Multiple Different People Merged Into One Françoise Gaudet

Dave, I contacted a few of her managers, did you send this message to her specific managers, or is this just a general message that goes out to everyone? Since I'm not upgraded, I miss a lot of what I can and cannot do, and what my access is. Thanks, Barbara

I'm a collaborator on that profile. Let me know what I can do to help.

Marsha, I have sent messages to Neal RIgney, Reno Rossignol, Darek DeFreece, John Moyhihan, Evan Dicharry & Loralie Forward so far. If you want to start merging 'my' Francoise go ahead and initiate it. put her name in and you will see over 20 that are the same person, although I'm not getting where someone came up with 2 other husbands for her (Jean Mercier & Dominique Garaut), but any help that you can give with merging her profiles would be great. Thanks, Barbara

Barbara, can you send a URL list of all of the Francoise Gaudet's that you are trying to merge?

I would send them if I knew how to get them. Where do I find the URL's on them? Are they on the profile somewhere? I feel like such a dummy.

This site shows two husbands for Francoise Gaudet:
http://larryvoyer.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I71924&t...

As does this one:
http://www.acadian-home.org/ancestorsacadian.html

"The largest Acadian family began with one man, Daniel LeBlanc, who was born in France about 1626. Arriving in Acadia before 1650, sometime that year, he married Françoise Gaudet, widow of an unknown Mercier, daughter of Jean Gaudet and his first wife whose name is unknown."

This profile that we are discussing right now has 2 Daniel husbands and 3 Jean husbands, so at least we are making progress. But it still says there are 17 other matches.
My acadian roots club on yahoo also tell me that she was married to a Mercier, so I guess we need to clean up both husbands. I think this is going to be time consuming but ultimately worth it.
If someone has Stephen White's book, we could get down to the facts fairly quickly.

Considering her profile showed over 60 matches before I started working on this branch a couple of months ago, I'd say that is great progress. The remaining matches may be from people who are just not interested in cooperating. Not sure what we can do about that unless and until they come around.

I did find someone with Stephen White's book, they are on my acadian roots club list.

"Barbara, in Stephen Whites DGFA page 983,
Francoise Gaudet daughter of JEAN, mother unknown, she was the widow of a Mercier, first name unknown.
Went to the Gaudet page next page 666 Jean Gaudet born around 1575 first wife UNKNOWN,
daughter : Francoise born around 1623 married first MERCIER then Daniel LeBlanc.

Jean Gaudet married a second time to a Nicole Colleson.

I am quoting the administrator of the acadian roots club here. She does tons of research at the University of Moncton and knows Stephen White personally:

In Stephen White 's book DGFA he does have Jean Gaudet as the father of Francoise, and he does have she was a widow of one Mercier. NO mother listed for Francoise, and no first name for her Mercier husband.
I would go with Stephen White here."
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So, now what do with do with some of the undocumented imposters that are attached further up the line from Francoise Gaudet?

Is Jean Gaudet listed as having any wives? Just curious.

Peter:

Which Jean Gaudet are you referring to? Years of birth and or death would help, as would relationship to Françoise.

Are you unable to view this part of the tree? Click on the link to Françoise Gaudet under "Profiles mnentioned" on the left of this screen.

Francoise Gaudet's father (as I thought was implied by context).

I can see the tree on Geni, but Barbara found that Steven White has no mother listed for Francoise in the book. So there is an inconsistency between his book and our Geni tree. I was wondering what the book says about Jean Gaudet's wife or wives, if it lists any.

I have another source, in French, by Ginette Arpin, 2008 that I put through Babelfish, it says: " the Gaudet family originates in Mortaize, county of Loudunois, in the old province of Poitou, France. Jehan was born 1575, and came to Acadie between 1610 or 1614 with Charles de Biencourt. Before his departure from Mortaize, Jehan Gaudet married Marie Francoise Daussy. Of this marriage we know of only 3 children, Francoise, b. 1623, Denis, b. 1625, and Marie b 1633. They must have had other children, but as the registers of this time are lost, and the independent source of information on the former Acadian familis is the census of 1671, it is not possible to recall the deceased children before this census.
About 1639 Jehan Gaudet loses his first wife, Francoise Marie Daussy. About 1641 he married his second wife, Nicole Colleson, about 34 years old. Jehan was about 66, Nicole had been born in Paris in 1607. We do know of a son of this second marriage, Jehan, b 1643." So I think we need to clean her up, and her parents. And get some other people willing to help. GENI 'timed out' when I tried to look at Jehan's tree. Too many people in it. And it warned me that there are several sets of parents for some of them. So we ARE making progress! We just have to keep merging. BUT the big question remains, how to we 'unattach' incorrect, parents, spouse, and children? I don't think I know how, nor do I have to capacity to do it. Dave, I defer to you.

I can unattach some because, while I don't have all permissions, I can go into the profile and edit the relationships. I can delete the wrong ones. Tell me exactly which profile you want me to open and edit and which relationships you want deleted and I can do that.

Marsha, let me do some serious looking at some of these profiles. I know that some of them have been incorrectly merged, and I may well be guilty of some of that also. But I do know that some of them have several sets of parents, a generation or 2 down from Francoise Gaudet and Daniel Leblanc.