We are all cousins - Filteau - Fecteau - Facteau - Walker - Malley - Hache - Odegard - Blegen - Braaten - Ruff
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Welcome to our family's genealogy site - we went "live" on 1 Aug 2008 -
Your webmaster/host is Chuck Filteau. Please feel free to contact us in regard to the people you find in our databases. The data contained herein has been compiled over many years on a best effort basis. While we believe the family links that we have made to be correct, you should always do your own independant validation to verify your own ancestry. The good news is: the great majority of information has sources attached to them. Unfortunately, we probably do have some errors. Sometimes the errors are mine - because I transcribed the information incorrectly; and sometimes the sources I used may have had incorrect or unreliable information. In any case, those errors will remain unless YOU contact us and give/suggest corrections.
We are all related - cousins of one another.
The fact that you are visiting this site more than likely indicates that you are related to someone in one of our database.
Please, DO send us pictures and family stories. We will be glad to post them.
You will find three different TREEs on the "inside"
The FILTEAU tree has more than 87000 people who are blood relatives or have married into the Filteau - Fecteau - Facteau - Felteau - Fecto - Facto family throughout Quebec and into the USA and other regions of Canada. We are all descendants of Pierre Filteau and Gillette Savard who were married in Quebec City in 1666. There are also a large number of links to ancestors who lived in Acadia before it became Nova Scotia. I have spent more than 20 years gathering this information from a huge number of resources, including the Canadian census (1851, 1861.1871,1881, 1891, 1901 and 1911) and the US census (all years).
There are only a few hundred Filteau (and variations) people who are listed but NOT linked. PLEASE, if you know their parents, get in touch with us so that we can get them linked to their heritage.
The WALKER tree has more than 30000 people who are ancestors of (or otherwise related) to my wife's side of the family. She is from the New England area and her ancestors were early immigrants to the New World. She has more than 25 Mayflower ancestors; countless (well, almost countless) post 1066 European royal families (Plantagenet) and pre 1066 French (William the Conqueror and Charlemagne) and early Saxon families (Old King Cole); and even links (although they cannot with certainty be completely verified) to Mohammed the Prophet, Lady Godiva, and Marc Anthony. So please accept these links as being only probable, but they are fun to explore anyway.
The ODEGARD-BLEGEN tree documents the more than 20000 cousins and ancestors of my Norwegian mother - Hannah Odegard. This tree will, NO DOUBT, have some major updates in the near future; stay tuned... My great uncle - Helmer Blegen - spent almost his entire life documenting his/our family's heritage going back to the 1200s in Norway. One of his handwritten notes says "and the parchment says..." My cousin, Lola (Braaten) Ruff, has spent several years gathering information on the families of the many cousins who immigrated. Many Norwegian cousins are living in the Dakotas and the central part of Canada.
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