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Kathy WATSON*,
Florence's daughter,
had her DNA analyzed, June 2017, at Ancestry.ca and we started searching for 'cousins'.
With their help we researched these cousins to identify a common ancestor.
With a set of common ancestors we worked our way back down the tree to
identify possible 'suspects'. It took a year of research to identify a family
name and in July, 2018, we discovered Florence's birth transcript at the Ontario Archives.
Florence was born Jean SAUNDERS on November 24, 1915 in
Port Elgin and her mother was listed as Eupemia
SAUNDERS . Click on
SAUNDERS
to see Kathy's biological family on her maternal grandmother's side.
We appreciate the help of Patricia ROE,
who set us off in the right direction with her comment "you might look at
the McLEODs in Kincardine Township, Bruce County". You can
find Paricia's connection in the
GRAHAM
Family Journal.
Unfortunately the
father was not named on the birth transcript, so our search continues ......
Update; September 1, 2021
Several DNA connections have led us to Rene LEFEBVRE, b 1891 in Montreal, who was living in Port
Elgin in 1915 (the year Florence was born). Rene joined the armed forces in
1917 and came back to Port Elgin after the war and worked at the
Stevens-Hepner Brush Factory. In 1921 Rene married Pheobe
FINK nee DANHOUSER, recently widowed with three children who lived in
Southampton, Ontario. They subsaquently moved to Toronto where in
1942, he and Pheobe where living at 89 Lindsay Ave. I have reason to belive
Rene and Pheobe had a caughter Yvette while in Toronto.
In an effort to confirm DNA connections for Rene I have created a
LEFEBVRE Family Journal.
Please note, this is a work in progress and not all the
connetions have been proven. I am open to any and all, questions, comments
and corrections, Case.
Click on the underlined to see Pedirgee Charts
and Family Journals.
Surname with asteriisk (*) denotes connection
to our Ancestors on our Home
Page.
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