Getting Ready for 2009

NNYACGS is excited about the up-coming celebrations for the Quadricentennial of Champlain's entrance into Lake Champlain in 1609.

There have been many meeting of the Quadricentennial Commitee and activities have been suggested to the Clinton County, NY Coordinator, Celine Paquette.

Our Society is partnering with the Vermont French-Canadian Genealogical Society in our project - They Walked With Champlain. We are going to research our family histories to discover which of our ancestors actually did walk with Samuel de Champlain in Acadia and Quebec. We will publish pdf versions of the trees on our website. For a list of original settlers go to our website at http://www.nnyacgs.com/quebecwalk.html. Each line contains the correct page from Tanguay showing the couple's marriage.

Our Society is also thinking about a heritage walk from church to church from Montreal down the Richilieu - the route of many of our ancestors.

So many ideas and so little time - only two years to go!