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Subject: Re: France needs help finding descendants of "Marceau or Marceaux Family
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 18:47:33 EST


Hi List members,
The e-mail *below was to me from the Acadian Research List that I am on and
I thought that I would share it with this list. Please read below to see if
any of you could help the people in France find descendants of the
Marceau/Marceaux family.
Thanks,
Linda Louviere d'Amours

*Subject: We Need Help


Members

We have an e-mail from France. They need help finding a person. Please
read
and advise.
Earl

Dear Mr. Gates:

I am hoping that some of your members may be interested in helping with a
request
we have received at our office, Le Centre International, the International
Trade Division
of the Lafayette Consolidated Government.

This request comes from the City of Chartres, France. They wrote to the
French
Ambassador in Washington, D.C., who passed it on to the French Consul
General in
New Orleans, who in turn passed it on to us.

Here is a brief translation of the request:

Dear Mr. Ambassador:

The City of Chartres would like to hold some festive cultural events during
the spring of 2006,
centered around General Marceau, native son of Chartres, who died in 1796
at
the age of 27.

For this, we are trying to find some of his descendants, whose surname
changed from the
spelling "Marceau" to "Marceaux" and who are located in Louisiana. We
believe that among
these descendants there is a pastor, the Reverend Sydney Marceaux.

We would like to know whether it would be possible to help us so that we
can
include those
descendants who are now far away from Chartres.

Hoping that you may be able to help us find some traces, we send you our
best regards.

Nadine BERTHELIER
Director of Arts, Cultural and Historical Heritage

We would very much appreciate any information you and your members might be
able to provide. We will be happy to translate any information into French
and send
it to Chartres.

Sincerely,

Ann Morgan
Le Centre International
735 Jefferson Street
Lafayette, LA 70501
Tel: (337) 291-5474
FAX: (337) 291-5480


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