Les Nouvelles de la Famille Doucet NEWSLETTER OF LES DOUCET DU MONDE OCTOBER 2004 MESSAGE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL OFFICERS INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT Carol J. Doucet, President By Carol Doucet 103 South Ridgeway Drive, Lafayette, LA 70503 Phone (337) 984-6879 At the Doucet/Doucette reunion on August 2, 2004, E-Mail [email protected] Les Doucet du Monde signed up fourteen new members! We extend a warm welcome to all of them! Dean Doucet, Vice President It’s time to renew memberships for 2005. We are 2063 West Windsong, Apache Junction, AZ 85220 sending each member two membership/renewal forms. Phone (602) 982-3185 Use one for yourself and pass the second form on to a E-Mail [email protected] Doucet/Doucette cousin and ask them to join LDDM. We need to have more Doucet/Doucette Patricia Doucette Hayes, Secretary descendants become active and to participate in chapter 1 Lougheed Court activities. If more of you become active, participate in Aurora, Ontario, Canada L4G 5K8 chapter activities, send articles to the newsletter editor Phone (905) 727-8600 and send in your genealogy line to our web master, or E-Mail [email protected] add to the information which is already on our LDDM web site, Les Doucet du Monde will be able to serve Jacqueline Auclair, Treasurer Doucet/Doucette cousins even better. 20130 Cherry Lane, Saratoga, CA 95070 The genealogy information which you send in may Phone (408) 255-6319 be the very link that someone else has been needing. E-Mail [email protected] NEW ADDITIONS TO THE LDDM WEB SITE By Lou Doucet INTERNATIONALBOARD MEMBERS I am sure by now most of you have seen the new look of the LDDM web site. Over the summer it was Lucian R. Doucet redesigned to make it more user friendly. It is our goal to 1814 Ficus Point Drive, Melbourne, FL 32940 continue to improve and enhance it with new areas and Phone (321) 255-6819 improved features. E-Mail [email protected] Recently Dean has added over 10,000 new names to the Genealogy section. He is currently working on Samuel P. Doucet adding information on descendants of the daughter who 19455 Highway 102, Jennings, LA 70546 married Pierre LeJeune. After that he plans to add Phone (337) 824-7546 several more families and work on the indexing. E-Mail [email protected] Recently Lou has redesigned the CMA section and it is now called “CMA & Reunions”. It will contain photos Norman E. Doucette, Jr. and information on the Doucet/Doucette reunions and 9 Governor’s Ave., Apt. No. 1, Winchester, MA 01890 CMA events. Currently there are around 50 photos from Phone (781) 729-9133 (Continued on Page 2) E-Mail [email protected] NEWSLETTER EDITORS James Gaboury Carol & Eldine Doucet 1804 Shepherd Court, Apt. 209, Waukesha, WI 53186 103 South Ridgeway Drive, Lafayette, LA 70503 Phone (262) 446-0194 Phone (337) 984-5879 E-Mail [email protected] E-Mail [email protected] Deadlines for submitting material are: January 31 for George Doucette February issue, May 31 for June issue and September President, Acadian/Canadian Chapter 30 for October issue. 16 High St., Apt. 12, Bedford, NS, Canada B4A 1M1 WEB SITE Phone (902) 835-2060 Dean Doucet, Web Master E-Mail [email protected] Lucian Doucet, Co-Web Master http://www.doucetfamily.org OCTOBER 2004 Les Nouvelles de la Famille Doucet PAGE 1 New Additions (Continued from Page 1) the reunion in Nova Scotia. Information will be posted there for CMA 2009, as it is made available. The Association des Doucet de la Nouvelle Écosse, Another project we are working on is adding Glenda Doucet-Boudreau, President, hosted the photographs from the 1999 Reunion, in Louisiana, to the Doucet/Doucette reunion at l’Université Sainte-Anne in CMA & Reunion section. We will need some help with Church Point. About 850 were in attendance. On that. Photos of the events are needed. If you have any Sunday evening, following early registration, Marielle photos that you would like to share with others, let me Bourgeois, published genealogy author, lecturer and know. I would like to have them in digital format if professional researcher, spoke on the topic, “Where Did possible. They can be from digital camera (there were the Acadians Go Around 1755 and Where Did They not too many of them around in ’99), or they can be Settle in Quebec and Louisiana?” A wine and cheese scanned from photographs. One important thing is, do social followed along with a musical concert, “A Taste of not reduce them to low resolution. If you scan photos, Acadie” by Jeanne Doucet-Currie. On Monday, August scan them at 300 Dots Per Inch. If they come from a 2, the Mass, the conference by Stephen White – “Les digital camera, send them without any resizing or Doucet dans l”Acadie ancienne,” and the dance group modifications. You can email them to me, or burn them “La Baie en Joie” were the highlights of the day. to a CD and mail them. Also if you can identify any of the people in the photos please do so. Just give me the photo number (file name), and name the people from left to right. We hope that you enjoy the changes to the site. Please visit it and check out the photos and new additions to the Genealogy section. If you have any questions, about the web site, contact Dean at [email protected] or me at [email protected]. Please send Dean your genealogical line. If you have already submitted your family’s line, send in any updates which you may have. The information which you submit may be just what someone has been looking for. And please be patient! Some parts of our web site may not be working at times because Dean and Lou are continually working to add new information and keep the our fantastic Doucet family site as current as possible. Our LDDM booth seemed to have the most attention NOVA SCOTIA REUNION from the many visitors. People stopped by wanting information on their genealogical lines. The whole board On Sunday, August 1, 2004, the Fundy Restaurant and some of the spouses were kept busy answering in Digby, Nova Scotia was the setting for a luncheon questions, comparing family lines, selling LDDM t-shirts, attended by Les Doucet du Monde members, their doing computer searches and having visitors fill out families and guests. This provided an opportunity for the family charts, and taking pictures. thirty persons present to meet one another, chat and get LDDM gained fourteen new memberships at the to know one another before the Doucet/Doucette reunion and four more shortly after the reunion. reunion. Our Treasurer, Jackie Auclair, was interviewed by BBC reporter Lise Doucet (who is from New Brunswick) about her shirt which showed her Doucet line! Thanks to the following LDDM members for a great job at the reunion: Dean Doucet, Darlene Nielson, Jackie and Gary Auclair, Carol and Eldine Doucet, Jim Gaboury, Becky Lavergne, Lou and Doris Doucet, Norman and Linda Doucette, George and Bertha Doucette, Gaetan and Delores Doucet, Pat and Alan Hayes. Thanks are also due to l”Association des Doucet de la Nouvelle Écosse for making our reunion a most enjoyable one. Several Doucet cousins took advantage of their trip to Nova Scotia to visit historical sites, family cemeteries, genealogy centers and to enjoy the beautiful scenery of Acadie. OCTOBER 2004 Les Nouvelles de la Famille Doucet PAGE 2 Ceux parmis nous qui parlons français, nous avons I had a great time at the reunion meeting everyone. ressenti un autre grand plaisir – c’était de parler avec I spent some time helping at the table for the morning. I nos cousins Acadien dans la langue de Champlain et de had [many relatives and friends from Massachusetts and du Gua, de Razilly, de d’Aulnay et Denys, et de Germain Nova Scotia] for most of the weekend’s festivities. We Doucet, Sieur de La Verdure! met two sons and two daughters of the boat builder Roy Those of us who speak French had the added Doucette mentioned in the “Wooden Boat Articles.” My pleasure of communicating with our Acadian cousins in uncle and aunt enjoyed the speaker Marielle Bourgeois the language of Champlain and de Gua, of Razilly, from California. I did meet author Clive Doucet and his d’Aulnay and Denys, and of Germain Doucet, Sieur de wife from Ottawa at the local Chez Jean’s Dairy Twirl. La Verdure! He has two new books since Louisiana (1999). The first, “My Grandfathers Cape,” is about Clive as a young boy MORE PHOTOS OF THE REUNION and his grandfather growing up on Cape Breton and AND YOUR COMMENTS “Lost and Found in Acadie,” is an adult Clive sequel to “My Grandfather’s Cape.” Many Doucet cousins mentioned how they enjoyed ---Norman Doucette, Jr. the Doucet/Doucette reunion. Most felt that the reunion was too short and would have preferred two full days to . allow more time for visiting with Doucet cousins. These are a few of the comments received: The reunion was great. I think our kiosk was the busiest place on the convention floor. And our board was terrific with everyone pitching in from time to time. The remainder of our trip was wonderful and I loved Cheticamp where my ancestors hailed from in NS. Visited with Edmond Burns at the genealogy center at Trois Pignons and discussed genealogy with him. He and I have corresponded for years. We went to St. Joseph du Moine cemetery and church and every other headstone was a Doucet.