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6. Yeah, it's those dit names...

that really throw people for a loop!

I recently learned that my maiden name was something entirely different in France, and was not Degre' or anything close to it. It was Legoues.

Then on my mother's side, one of her ancestors, a Brillion, gave that name, which was his wife's surname, to their children. His surname was actually Regnier.

When I first started the family search stuff in 2007, it never occurred to me that my ancestors would do that sort of thing (those bastards! ha ha).

Plus, they didn't just come here and stay. They made many trips back and forth between Canada and France, then between Canada and Upstate NY, so that some kids were born in different places from their siblings.