this to be true. but he wasn't one of those doubters. For he knew that just last spring , Mister Melanson living a ways from Saint John,had caught a codfish which contained one sock. In the sock was a hard object thought at first to be a man's foot. When they checked it out they found that it was a monkey wrench for which the sock had been used for a container and eventually was dropped overboard from some ship. A Captain from the harbor said  Cod caught before a storm are usually full of stones  that the cod consume as ballast when the undertoe starts kicking up,and as many as seven stones as big as a man's fist have been found in one cod. Mister Melanson also heard the saying of fishermen, that cod are the retrievers of the deep and that if you drop an object big enough for them to swallow overboard like a wrench, a knife or gloves, just to keep on fishing, you will eventually get them back,unless someone else catches him first.

In the 1930 Fundy Fishermen newspaper  a clipping saying A Cod caught carrying Contraband. Swallowing a whole pint of liquor without removing the cork sounds like a Houdini feat but the trick was turned sometime recently by a pompous looking codfish,an inhabitant of the great Atlantic Ocean according to the lighthouse keeper Mister Thibodeaux. Mister Thibodeaux said that the fish was landed by two fishermen and brought to the wharf where  the half pint flask of liquor was removed from the fish's stomach intact. Maybe that codfish carried the liquor with him in case of emergency like seasickness, cod headaches etc.Evidently the paticular fish referred to did not believe in drinking at sea or the cork would have been removed. It has been rumored that the codfish in the Atlantic Ocean have caught on to the rum running racket and that they are carrying liquor to points along the eastern coast. I do hope you have liked these two fish stories which reminds me of the time my two brothers went fishing, my older brother threw his line into the water but as he was casting the line went back and caught my younger brother in the earlobe. He had to go have it removed and they he wrote an essay the title of it was " The biggest fish my brother ever caught".

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Who would want to know?

Have you ever wondered about what kind of lives your ancestors had? Take for instance long ago, how did they get around? They had to travel from place to place. We all know that many of our ancestors came to their new countries by ships or some kind of vessel. They could not cross the oceans by cars, there were no planes back then either. Imagine that you are back in the time of your ancestors who came to the new country. You are boarding some kind of ship or boat. You have a few personnel belongings with you. You are either leaving your homeland with your parents or with some friends. What is going through your mind at this time? Could they have thought to themselves hurray I am getting out of here? Or I wonder if there are any wild beasts there? They had to have been thinking about their new homes. Remember some of our ancestors were very young when they came to this country. Arriving at their destinations, it would have been all new to them, the people, the climate, the sceneries. Were they afraid? Or were they curious? If we think about these things, we have to also appreciate their courage in leaving their homeland to make new homes in mostly uncivilized lands. Once they arrived most of their travelling would have been by water and through beaten down paths in the woods. There were no paved highways trains back then. They also would have had to rely on horses, oxen, mules to use in their travels. And can you imagine an ancestor coming over from a warmer climate into some harsh winters? Can you imagine then surviving in blizzards? Many of them did not survive but those who did, learned ways to survive. They also learned to survive by using plants, and hunting and fishing for their food and growing gardens was a must. They raised animals for both work and for food. Back then Pork was their main meal,, and fish and shellfish . Now we cannot just go to the ocean or beaches and dig for clams or oysters or quahawgs, but back them can you imagine all the shellfish they would gather for their families and I am certain there were plenty of fish and shell fish around. Now many shellfish areas are polluted or contaminated it is such a shame. I remember when I was young, my family would all go to the beach and dig for clams, and it was so much fun, we would look for a hole like a pin hole and then we would dig and be careful not to break the shell of the clam and fill our pails. Then my Mom would steam the clams, mmm they sure were good. As the population grew our ancestors were learning survival, they helped each other build houses ,barns ,fences. Togetherness was very important back then, and sometimes I imagine the neighbors were quite far from each other. I wonder what they did when they first saw a bear or a coyote ? Can you imagine them seeing a big moose for the first time? They may have said “ Boy things grow big around here!” grin. Getting back to travelling during the winter many of our ancestors travelled on the frozen rivers and when the rivers thawed they travelled by boats. The native americans (once called Indians) were there way before our ancestors and they survived very well in the winters and summers. They taught a lot of their methods to many of our ancestors who then probably passed them down. Now the summer time, think about the summer time, the heat ,the black flies ,the mosquitoes? And our ancestors were surrounded by woods and water. Can you imagine the bites? I am itchy just thinking about it. I read somewhere that they used to put cold ashes all over their faces and hands and that protected them from the flies, mosquitoes etc. Can you imagine with our ancestors met their first redman?  Although they learned how to survive with their native american friends. We should be very proud of our ancestors no matter if they were white, black ,red or yellow. They suffered through many harrowing experiences that we could never imagine going through it ourselves. When you see a bee ,or mosquito buzzing around you, put yourself in your ancestors shoes. Then these little bees and mosquitos of today will be nothing at all.  Now changing the subject I want to share a few things with you. If you have time check out my new BootEEK, at http://www.zazzle.com/boot_eek*  or see what there is new at http://www.zazzle.com/allicor*  Have a great day. Allicor.

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On Line Dating

Ok I have found something else to blog about. Online dating, what do you know about it?

Well first of all, Online Dating is something like we used to call a blind date, you never know who you will meet. Online dating is done through the internet, or through cell phones. There are plenty of sites out there where a person can go join, some are free others are not. What you do is register at the one you choose ,the majority choose the free ones. You make something like a resume, what you like, what you do, what you are looking for and then you wait. Next you get replies or someone wanting to be your friend. You start chatting with that person, but sometimes things are not what they seem to be. I am speaking from experience and I will share it with you later on in this blog. Now anyone can tell you things about themselves which are not true. For example they can send you their picture. Wow he is handsome, or I can’t believe my eyes, she is gorgeous. And you talk and you talk some more, he tells you he has a big business, or has a yacht, she tells you she is a rich widow. I can’t believe it ! You will say, she is both rich and beautiful. Or wow he must have lots of money to own a yacht or have his own business. Beware! Be cautious. I must admit I went to an online dating site quite a while back, and I met this guy , he sent me a photo, he was not too bad looking. He lived not far away, so we decided to meet, I made sure he gave me the make of his car and his phone number which I verified and I marked all this information down ,put it on my table, before I left to meet him. We decided to meet in a place where there was a lot of people. Arriving there before him, I keep looking for this nice looking guy, according to his photo. All of a sudden this guy stopped at my table and said hello. I looked up at him, and I couldn’t believe my eyes, he looked to be about 88 years old or early 90s(remember this was quite a few years ago for me) and he was wearing these bright flashy yellow shorts. Gulp!. What in the world did I get myself into ? I asked myself. He sat down and he told he in the last couple of months he had been awful sick. Sick my foot, he sent me a photo of when he was about forty years old . I didn’t believe him that time. So much for my online dating with him. See what I mean? For all you know you could be talking with some kind of pervert or maybe even worse, but on the other hand you could meet someone who is in the same boat as yourself. I know many people who have met online and their relationship is going great. I know of some who have married and are still married. So if you go the online dating way, just be careful, make sure you never meet the person in a secluded place, meet in the open where there are other people. In a mall, in a coffee shop, at a restaurant are good spots. If there is a way to verify what they tell you, check it out first.

It is always better to be safe that to be sorry.

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