Archive for June, 2010
The “Huron Carol” (or “‘Twas in the Moon of Wintertime”) is a Christmas hymn, written in 1643 by Jean de Brébeuf, a Christian missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons in Canada. Brébeuf wrote the lyrics in the native language of the Huron/Wendat people; the song’s original Huron title is “Jesous Ahatonhia” (“Jesus, he is born”). The song’s melody is a traditional French folk song, “Une Jeune Pucelle” (“A Young Maid”). The well known English lyrics were written in 1926 by Jesse Edgar Middleton. This version performed by Heather Dale, and sung in Wendat (Huron), French and English.
Many thousands of the descendants of the intrepid French men and women who came to North America in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries have found that French-Canadian genealogy is a fruitful and engrossing avocation. French-Canadian Sources provides detailed explanations about the major sources available to those seeking French-Canadian ancestors. This book is a six-year collaborative effort of the eight members of the French Canadian/Acadian genealogical Society of Wisconsin’s Publication Committee. The authors worked together to compile, revise, and update articles relating to research and sources that had been published in the association’s quarterly publication over a period of some fifteen years.