ENTER THE ALLAN-CORMIER-ROBICHAUD-WOODFORD
BENNETT- EMBELTON-REDING-ROWE LABRYNTH

When I look at the work I've done in this project and count the hours of entering names into Reunion, I am in awe of the people who went before me in doing all the research on the Robichaud, Cormier and Woodford geneology.  Newly added are Amber's ancestors - with the help of Grandma Reding's files and cousin Kelly Bennett.

view Zaak's pedigree chart (740 kb) 
download pdf version (228 kb)
(the pages are lined up from top to bottom columns)

This has been a spiritual experience. When I consider that the earliest date that I have recorded for an ancestor is 1570 and I have one more generation with names earlier than this and it is only 15 generations back. At the point of 15 generations there are 32,766 people's genetic code, personal habits, choices, mannerisms, love, sin, and good looks that boil down to me. Rather astonishing. And it certainly doesn't stop there - every 25 years you go further back (approximately of course) this number doubles.

Some interesting ancestors that I discovered while doing this:

-Madokawondo, Chief of the Pentagouët Tribe, Supreme Chief of the Abénaquises tribes of the Kennebecasis River (circa 1640)
-Nicolas “Claude” de-la-Tour-de Saint-Etienne [Turgis] (1570 Paris, France - 1636 Cap-de-Sable, Acadie) participated in settling Port Royal, NS in 1609 with Pierre du Gua, Sieur de Monts.
-Jehan Thérriot appears six times in my lineage (no fear, three of his offspring then propagate many offspring into the mix many generations ago and the intermarriage happens several generations apart.
-French ancestors hail from such provinces as Poitou, Champaigne, Paris, Touraine, Cougnes, Picardie, LaRochelle, Mont-Saint-Vincent, Maine, Normandie, Grande-Chaussée, and Couperans-en-Brie.
-32 Josephs and 65 Maries appear in my family.
-The Woodforde patriarch, Thomas, came to New England in 1632 as a man-servant but was later one of the founders of Hartford, Connecticut.