Hello Cousins, Is there anyone out there who is a descendant of Joseph Moses Rousseau and Laura Francis Maxwell? Josheph is a descendant of that clan of Travis...
Hello Cousins, I have had an interesting weekend and have met some new cousins and probably recruited a few new ones for our group. However, I have decided to...
Please, Stretch, don't delete me! I tried to go back and figure out how to add my first and last name to my user profile, but this pea-brain couldn't figure...
Sally & others, Here are the instructions for editing your profile. I don't know why they make it so complicated. Go to the RousseauCousins website and sign...
Stretch, How do you find the user profile??? Cousin Susan Rousseau...
Rous1965@...
Sep 17, 2002 7:44 pm
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... I need the directions, too. Thanks!...
kaloskie@...
Sep 17, 2002 7:59 pm
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... Hi Susan, I posted the instructions yesterday I believe. YOu should have received it via email. if not, look in the recent archives. I know the ...
Hi Stretch! I was looking into everyone's info and wondered why nobody put their picture in there besides not even having their name. Am I the only person to ...
Hello Cousins, Now I finally have time to tell you about the reunion I attended this past Sunday. This was a Rousseau Reunion. here is the line of Rousseaus to...
Stretch, So where was this reunion?? And from the beginings in Virginia and North Carolina, who went where? Did any of these folks have any information on...
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susan, the reunion was in Minden, TX which is just 10 miles sout of Henderson, which is about 25 miles south of Longview. Longview is on IH20 near the...
Hello cousins, a few of you ask me to send the instructions again, so here they are.Keep the updates coming. I deleted 3 members today. go to Rousseaucousins...
Susan, I'm still here in Tennessee trying to get my house built - my builder was shot this last weekend 5 times and is in critical condition. He was ambushed...
Hey, Stretch, I hope you haven't dropped me from the RousseauCousins. Thanks for your report on the reunion you attended. It was so interesting. I love...
Carmen Taylor
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Sep 20, 2002 4:51 am
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To Kaloskie, I was searching thru the group archives and found reference you had made to Suissa, France, as being possible place of origin of our Rousseaus. I...
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I remember seeing it on various searches I've done on familysearch and other genealogical databases. IIRC, you can find it if you do a Google search for...
Possibly from S?u?isa?, France, says Jack Buster's website, 2000. Then I have that the Reuben Shores family, who married into the Rousseaus, came from Nancy,...
Jerry&Linda Smetzer
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Is Suisse a French town??? That's also a way of spelling Switzerland in French or German, I think. Nancy is near the Swiss border, and at least some Hugeunot...
Right. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was part of a b-i-g clan of Rousseaus who emigrated to Geneva. So, I've wondered.... Cherilyn :) ... From: Katherine Cochrane ...
Suisse is indeed a small town north of Nancy and southeast of Metz in Lorraine. But then it is also the French word for Switzerland or Swiss. Using Kaloskie's...
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To Kaloskie, I thought Shores info indicated English origin, but have no info to prove either. Susan...
Rous1965@...
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The Shores family may well have been English, certainly the given names are generally English, and the earliest ancestors, John Shores and Sarah Sims, were...
While we are talking about Hillaire William R, I'll mention that "William" is an English name. The French for William would be "Guillaume." Of course this...
My personal theory (based on nothing but guesswork) is that his middle name was given to honor William of Orange, (the W in William & Mary, King William III of...
Here's a bit more info about William of Orange, who might have been the namesake of Hillaire Willaim Rousseau: William Stuart, Prince of Orange and King of...
hello cousins, I've been reading with interest the posting of late. todays postings made me think of something I have always wondered about. I never had heard...
Dear Stretch, I hope things are back to normal there at the firehouse in New Braunfels. I noticed that you guys had quite a river rise through town with the...
Hi Rhett, I was told that you are the expert on the Spruce/Rousseau side. I was wondering if you know who the indian was? I have been told for years that we ...