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Maple Stars and Stripes: Your French-Canadian Genealogy Podcast show

Summary: WELCOME TO THE MAPLE STARS AND STRIPES DEBUT! Maple Stars and Stripes: Your French-Canadian Genealogy Podcast was created as a way to share tips and tricks that might make it easier to research your French-Canadian family here in America as well as to trace them back in Quebec. We’ll discuss ways to make it easier to move around in French-language records, especially if you’re not a native French speaker, as well as take a look at different record groups, repositories, history, geography, culture, and methodology particular to French-Canadian genealogy. Episode 001: Learn how a very simple pronunciation rule can help you find missing ancestors hiding in digital indexes. We also cover beginning steps to help find your ancestors' location back in Quebec, and we take an in-depth look at the Loiselle marriage index. There are also instructions on how YOU can contribute YOUR knowledge to help listeners of Maple Stars and Stripes. Visit the Show Notes for this episode at MapleStarsandStripes.com/1. Listen to the podcast by clicking play on the player above or on the show notes page. Please keep in touch by subscribing to the blog on the left.