Summary
Recently I've found myself looking at 1880 census records for towns such as Greenville and Dexter to locate Franco-American families.
In the Greenville census, I see people named Brochu and Fecto and Gerow, and Lackida and Merso, Parrent and Turcott and Billdean (Bilodeau). They worked in the woods and on the railroad, for example.See the full content of this document
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Census Records Help Track Franco-Americans
Even the 1860 census had Lacady, Forty and Ronco (Rancourt) families. Forty could have been Fortier or Fortin, but in the census it really does look like Forty.
In Dexter, where my English-born ancestor, Alfred Hart, worked in the textile ...See the full content of this document
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