Introducing “Izzy’s Ancestors”

Once again there have been some changes made to our web site.  Our main page contains the ramblings of Roger Lee Navarre (thus the new name “Roger’s Ramblings”) about genealogy in general and this site in particular.

My genealogy research has been centered around the ancestors and descendants of my family and the family of my wife, Sandra Sue Andrus Navarre.  While all the facts and figures contained in our Family Tree Database are quite interesting (especially to genealogy geeks such as myself), it can be a bit overwhelming.  As of this writing our database contains information about more than 34,000 parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins.  It is now my goal to take all the facts and convert it to some family history that we can all understand and appreciate.

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Counties Count

Many of my ancestors lived in the Wisconsin city of Green Bay.  Well … kind of.  Some of them lived in La Baye, a small trading post which was established on the Baie des Puants (French for The stinking Bay) in 1634 by Jean Nicolet.  In 1671, the Jesuits constructed a mission.  Fort La Baye was thus constructed in 1717.  The town of La Baye was incorporated in 1754.  At the end of the Seven Year War, it went under British control and in 1761 and was renamed Green Bay.  In our family database I try to use the current name of the city (in this case Green Bay) and add as a note something like "at this time Green Bay was known as La Baye."
 

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Our Contributers

A great many of our members have contributed information about their family: family histories, pictures, documents, newspaper articles, and so on.  I apologize in advance for those whom I fail to mention here.  I am trying to keep this article updated as I receive more contributions, but forgive me if I forget.

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This blog is the ramblings of Roger Lee Navarre about genealogy in general and about this site.

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