I believe my family was originally from France. Records in Louisiana, USA, indicate that Jean Marie Junot was born in France possibly a city named Belgard, and perhaps went to Mole St. Nicholas on the French Island of Santo Domingue (Saint Domingue). He had a son born about 1777 named Jean Baptiste Junot. There is conflicting information as to where Jean Baptiste was born. Some records indicate Cabo, France, but I do not believe there is or was a city by that name in France. I believe that Cabo is Spanish for Cape, and I believe Mole St. Nicholas is a cape.

If anyone can help guide me to places to look for information I would really appreciate it because I can not find any information so that I can trace my ancestors in France.

Thank you.
Karen

hi karen.....am back doing research after a long lapse. am still in the dark about out ancesters from France. have you been fortunate enough to locate any more info than we both had last time I corresponded with you????

Happy Hunting, Bettie Junot Weber in Metairie.

Unfortunately I have not been able to find anything in France. I have however found a gentleman in France willing to do research for me, but the infomation I provided is not enough.

I am trying to get the information that LDS has on a Junot (Juneau) in Santo Domingo (Hati).

Several years ago I ordered a microfilm from them and spent hours at the local LDS genealogy center looking at the mfilm and because it was all in French I couldn't read it. I told the man in France about that and he said if I could get a hard copy of the microfilm that it might help him know where to begin his research in France. Well my local Lafayette LDS genealogy center is no longer open and I have been trying to get in touch with the Opelousas center which is opened by appt only but I never can get anyone to answer the phone. The next center is in Baton Rouge but I work and so it makes it hard to be able to go there.

Have you ever used the LDS center in your area and have you ever looked up the information they have on this Junot (Juneau) from Santo Domingo?

Any help you can give me to send to my contact in France would be helpful and I would be willing to share what he finds.

Karen

Hello,

You may want to look on geneanet.org and look up the last name along with the place (I found one hit for Junot in Haiti!): http://www.geneanet.org/contact.php3?place=CAP%20FRANCAIS%20...

Also your LDS center should have a How To on doing research in French Documents (probably also available online). All Civil Records are written in a the same wording so it is really not as hard as it looks. Once you know how to read one, you can read most of them. I find it easier then US documents but a. I am French and b. I have been working on these for the last 10 years.

Hope this helps.

Blaise MARION

Thank you for the information. In fact, I found my contact in France on the Geneanet site.

I sent the link to him to see what he thinks about it.

Thanks again.
Karen

Thanks so much for the reply and info. will see what I can come up with. Bettie

karen...........do not know what LDS stands for but I have been using our library which has a very large genealogy section. did you read the board message from Blaise Marion? I'm going to ck out the site he referred to and see what I come up with.....will let you know if I find anything......Bettie

Bettie,

LDS is the genealogy site from the Church of the Latter Day Saints (LDS). To find it on the internet, go to Family Search.org. Here is the address of the center nearest to you:
New Orleans Louisiana
5025 Cleveland Pl
Metairie, Jefferson, Louisiana, United States
Phone: 504-885-3936
Hours: T-Th 9am-12pm.
Closed: Holidays

The genealogy site that Blaise Marion was talking about is actually the site where I met the man in France that is willing to help me.

I looked up the information that Mr. Marion supplied and I plan on contacting the submitter to see if he reads/writes in English. I also forwared the link to my contact in France to see if he would read and interpret the French part for me.

I will let you know what I find out.

Karen

You might also try downloading Family Tree Builder (its Free!!!) from www.myheritage.com It has a powerful search engine that searches about 1800 databases.

Regards

Lee Hill