WOW, too many Pelletiers in the world!!!

John, I'm not sure about any good free Canadian web sites, but I can say that Ancestry.com does have a tree of your family that you could copy.

It's here: http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/21457074/person/1087509385

Has photos as well. You could probably get in with a free trail and copy it down.

Thank you Jeff. I may just do that. Have you actually seen my family tree on ancestry.com, just curious?

I just did a quick search for George Pelletier and Emilie Bernier (along with dates). Noted that dtbrown55 has a tree in there with that family. I can't say how far down it goes, since those are living decedents, but looks like he has a nice tree researched above George Pelletier.

My grandkids are 1/4 French Canadian (Cote) going back to the 1600s. I have found a lot of information on www.yourfolks.com, which is a free search of marriage records and gives names, dates and places. Then their is a small charge for the full information and list of children. I have found it very helpful and confirmed information derived from other trees on Ancestry etc. I suspect the marriage records on Your Folks is extracted from the Drouin collection, about 14 million church records in Quebec. The only problem is the repetition of names. There are hundreds of Jean Baptiste Cotes:)
We have Pelletiers in our tree too, as well as most other Quebec family names.

PS The Drouin collection on Ancestry is fabulous - but I don't speak French. I've learned to pick out parents names and that's about all.

Thank you all for all of your input and suggestions. Now I have an idea on what to do and how to go about it... Mary, I too am related to the cote family on my grand mothers side. I speak Acadian french very well, so I'll be able to understand all the dit madames and dit monsieurs, lol... Thank you, or better said, merci beaucoup madame...

All those "dits" etc. really confuse this Texan. I'm convinced that ALL early French Canadian families are related. And cousins frequently married cousins. My grandkids have a 5th great-grandfather Cote who has 3 sons who are all 4th great-grandfathers! They weren't marrying 1st cousins, but more distant ones. The Your Folks website says that there are 687 Cote-Cote marriages over the last 350 years. Now that's a genealogy project.
My son-in-laws ancestors had a farm on Ile d'Orleams, and attended St. Pierre's Church. There is still a Cote ancestral farm nearby, and we visited last year. On the old church, is a plaque honoring the founding families, including the Cotes. I remember all the family names are in our tree. If you would like to have some pictures, send me your email and I will forward.
This is the lineage of my Cote grandkids:

Jean Cote (c.1603-1661) m. Anne Martin (1614-1684)
Jean Baptiste Cote (1644-1722) m. Marie Anne Couture (1652-1684)
Jean Baptiste Cote (1670-1736) m. Francoise Choret (1679-1755)
Jean Baptiste Cote ( 1697-1756) m. Genevieve Bernier (1697-1756)
Pierre-Etienne Cote (1724-1796) m Madeleine Deschenes (1761-1790)
Jean Baptiste Cote (1762-1841) m. Madeleine Dube (1761-1790
Charles Cote (1790-1827) m. Marie Therese Martel (1790-1892)
Joseph Sigfroy Cote (1820QC-?Maine) m.Angele Cote (maiden name)
(c.1810-?Maine)
Joseph WIlliam Cote (1845QC-1913 Maine) m. Elizabeth Violette
(1844-1888 Maine)
Frederick Alfred Vernon Cote (1886 Maine-1960 MA)
m. Delia Sawin-Couture (1887 MA-1958 MA)
Living Cote- their grandfather

I left out the "dits". See anything familiar? Mary

PS Celine Dion shares a Cote g-g-x? grandfather somewhere along the line. I think she is their 7th cousin.

None look familier Mary. At least not from my primitive stand point in all of this. I'm sure my Cote connection merges at some point because they too were Quebecers, or better said, Quebecois. My Grand Mother who was born in Remouski Quebec with roots to the Montreal/Quebec city/St. Laurence river areas was Yvonne (Ouellette) Pelletier and her Mother's maiden name was Cote. Her mother's name was Adeline (Cote) Ouellette...

Another interesting note, Jean Baptiste, or Joseph and Marie, or Mary seem to be very common names used and given to most French speaking societies in times past, especially to the Acadian/Quebecois families. We no longer name our children by those ancient Roman Catholic based names, especially by we Americanized French who seem to have very little interest in our Canadian roots anymore...It's sad

Not surpriding, we have Ouelettes in our tree too. I'll see if I can find a connection. I have international Ancestry so I can get the Canadian records.

My husband's cousin from NYC lives in Quebec City and married a Roberge. They also married Cotes and there are over a hundred interfamiliy marriages. Our kids are double cousins to them.
Anyway, they told us that all girls were baptized with the first name of Marie, but usually went by their middle name. Boys were often given Joseph for the same reason. It all makes genealogy challenging, since Marie Cote, Marie Anne Cote, and Anne Cote are probably the same person. Mary

Yes, it does make things challenging doesn't it, lol. And thank you very much for your help. I'm finding out that I too am possibly related again to my own Pelletier line, a couple of times over. I imagine that our world back then wasn't as populated as it is today and the gene pool was rather close back then and some even married into their own familes for reasons of survival and needed more children to work the farm, providing the local Priest and of course, the Bishop, for a price$, said it was ok ... My Ouellette/Cote connection starts by my Grand Mother, Yvonne (Ouellette) Pelletier who married my Grand Father, Jean Baptiste Pelletier in Lewiston Maine back in the mid 1930's. Her parents were, Adeline, or Aderlene(?) (Cote) Ouellette who Married, Everiste Ouellette... If I can be of more assistance, please let me know. Maybe some day I'll be able to help you as well. Just give me a holler, lol, and I'll do my best to help you. And yes, we are all connected in some way or another... Again, a big THANK YOU...

The 2 main problem with Catholic lines is:
1) everybody has to have a saints name first when they are baptists and 2) every brother and sister named a child for the grand parents on the off chance that there will be only one surviving to have children to pass the name on for another generation. That is why they have names like Joseph William. Jean (For St. John) Baptiste, or Mary Catherine for multiply 1st cousins, 2nd cousins, 3rd cousin etc.

The child might be know by the second name or a nick name that either focuses on the second name. Where as now, once births were recorded by Government officials, they would drop the saints name for the birth certificate and only have it on the baptismal record. Also, there is a better chance of survival so siblings are more willing to have different names feeling more confident that their parent's names will go on to another generation with only one of the grandchildren having it.