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From: Mona Andrée Rainville <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R]Samuel de Champlain's will found by (Olga) Madeleine Jurgens née Connat
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:09:54 -0400
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Almost forgot...

Here is a link to a document concerning the 'minutier central" which
explains what this repository was, and when it was created.

Briefly, it started in 1929 and soon contained over 80 million
documents, unclassified, un-indexed, and for the most part illegible.

See: http://www.jstor.org/pss/830820

Cheers,

Mona

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> S-J wrote:
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>> Hi everyone:
>> Recently, when researching Abraham Martin (dit L'Ecossais), I found an
>> interesting but mystifying aside.
>> His daughter Marguerite is mentioned in Champlain's will.
>> It seems Champlain signed his will in Nov 1635, 2 months before his death.
>> Now this is where the real mystery comes in for me.
>> Apparently this will was only discovered in August 1959 by Olga Jurgens, a
>> historian and archivist, after 324 years !!! and was published in 1963.
>> Of course, my first thought was where had it been all those years, second
>> thought was where was it found, third was how was it found, etc etc,
>> I searched rootsweb Q-R archives, and others, and googled a lot but can't
>> find anything else about this discovery.
>> I figure an extraordinary discovery like this MUST have been big news in
>> 1959 and don't why I can't find answers to my questions.
>> Can anyone out there help me solve this mystery?
>> Shirley-Jean
>>
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