Frequently Asked Questions:
What software do
you use to create your genealogy charts?
MS-Paint to "draw" the chart, using the text tool for the
names and dates, and the line tool to draw the lines. HTML to
display the chart as an Image Map with embedded hyperlinks to preceding
or following charst. Photoshop to add transparency to the
blank areas of the charts\gif files, so that the background image shows
up behind the chart. I don't use any type of commercial Genealogy
software to create my pages. I prefer my own visual approach over their
databases or gedcom files.
Can you export your data to a gedcom or other database file so that I
can add your data to my database?
No; I share my data
online, and if you wish to add it to your own database, then I have no
problem with that, whatsoever, but it was just never part of my agenda to populate
other people's databases, and since my programming approach does not
generate exportable data, I have no method to provide such data in
exprtable/importable format. I'm just trying to document my own
genealogy, and let other Marcotte descendants find their place
in the larger family tree. Since many others do add my data to their
databases, gedcom files should be available elsewhere on the Internet
from those who prefer that approach.
What are your sources?
For the Marcotte family, the sources are almost always
posted near the bottom of the page, or on the page that precedes or
follows it. The genealogical dictionary of the Marcotte
Families, by father Jean Marcotte, published in 1983, in Montreal, by
Editions de l'Echo, is used for many branches, but many have been
corrected or updated by direct contact from immediate descendants of
said branches. Se also the "About" tab on my genealogy page. The
aforementioned dictionary is now out of print, but I am slowly
adding all of the names form that source into my charts.
Are you still adding to your charts, and may I send you my
family's data?
Yes; I continue to add about 1000 people per year to the
charts and the index. However, since my site is primarily a
single surname (Marcotte) genealogy site, I typically add all
individuals contributed surnamed Marcotte, along with their spouses (if
any), but for females, I generally stop with children of a non-Marcotte
surname after that first non-Marcotte generation, else I would have to
turn away most everyone. I will add dates for living
individuals, if asked, but highly recommend leaving off the dates
for minor children.
What is the purpose of displaying all those remotely-related
celebrity relations in your "Famous Cousins" page?
Novelty and self-amusement.
Are there Native Americans in the Marcotte bloodline?
Maybe. There are proven Native Americans in the
bloodline direct descendants of Jean-Baptiste Marcotte (son
of Jean-Francois "Petit Jean"), and very possibly others, but the
Marcotte family is a French family, not Native American. The Amerindian
blood in any such line would have originated from
a female spouse, or the ancestor of a female spouse of a
Marcotte. If you are not directly descended from that particular line
or another that has a Native American, then you can't claim Amerindian
ancestry just because a great-great-great-etc-aunt or -uncle married a
Native American. I am descended from one of Petit Jean's
other sons, Antoine Marcotte, so I have no Amerindian descent from
Jean-Baptiste's wife Marie Neskech, an Ottawa woman. I had to find mine
from another line that you may not share, even though you are a
Marcotte, too. The Y-DNA haplogroup for the Marcotte family
is R1b1b2a1, which is a very common Western European haplogroup, which
very nicely fits our Norman French origins.
Are all Marcottes descended from the same family?
All Marcotte families who originated in Canada have been
shown to be related and descend from Charles Marcotte of Fecamp,
Normandy, France. There are other branches of the Marcotte family in
the Picardy and the Nord-Pas-de-Calais regions of France and in Belgium
who are believed to be related, but the definitive connection has never
been found. Virtually all Marcotte families in the United
States derive from migrations of French-Canadian Marcotte descendants
of those same Fecamp roots.
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