Montigny/Riedell Genealogy Page

01/13/2025

Oooh... I've found some new (to me) resources/family trees created in Canada. Allegedly - I'm just starting to confirm this - Here's my 9th great grandfather, and first French family settler in Canada (following back the Heberts on Memere Montigny's side).

Is this your ancestor? Compare DNA and explore genealogy for Antoine (Hebert) Hébert born abt. 1621 France died 1693 Port-Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle-France including father + descendants + 7 photos + 12 genealogist comments + Y-chromosome DNA + more in the free family tree community.

11/27/2024

How cool that 23 & Me has confirmed my genealogy research! My Founding Ancestors stayed around Boston for about a minute before founding towns up and down the Connecticut River. Of those ancestors, the ones who got up to Quebec were kidnapped there from Deerfield and the area.

08/19/2024

A great story for a dark and stormy night like this! I re-upped my Newspapers.com subscription after hitting far too many Hints I couldn't follow in my research. I was NOT disappointed.

August 13, 1833: A thunder storm in upstate New York. The correspondent was standing in the door of the Post Office when Rev. Safford's druggist and book store "shivered as if a barrel of gun powder had been exploded in it." In the rubble were (my 5th great grandfather, maybe) William Safford and Ezra Eastman. Ezra was crying for help while William was shocked into silence.

Both appeared to have survived (especially if that was my 5th-great grampa Bill, since he died in 1857), though they were both badly burned and injured. What happened? "The lightning first struck the chimney and then passed in part down the stove pipe. The bricks were thrown from the chimney to a great distance, two were lodged on the roof of the building...60 or 70 feet distance." As for William and Ezra - "Not a piece of the pantaloons of either of them could be found larger than the palm of the hand, and their shoes were also literally torn to pieces and thrown from their feet."

Remember, kids! Stand away from the wood stove during a thunder storm!! :D

08/18/2024

Oh hey! Long time, no post!

So I'm returning to some frayed ends, and am looking into my 9th great-grandmother who *might* be my earliest relative born in America, Deliverance Langton in 1627. I'm curious about how she was was born in Springfield, MA to English parents, so I'm looking into her parents. Her father, George Langton, was born in England (she might have been too, looking at his timeline)...
..but he was a Hugenot. Yet again, another "English" line turning out to be French... 🤣🤣🤣

11/14/2023

Oh hey, long time no check! Anywho, I have been continuing to update the family tree in Ancestry, but more in bits and pieces.

So yeah, today I was indulging in some old newspapers, since I saw Jacob Edwards Library (in Southbridge) had some Southbridge papers. I was browsing through 1900, and found the attached clip.

WHAT?? SAY MORE!!!

Turner's Circus was a smaller one, but since they were in the Northeast, all the info I've found has been tangential to PT Barnum. My next aim is to review papers in Western Mass, so I may find more there. I'll let you know!!

(Newspaper clipping from July 1900 reading, "Alex Mominee has returned to this town after closing his engagement with Turner's Circus." My 2nd great grandfather was Alfred, and he did have a brother Alexander. Alex was married but had no children. Also, not much information on him before 1900... **Shakes first at the destroyed 1890 Census AGAIN**)