No comments about St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Leroy, North Dakota: Baptisms, marriages and burials, 1870-1932.

No comments about Catholic Connections.

No comments about St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Galveston, Texas, Baptismal, Confirmation, Marriage, and Death Records, 1860-1952.

No comments about Catholic Trails West: Founding Catholic Families of Pennsylvania/No 47.

No comments about Catholic Baptisms in Western Pennsylvania, 1799-1828: Father Peter Helbron's Greenburg Register.

No comments about French Huguenots: From Mediterranean Catholics to White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (American University Studies. Series IX, History, V. 80).

1 comments about Healing Your Family Tree.

1. This book gives a detailed account of how to approach sickness, emotional and psychological problems and other family dysfunctions by healing your family tree. The author has a firm grasp on the theology behind this relatively recent idea, and also has studied science, especially genetics, so he is able to give ways for us to understand how ancestral sin, a little bit like original sin, can have long-term effects on descendants. The book is in a question and answer format and very thorough.

2 comments about Papal Genealogy: The Families and Descendents of the Popes.

1. It's interesting to observe how dry academic language can take the juiciest gossip, the most outrageous of unfounded rumors, and the most gruesome tales of betrayal, debauchery, and degeneration and turn it into a tedious labor requiring considerable concentration just to keep track of the action.

   Weakened by unimaginative writing, this tome is primarily of interest for its wealth of genealogical detail. It includes stories of the popes from the tenth century to the nineteenth, but there has to be a more readable source for that material.




2. The book is well written with Genealogy trees interspersed for most of the Popes and their associated Clans.It covers a lot of territory so is lacking in real depth - some of the related trees are in separate parts of the book which is a bit hard to follow. Obviously the earliest Popes have the scantiest information, and perhaps a bit more of the background clan politics could have been added,feuds and the reasons for the feuds, but overall it is well researched and a great reference book to have on hand.Well recommended.

No comments about Saints Who Left Descendents and Their Ancestry.

2 comments about Guide to Quebec Catholic Parishes and Published Parish Marriage Records.

1. It was at a small book shop in Salt Lake City that I discovered this amazing little book. Perhaps it's "little" in dimension size, but it is a GIANT as a reference book.

   Mind you, I had several other reference books on Researching the Catholic Parishes of Quebec Province, but this little gem is so very different than all the others. No one but Jeanne SAUVE WHITE lists everyone who has worked on parish registers NEXT to the name of the parish itself. What a boon to researchers! This alone will save untold hours of unnecessary research.

   Additionally, critical information is included, such as: the Diocese in which the parishes are included. Every good Catholic researcher knows that diocesan records are worth their weight in gold, especially if the local parish register has met with a sorry demise. Catholic records in general are ALWAYS dupicated, at least once a year, and submitted to the local bishop--therefore the term "Bishopric Record"! I NEVER want to hear again, "the records were burnt in a church fire".

   While everyone doing serious research in a specific area should have a trustworthy map, Jeanne SAUVE WHITE goes above AND beyond by including City references and approximate locations of the parishes--a researcher's dream come true!

   My copy is "dog-eared" as I use it over and over again. For those wishing to purchase a copy of Jeanne SAUVE WHITE's book will be pleased to learn that the Genealogical Publishing Co. of Baltimore Maryland is about to put out an additional printing. Amazon.com is undoubtedly aware of this and will gladly supply your needs now with used copies and later on, those "hot-off-the-press"!!!

   Happy Hunting, Carol Ann Grenier Turner Menlo Park, Calif.




2. Hello all,
   I was searching for Quebec books and saw this out-of-print book. This is without a doubt the best book of its kind I have seen. I bought a thousand or so microfiche only to realize they didn't have the counties listed without taking each fiche out and reading the first page. With Jeanne's book I literally have worn it out and have to put a new binding on it from constant usage of her book! I cannot say enough about this great book.

   I will say.. I think she missed a couple towns... but errors happen to only those who do things~ GREAT GREAT book.. and no I have never met the gal.