My Family's History: Ancestors of Albert St. Pierre

By Arthur L. Boudreault

After forty years of studying his family's history, Art Boudreault wrote the first part which includes Albert St. Pierre's history. His mother's father was important in the author's life even though he died eleven years before the author was born. Art captured his mother's recollections from a remembered perspective since her father died when she was 12. Albert was tall, slender and apparently healthy until he succumbed to tuberculosis at the age of 39. There are good descriptions from his mother and her brothers about how the family survived the death of both parents. The author went back into history and tried to see how his ancestors lived through the past five centuries, going back as early as the 1530s in France. There are many photographs in this volume, even a present day photo of the home where an ancestor lived in 1600. The author has included copies of several drawings by his grandfather when he was in grammar and high school. A complete generation chart shows ten generations of the direct line of Albert St. Pierre. Art didn't find any "famous" people in his ancestry. They all lived and died frugally. Some participated in the wars with the British in Canada, others were forcibly removed from Acadia, the other American French settlement at what is now called Nova Scotia. Finally we see how the St. Pierre family immigrated to the U.S. in 1896. There was one ancestor whose lineage was difficult to trace. Art devoted a full chapter to the search, the family stories about her parents and his conclusion.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503113248
• ISBN13: 9781503113244
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.4" x 7.0"